This is an excerpt from a 1947 letter that Leroy Anderson wrote. This was before he wrote "Sleigh Ride" and "Blue Tango ... I took another sheet of manuscript paper, wrote down the first strain ...

Leroy Anderson was interviewed in ... you can't get with just a spoken word, because music has a wider range of expression. Q. Let's talk about "Sleigh Ride" in particular. When was "Sleigh ...

This ultra-percussive rendition of Leroy Anderson’s light orchestra standard is just magical. After Anderson composed it in 1948, Sleigh Ride quickly became a standard for light orchestral music.

No, this is a song about a sleigh ride: of eating pumpkin pie with pals, of feeling warm despite the cold. “Sleigh Ride,” originally conceived by Leroy Anderson, doesn’t want to make you ...