# Help me find this recorded version of "Frosty the Snowman"

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 2, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recorded-version-of-frosty-the-snowman/675321 "2013-12-02T23:53:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recorded-version-of-frosty-the-snowman/675321/1 "2013-12-02T23:53:21Z")

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A while ago, I’d occasionally hear a certain recording of “Frosty the Snowman” on the radio. It had someone (maybe several people?) singing it - I think it may have been someone fairly well-known, but I don’t remember. What I remember about the song was that throughout the song, there was a little counter-melody played in unison (well, same tune, many octaves apart) by a piccolo and a bass clarinet at the same time.

I realize that this isn’t much to go on, but can anyone help me find this?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recorded-version-of-frosty-the-snowman/675321/2 "2013-12-03T19:23:18Z")

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This it?  
[Burl Ives - Frosty The Snowman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EA5n8Ub5Q)

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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recorded-version-of-frosty-the-snowman/675321/3 "2013-12-03T19:37:32Z")

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This probably isn’t it but in searching I found [this amazing home made video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ-n4hawbeQ) of some teenagers lip-syncing to Harry Connick Jr’s version.

And by amazing, I mean super terrible.

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recorded-version-of-frosty-the-snowman/675321/4 "2013-12-03T19:45:05Z")

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Here’s a place that has a lot of different samples:

[http://singwenowell.com/songdetail.aspx?songSelected=17](http://singwenowell.com/songdetail.aspx?songSelected=17)

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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-recorded-version-of-frosty-the-snowman/675321/5 "2013-12-04T03:18:22Z")

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> [@Turble](#):
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> This it?  
> [Burl Ives - Frosty The Snowman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4EA5n8Ub5Q)

Hmm, that might be it, although that’s a bassoon rather than a bass clarinet. Maybe I was remembering wrong? Or else, there exists a version with a bass clarinet out there somewhere.