SLEIGH RIDE
JOHNNY MATHIS
SONGWRITERS: LEROY ANDERSON & MITCHELL PARISH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: MERRY CHRISTMAS JOHNNY MATHIS
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 1958
John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935)
is an American singer-songwriter of popular
music. Starting his career with singles of standard music,
he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums
achieving gold or platinum status and 73
making the Billboard charts to date. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy
Hall of Fame for three separate recordings.
Although frequently described as a romantic
singer, his discography includes traditional
pop, Brazilian and Spanish music,
soul,
rhythm and blues,
show tunes,
Tin Pan Alley,
soft rock,
blues, country music,
and even a few disco songs
for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis has also recorded six albums of Christmas music.
In a 1968 interview, Mathis cited Lena Horne,
Nat King Cole,
and Bing Crosby among his musical influences.
Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album by American pop singer Johnny
Mathis and was released by Columbia Records
on October 6, 1958. The selections are a mix of traditional Christmas carols ("Silent Night",
"O Holy Night",
"The First Noel")
and holiday hits ("The
Christmas Song", "White
Christmas", "Silver Bells").
The album debuted on Billboard magazine's list of the 25 Best-Selling
Pop LPs in the US in its December 15, 1958,
issue and got as high as number three during its initial four-week run. It made
additional appearances there each holiday season from 1959 to 1962 and on the
magazine's Christmas Albums and Pop Catalog Albums charts in subsequent years. It
received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the US in December 1960 and in 2013
ranked as one of the top selling Christmas albums of all time with five million
copies sold.
Four songs from the album – "Winter Wonderland",
"Blue
Christmas", "White
Christmas", and "Sleigh Ride"
– were also released on the EP Merry Christmas, Vol. 1, which reached number two during the 1958
holiday season and number seven the following year on the magazine's
Best-Selling Pop EPs chart. "Winter Wonderland" also spent three
weeks on the UK singles chart, where his recording peaked at number 17 over the
course of three weeks that began on Christmas Day 1958.
The album was initially released only in the
monaural format but became available in stereo in 1959. It was issued in the UK
by Fontana Records and was later reissued in 1962 with a different cover both there and
in the US. The original cover was used for compact disc pressings, the first of
which was in 1984, and an edition featuring two bonus tracks was released on
September 16, 2003. The 2015 Mathis compilation The Complete Christmas Collection 1958–2010,
a 3-CD set on the Real Gone Music label, also includes the album in its track
list.
Just hear those
sleigh bells jingle-ing, ring-ting-tingle-ing too
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling "You Hoo"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Giddy-up giddy-up
giddy-up let's go, Let's look at the show
We're riding in a wonderland of snow
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up it's grand, Just holding your hand
We're gliding along with a song of a wintery fairy land
Our cheeks are nice
and rosy and comfy cozy are we
We've snuggled close together like two birds of a feather would be
Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
There's a birthday
party at the home of Farmer Gray
It'll be the perfect ending of a perfect day
We'll be singing the songs we love to sing without a single stop
At the fireplace where we'll watch the chestnuts pop
Pop! Pop!
Pop!
There's a happy feeling
nothing in the world can buy
When they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie
It'll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and Ives
These wonderful things are the things we remember all through our
li-ives
These wonderful things are the things we remember all through our lives
Just hear those
sleigh bells jingle-ing , ring-ting-tingle-ing too
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling "You Hoo"
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Giddy-up giddy-up
giddy-up let's go, Let's look at the show
We're riding in a wonderland of snow-ow
Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up it's grand, Just holding your hand
We're gliding along with a song of a wintery fairy land
Nice and rosy and
comfy cozy are we
We've snuggled close together like two birds of a feather would be
Let's take that road before us and sing a chorus or two
Come on, it's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you
Lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with
Lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with (fade).
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