Winter Wonderland

Words and Music by Felix Bernard and Dick Smith

~ from the Musical Smart Set "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music"

With Russ Case and His Orchestra

and The Satisfiers

 

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio 2, New York City

Recording Time 2:37

 

Recorded August 01, 1946   ~  Matrix No. D6VB - 2569  Take 1 - 1A

Single release: RCA-78RPM-20-1968-B

Single release: RCA-45RPM 47-2969 ( 1949 )

Single Flip Side: "That Christmas Feeling"

US Chart Position No. 10  Chart Debut: December 28, 1946

 

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This perennial favorite was written in 1934 by Dick Smith and Felix Bernard.

One of the first recordings of "Winter Wonderland" was by Guy Lombardo and

His Royal Canadians (Decca 294) in 1934. The next year, Ted Weems and His Orchestra,

with vocal by Parker Gibbs, had a popular recording (Columbia 2976). Guy Lombardo

with the Andrews Sisters had a million-seller with "Winter Wonderland" (Decca 23722)

in 1946, as did Perry Como for RCA Victor (RCA 1968) that same year. Collective sales

of "Winter Wonderland" by all artists through the years has exceeded 45 million copies.

Perry Como recorded the song again in his 1959 RCA Victor stereophonic album

"Season's Greetings from Perry Como" LPM/LSP-2066.

 

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