“The little angels were looking at each other and smiling.” This led to the first line of the song, “Said the night wind to the little lamb…” “I saw two mothers with their babies in strollers,” Regney has said. Heading home from the studio one day, however, he was inspired. president.Ī record producer asked Regney to write a Christmas tune, but Regney was reluctant because of the commercialism of the holiday. The song was a reaction to the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis and meant as a plea for peace, written to her old neighbour and then U.S. Baker, born Gloria Adele Shain to a Jewish family in Brookline, Massachusetts, grew up next door to the Kennedys. The husband and wife team of Nöel Regney and Gloria Shayne Baker wrote Do You Hear What I Hear? in 1962.
The result was his second number one song that year. The lyrics to Let It Snow reminded him of his snowy home in Pennsylvania. The singer Vaughn Monroe had had a chart-topping hit that year with There! I’ve Said It Again and was looking to record something upbeat. They were a hot, up-and-coming songwriting team. By 1945, Cahn and Styne had already received two Oscar nominations for I’ve Heard That Song Before and I’ll Walk Alone. Some have joked that Cahn kept it that way because he was eager to get to the beach.įinding someone to sing Let It Snow was easy. In the end, the song was short - only 16 lines. They are too much in love to say goodbye. The two men started to trade stories about getting snowed in, and the result was a song about a couple trapped by a snowstorm who stayed warm by a fire. Now, why three “let it snows”? Why not two? Because three is a lyric. “Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, and since we’ve got no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” I said to Jule, “Why don’t we go down to the beach and cool off?” He said, “Why don’t we stay here and write a winter song?” I went to the typewriter. It was a hot summer day in Los Angeles, 1945, when lyricist Sammy Cahn (born Samuel Cohen to Galician Jewish parents), and composer Jule Styne (born Julius Stein to Ukrainian Jewish parents), came up with their song Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Reportedly, Cahn wanted to escape the office and head to the beach, but Styne sat down at the piano to work on a melody he thought sounded “cool” instead. So of course, they’re writing Christmas songs.” - Rob Bowman, Ethnomusicologist, York University Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! They’re writing all the love songs, they’re writing all the patriotic songs, they’re occasionally writing Easter songs. “From 1910 to 1940, popular music is dominated by Jewish composers. The Real Story Behind Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Stories that often began with the lives of Jewish immigrants arriving in North America, many who ended up in the music business. The new CBC documentary, Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas, explores the stories behind the world’s most beloved Christmas songs. While Jewish people made up only about three percent of North America's population around 1950, Jewish songwriters created more than 50 percent of the Christmas classics. What is less well-known is how many other Christmas songs were written by Jewish writers: The Christmas Song, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Silver Bells, Winter Wonderland, I’ll Be Home for Christmas and more. It is well-known that White Christmas was written by Irving Berlin who was Jewish.
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