ANSWER TO LAST QUIZ...
Kim Gannon and Walter Kent were a song writing team, who had received many awards for their music during the 1940's. During the horror of World War II, they decided to try to corner the wartime 'hankie' market and come up with a real 'tear-jerker' song for the troops and their loved ones back home. When they managed to get popular crooner Bing Crosby to sing their song, they nailed the market down.
NAME THIS CHRISTMAS CAROL... 'I'll Be Home for Christmas.'
TODAY'S QUIZ...
The composer of today's Christmas Carol wrote the song for his father's Sunday school class to sing at the church's Thanksgiving service in 1857. A children's choir sang it in the church service and it was such a hit, they were asked to sing it again the following year. The composer had not bothered to put his name on the very catchy tune, so he didn't realize how popular his song had become. The composer finally got credit for his popular tune some 7 years later when the local paper printed the words to the song with the composer's name on it.
(Hint)...Even though this popular Christmas carol has been performed and recorded by Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Nat King Cole ... it might be the 1955 canine version by Don Clark which might be the most memorable.
NAME TODAY'S CHRISTMAS CAROL...
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