<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Christmas </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Meredith Willson </Td> </Tr> <P> "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson . The song was originally titled "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas". The song has been recorded by many artists, but was a hit for Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra on September 18, 1951, and released on RCA Victor as 47 - 4314 (45 rpm) and 20 - 4314 (78 rpm). Bing Crosby recorded a version on October 1, 1951, which was also widely played . </P> <P> A popular belief in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, holds that Willson wrote the song while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel . The song makes reference to a "tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well ..."; the park being Frost Park, directly across the road from the Grand Hotel, which still operates in a newer building on the same site as the old hotel . </P>

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