Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Each Christmas, you’re bound to hear Rat Pack star Dean Martin’s recording of Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow.  It gets a lot of seasonal play and has been featured in commercials.

Written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne in 1945, the song was first recorded by Vaughn Monroe that year, and reached number one on Billboard’s music chart in 1946.  More recently, the Vaughn Monroe recording was used in the first two Die Hard movies.

Dean Martin’s version is featured on his many Christmas albums including Christmas With Dino, My Christmas Album, My Kind Of Christmas, The Dean Martin Christmas Album and Season’s Greetings from Dean Martin, plus Christmas With The Rat Pack.  Although it’s one of the most popular songs every holiday season, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow never actually mentions Christmas. 

The song can be heard in the Dean Martin style at Christmas-time during Rat Pack shows performed by Las Vegas Rat Pack Impersonators.

A Rat Pack Star’s Number One Song

In 1964, the top of the charts were dominated by “The British Invasion” led by the Beatles, until they were displaced by a member of the Rat Pack Dean Martin on August 15th of that year.  Dean did it with the song that would become his signature, Everybody Loves Somebody. 

The song has some interesting history behind it.  For one thing, it had already been recorded by Frank Sinatra, among others.  It had been written way back in 1947, by Ken Lane and Irving Taylor.  And Dean recorded it to fill an album that was one song short, and to accomodate his piano player, Ken Lane.  But the recording worked out so well, it became the title song of the album.   And when it hit number one, Dean sent a telegram to Sinatra saying “That’s the way you do it”.

And the song played a role in a very funny segment on the Dean Martin Variety Show, when John Wayne guest starred with Dean, and performed a flawless lip-synch of Everybody Loves Somebody – Frank Sinatra’s version.