Music For The Ninth Day Of Christmas

Today's Christmas song, Frosty the Snowman, is contemporary and certainly secular in content. The song has a special place in OTR's heart because he and its co-writer, Walter E. "Jack" Rollins (1906-1973), are native ridge runners born in Keyser, West Virginia.  Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys recorded the song in 1950. It was an instant hit to be covered by scores of singers over the next sixty years. As an international star in song, print, film, and television, one could say that Frosty's influence has certainly not melted away over the years.

Readers who do not follow the Rollins link may be interested to know that he also wrote Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Smokey the Bear and a host of songs for several leading country music stars of the '50s and '60s.