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[phoenixbrd]

@Cakers3  Delightful....another time and place so pure and innocent.  Very refreshing!

[Mary Bailey]

Hardrock Coco and Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1w-ktU1EzA

[QueenDanceALot]

Never heard this but it was fun!

Speaking of snowflakes, my favorite holiday commercial so far is this one, with a little girl, a snowglobe, and a Shostakovich waltz.  Oh, and a Lincoln. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdfkIFMwKQw

[Spurt]

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@sunshine45 wrote:

i have heard the rosemary clooney version of the song.

i have never seen that video and never remember "suzy snowflake" being a thing when i was growing up. have never heard of mr bingle either.

thanks @Cakers3 for sharing the video.....sweet.

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@sunshine45 @Cakers3

I remember the Rosemary Clooney version....never saw the video until a couple years ago when a local news station played it when we were going to have a rare dusting of possible snow......And Music Choice Classics used to play it too.......

Here's some history of the song from Wikipedia..........

A cartoon short based on the song was made in 1953 by Centaur Productions, with stop-motion animation created by Wah Ming Chang. It is annually shown during the Christmas season on WGN-TV in Chicago,[1] along with another production by Centaur, "Hardrock, Coco and Joe" and an early UPA version of "Frosty the Snowman". WJAC-TV in Johnstown, PA also runs these three cartoon shorts during the Christmas season.

Clooney later re-recorded the song for her 1978 Mistletoe Records album Christmas with Rosemary Clooney. It has been covered by other artists, most notably Soul Coughing in 1997.

[Cakers3]

@Spurt  I remember the song too and my memory of Suzy Snowflake about a decade or so after the release is probably that-of the song, not the video.

SInce it was local I don't really remember now when I first saw it.  It would have aired either before I was born or shortly after depending upon the year-I see from 1950 through 1953.

Still a cute and nostalgic little cartoon.

[Spurt]

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@Cakers3 wrote:

@Spurt  I remember the song too and my memory of Suzy Snowflake about a decade or so after the release is probably that-of the song, not the video.

SInce it was local I don't really remember now when I first saw it.  It would have aired either before I was born or shortly after depending upon the year-I see from 1950 through 1953.

Still a cute and nostalgic little cartoon.

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@Cakers3

Thank you for sharing the video....I love anything vintage to do with the Christmas season.....

[ID2]

The whole meaning of the word snowflake has changed. 

[Spurt]

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@ID2 wrote:

The whole meaning of the word snowflake has changed. 

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@ID2

Please dont go political which is against Forum Guidelines...cant we keep a nice happy thread..........

[tansy]

I don’t remember Suzy Snowflake at all.  How was it shown?  

ETA:  Sorry I missed few posts that answer my question.