MICHAEL BUBLÉ - IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS

MICHAEL BUBLÉ

SONGWRITER: MEREDITH WILLSON

COUNTRY: CANADAXITALY

ALBUM: CHRISTMAS

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG

YEAR: 2011

 

            Michael Steven Bublé OC OBC (IPA:/buːˈbleɪ/boo-BLAY; born September 9, 1975) is a Canadian-Italian singer, songwriter, and record producer. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the United Kingdom. He found a worldwide audience with his 2005 album It's Time as well as his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible – which reached number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200, the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and several European charts. Bublé's 2009 album Crazy Love debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 after three days of sales, and remained there for two weeks. It was also his fourth number one album on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart. His 2011 holiday album, Christmas, was in first place on the Billboard 200 for the final four weeks of 2011 and the first week of 2012, totalling five weeks atop the chart, it also made the top 5 in the United Kingdom. With this, Christmas became his third-consecutive number-one album on the chart. To Be Loved was released in April 2013. Bublé has sold over 40 million records worldwide, and won numerous awards, including four Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. Bublé is a dual citizen of Canada and Italy.

               "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. The song was originally titled "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas". The song has been recorded by many artists, but was a hit for Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra on September 18, 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.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Ev'rywhere you go

Take a look at 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

 

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

Sure it's Christmas once more.