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+ | In 1986, Johnny Mathis recorded the song for his album ''Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis''; this version gained popularity after its inclusion in the 1992 film ''[[Home Alone 2: Lost in New York]]''. Gradually, Mathis' recording began to receive wide radio airplay, and for the past several years this version has been a popular Christmas hit. |
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+ | :It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas |
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+ | :Ev'rywhere you go |
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+ | :Take a look in the five and ten |
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+ | :Glistening once again |
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+ | :With candy canes and silver lanes aglow |
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+ | :It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas |
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+ | :Toys in ev'ry store |
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+ | :But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be |
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+ | :On your own front door |
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+ | :A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots |
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+ | :Is the wish of Barney and Ben |
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+ | :Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk |
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+ | :Is the hope of Janice and Jen |
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+ | :And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again |
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+ | :It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas |
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+ | :Ev'rywhere you go |
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+ | :There's a tree in the Grand Hotel |
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+ | :One in the park as well |
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+ | :The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow |
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+ | :It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas |
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+ | :Soon the bells will start |
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+ | :And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing |
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+ | :Right within your heart |
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==References== |
==References== |
Revision as of 22:59, 10 September 2012
"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a classic Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. The song was originally titled "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas", and has been recorded by many artists, but was a hit by Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra on September 10, 1951 and released on RCA Victor as 47-4314 (45 rpm) and 20-4314 (78 rpm). Bing Crosby recorded a version on October 1, 1951 which was also widely played.
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Rumor
A popular but unproven belief in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia holds that Willson wrote the song while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel.[1] The song makes reference to a "tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well..."; the park being Frost Park, directly across the road from the Grand Hotel which still operates in Yarmouth. However Grand Hotel was a popular name used by many hotels in numerous towns and cities.
Here's Love
The song was later incorporated into the pre-Broadway version of the score of Willson's 1963 musical Here's Love and can be heard on that show's original cast recording, where it is sung in counterpoint to a new melody and lyric, "Pinecones and Holly Berries."
In 1986, Johnny Mathis recorded the song for his album Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis; this version gained popularity after its inclusion in the 1992 film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Gradually, Mathis' recording began to receive wide radio airplay, and for the past several years this version has been a popular Christmas hit.
Lyrics
- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
- Ev'rywhere you go
- Take a look in the five and ten
- Glistening once again
- With candy canes and silver lanes aglow
- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
- Toys in ev'ry store
- But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
- On your own front door
- A pair of hopalong boots and a pistol that shoots
- Is the wish of Barney and Ben
- Dolls that will talk and will go for a walk
- Is the hope of Janice and Jen
- And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again
- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
- Ev'rywhere you go
- There's a tree in the Grand Hotel
- One in the park as well
- The sturdy kind that doesn't mind the snow
- It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
- Soon the bells will start
- And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing
- Right within your heart