Christmas City of The North Parade Tonight

Tonight is the "Christmas City of the North Parade". Watch it tonight on TV if you don't want to stand in the cold...it is colder today and tonight. We don't have little ones here anymore, so we watch it from our warm house. In another state? Watch it live online at:

Northlandnewscenter.com

I absolutely love the song associated with our parade:

"Christmas City, Wonderful City, all dressed up in snow and mistletoe. Christmas City wonderful City, come this Christmas, to the Christmas City, I'll go...."

I wrote the post below in July when Merv Griffin passed away. He sang the song "Christmas City of The North" that is played when the parade goes down Superior Street, during all promos and throughout the parade. Someone today just put a comment on the post from July asking if anyone knows how to download the Christmas City song. I don't know how to go about finding it, let alone downloading it, except when I searched I found a 45 record of it on sale on E Bay. (It's bid is only 99 cents (pretty reasonable). If any of my readers know how to find and download the song, please comment here so that the reader that asked this can get an answer. I do know that it was written in 1962 by Don Peterson. If anyone can help, we thank you.

In Memory of Merv Griffin
Let's think of snow and Christmas, on this very warm Duluth day.
Merv Griffin passed away this week. Merv Griffin, creator of Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, talk show host and the singer of "Christmas City". What is "Christmas City", my out of state readers may ask? The "Christmas City" song is one that we hear every November during the promotions of our "Christmas City of The North" Parade and during the parade itself. The parade started in 1958 and is a tradition to kicking off the holiday season here every November. The song was written in 1962 by Hibbing native and New York songwriter Don Peterson. Merv Griffin lived in Ironwood, Michigan at one time and he was friends with the manager of the radio station that sponsored the parade. He recorded the song, as a favor (and for free), in a Duluth radio station. This was all before he was a big star and before his game shows. He had a talk show on TV in the 70's that I used to watch every day when I was home with our daughter, before the days of employment. I always enjoyed watching him along with another talk show, Mike Douglas. (Is Mike Douglas still living, never hear anything about him)?Merv will always be remembered by Duluthians for his "Christmas City" song, and every November when we hear it, we will think of Merv. (Sadly, he lost his battle with Prostate Cancer).

"Christmas City, Wonderful City, all dressed up in snow and mistletoe. Christmas City wonderful City, come this Christmas, to the Christmas City, I'll go...."

Oh...we had snow spotting the ground in Woodland this morning, and they are predicting flurries for the parade!