Fact #103132
When:
Short story:
Composer Leroy Anderson records his version of his own compoasition
Sleigh Ride, for Decca Records in the USA.
Full article:
Leroy Anderson : Sleigh Ride was one of the first things I wrote when I got out of the Army and moved up here to Wood bury, Connecticut.
Actually, I first came here in 1946; you may remember there was a housing shortage then, and my mother-in-law was living up here, had a cottage that was vacant, so since we had no other place to go, we packed our 14-month old daughter, plus the upright piano, and came on up here to Wood bury, and during that first summer that we were here, I started Fiddle Faddle, I didn't finish that until the following winter, and Sleigh Ride and Serenata.
And Sleigh Ride, I remember, was just an idea because, it was just a pictorial thing, it wasn't necessarily Christmas music, and it was written during the heat wave.
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Actually, I first came here in 1946; you may remember there was a housing shortage then, and my mother-in-law was living up here, had a cottage that was vacant, so since we had no other place to go, we packed our 14-month old daughter, plus the upright piano, and came on up here to Wood bury, and during that first summer that we were here, I started Fiddle Faddle, I didn't finish that until the following winter, and Sleigh Ride and Serenata.
And Sleigh Ride, I remember, was just an idea because, it was just a pictorial thing, it wasn't necessarily Christmas music, and it was written during the heat wave.