"Sleigh Ride" genre: Christmas
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	Instrumental by Steve W. Smith. Christmastime Classic composed in 1948.
	MP3.com CD: The Sound Of Christmas Vol. 1 - buy it! CD: The Sound Of Christmas   Label: Sted Records Credits: Produced by: Ed Davis & Steve W. Smith ASCAP A&R Direction: Ed Davis Manufactured & Distributed by Sted Records
	Story Behind the Song Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride" has the brisk charm of winter scene in some Currier and Ives print, the horse-drawn sleigh moving gaily over the snow to the sound of sleigh bells and the occasional crack of a whip. It has become a Christmastime classic, although Anderson claimed he composed it in the midst of a sweltering August heat wave in 1948. (Mitchell Parish added lyrics to Anderson's tune two years later.) The song was first performed by Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra, for whom Anderson was an arranger, and was such a success with its clip-clops and bells and horse whinnies that it had to be repeated immediately for the audience. "Sleigh Ride," like most Anderson Compositions - "The Typewriter" and "The Syncopated Clock" among them - is as American as apple pie, as popular as hot dogs.

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