<Li> Michael Bublé with The Puppini Sisters (2011 - Deluxe Edition of Christmas) </Li> <P> In 1950, Little Golden Books published Frosty the Snow Man as a children's book, adapted by Annie North Bedford and illustrated by Corinne Malvern . </P> <P> In 1950, the UPA studio brought "Frosty" to life in a three - minute animated short which appears regularly on WGN - TV . This production included a bouncy, jazzy a cappella version of the song and a limited animation style reminiscent of UPA's Gerald McBoing - Boing . The short, filmed entirely in black - and - white, has been a perennial WGN - TV Christmas classic, and was broadcast on December 24 and 25, 1955, and every year since, as part of a WGN - TV children's programming retrospective, along with their two other short Christmas classics, "Suzy Snowflake" and "Hardrock, Coco and Joe ." The short had previously been telecast annually on WGN's The Bozo Show, "Ray Rayner and His Friends" and "Garfield Goose," along with its two other companion cartoons . The three cartoons are also a tradition on WJAC - TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which not only broadcasts the cartoons on their station, but also makes them available on their website . </P> <P> In 1969, Rankin / Bass produced a twenty - five - minute television special, Frosty the Snowman, featuring animation by Japanese studio Mushi Production, and the voices of comedians Jimmy Durante as the narrator, Billy De Wolfe as Professor Hinkle and Jackie Vernon as Frosty . Paul Frees and June Foray both also voice characters including Karen and Santa Claus in this animated special produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass . This was a story based on the discovery of Frosty the Snowman . Three sequels were produced, Frosty's Winter Wonderland (based upon the song "Winter Wonderland") in 1976, in which Frosty got married, and Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July in 1979, followed by The Legend of Frosty the Snowman in 2005 . CBS' own spiritual sequel, Frosty Returns, was broadcast in 1992 . </P>

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