This is an optimistic postwar song made popular by oldtime crooners, Perry Como and Bing Crosby.
It was written by Meredith Willson, who is much better known for “The Music Man.”
The song has a great opening line – so memorable that it gets quoted or paraphrased a lot. If you had a dollar for every TV anchor who will start a story with “It’s beginning to look a lot like…,” you’d be able to afford this holiday season.
But one line dates this song oh so well. “Take a look at the five and ten. It’s glistening once again.”
Ask your kids what a five and ten is.
We’ll go with the Bing Crosby version for lack of a better one.
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