It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas/Johnny Mathis

"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". The song 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.

A popular but unproven belief in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia holds that Willson wrote the song while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel. 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.

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" 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 "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" 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 Top 10 Christmas hit. In 2009 the song was covered by Connie Talbot.

"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is featured in the DVD version of Very Merry Christmas Songs which is part of the Disney Sing Along Songs franchise.

In 2008 the song was used for television Christmas adverts for the UK supermarket Asda.

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• Christmas
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[fistteam]

Was this video after Johnny's stroke? Just wondering, as he very rarely moves his left arm & keeps his hand concealed most of the time on that side...

[CookiesDen2]

I'm not sure...it was a special broadcast in 1989 if I'm not mistaken.

[Marksman724]

Thanks

[CookiesDen2]

Thank you.

[Bradat26]

Nice version of the song. You can neveer go wrong with a tune sung by Mr. Mathis. How can anyone give this a thumbs donw???

[CookiesDen2]

Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it.

[physicalgrafiti12345]

Wow they get a new look and it slows down the videos so it barley loads, and they ask for feedback and even that breaks down.

[Bisiot88]

he is ducking scary lookin

[artiefun]

God only knows how much i love that man's voice

[ByakuganTaiChi]

Merry Christmas, Johnny Mathis! :D

[ByakuganTaiChi]

Merry Christmas, Johnny Mathis! :D

[AngelPrincess1835]

When I heard this at work, I thought it was David Hyde Pierce XD good song!