Who did this version of "Winter Wonderland?"

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It’s Christmas time again, and the radio stations are playing Christmas songs. There’s one version of Winter Wonderland that amuses me for a certain reason, and I’m trying to figure out who sung it so I can store the fact in my mental file. Here’s what I know:

-It’s sung by a woman.
-It was recently used at the end of an episode of How I Met Your Mother (I don’t watch the show, I overheard someone watching it).
-It contains the rare opening verse (“Over the ground lies a mantle of white…”)
-The song ends with the words “Walkin’ in a winter wonderland” sung over and over by a chorus, with the woman singing various phrases in between each one. One of these phrases is “in the cold, cold snow.”
-(This is the reason this version amuses me) During the second part of the rare opening verse (“Love knows no season…”), the background to the vocals is six notes repeated, going up and down, sounding like a demented circus organ or some sort of backdrop to an appearance by a murderous clown or somesort.

Anyone know the singer?

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I just looked it up (forgot Google- or in this case, Yahoo- is my friend), and I got a source which says it is the Eurythmics. Does sound like Annie Lennox’s voice. Is this correct?

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Yes. It is The Eurythmics.

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Track #2 on the first A Very Special Christmas CD, and should be available via the iTunes Music Store.

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<nitpick>

The name of the group is Eurythmics, not The Eurythmics.

I met Annie and Dave many years ago and was admonished for that when I was interviewing them. Made damn sure I left that part in the interview, too.

</nitpick>

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Annie Lennox was born on December 25.

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It’s on iTMS? Woo hoo! (Every year, I think about buying this CD, mainly for this track. However, I always put it down again, after remembering how much I dislike Whitney Houston’s rendition of “Do You Hear What I Hear”.)

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Thanks for the responses.