Happy Birthday, Habitica! Wear these Outrageous Party Robes to celebrate this wonderful day. These were available to purchase for 4 gems each. (The Seasonal Shopkeepers also displayed the current year's class gear for all classes, but would only sell it to members of the appropriate class.)Ģ020-2021 Quests The shop stocked the two winter quests from 2013-2014, Trapper Santa, a boss quest, and Find the Cub, a collection quest. It offered the Special Class Gear from previous Winter Wonderlands for 1 gem for each piece, except for the Mage weapons, which cost 2 gems each. These robes appear under the "Special" category of the Equipment tab of the Inventory.Ģ020-2021 Seasonal Shop The Seasonal Shop was open for the duration of Winter Wonderland 2020-2021. They do not provide any bonus to character stats and are not an advisable Battle Gear choice in comparison to other armor. Party robes were available in the Rewards column of the Tasks page for 0 Gold. Other users received the Silly, Ridiculous, Whimsical, Fanciful, Outlandish, Outrageous, or Extravagant Party Robes according to the event item sequences. Users who had joined after Janureceived the ever-handsome Absurd Party Robes. Party robes were made available on Januto celebrate the Habitica Birthday Bash during the Winter Wonderland world event. Woolworth dime store chain.īoth recordings receive regular air play on Radio Dismuke.ĭick Smith lived to see his song become a hit before the tuberculosis took his life on Septem– just one day prior to his 34th birthday.Happy Birthday, Habitica! Wear these Fanciful Party Robes to celebrate this wonderful day. Eclipse was an in-house bargain label sold through the British branch of the F. This recording is from an eight inch Eclipse record. I do not have a copy of either the Guy Lombardo or Ted Weems version – but I have included in this posting an exceptionally nice version from Great Britain recorded in January, 1935 by Harry Leader and His Band. Ted Weems recorded the song for Columbia on November 11 and it reached Billboard’s number 13 position. Lombardo’s recording was released in December and it quickly climbed to number 2 on the Billboard charts. Joey Nash’s performances on Richard Himber’s radio broadcasts brought the song to the attention of bandleader Guy Lombardo who recorded his own version for Decca the day following Himber’s recording session. (In those days, before tape recording, a rendition had to be faultless from start to end: if not, you had to do it again – and again.) It was a perfect performance…” If something or someone fouled it up, well, that would be just too bad. They agreed, but it would be a one-shot try. I so wanted to do this tune, I asked the band, as a favor to me, to try for a master. Himber had left the studio and the musicians were packing up. Due to technical difficulties, time had run out and the session ended without the song being made. I introduced “Winter Wonderland” on the air and on this Victor date the band and I were scheduled to record it. I learned Donaldson-Douglas-Gumble music publishers had accepted the tune and evidently forgot about its existence. He showed me a penciled manuscript and played a wheezy, home-made recording of “Winter Wonderland.” I liked the unique, sleigh bells-snowman romantic lyrics and its lovely melody. “A fan in my neighborhood, Bernie Smith, told me about a song his brother Dick, a patient in a Pennsylvania sanitarium, had co-authored with Felix Bernard. The song might well have been lost had it not come to the attention of Joey Nash, the vocalist for Richard Himber’s popular New York City society orchestra.ĭecades later in the 1970s Nash recalled: Smith took the lyrics to his friend, pianist Felix Bernard, who composed a tune to go with them. The song’s lyrics were written in early 1934 by an obscure song writer named Dick Smith after he observed children playing in the snow from his window in a Scranton, Pennsylvania sanitarium where he was sick with tuberculosis. The first recording of “Winter Wonderland” was this version presented here by Richard Himber And His Ritz Carleton Orchestra.
Here is the very first recording of “Winter Wonderland” and the story of how a now familiar and beloved holiday classic came close to having been overlooked and forgotten. Harry Leader And His Band Sam Browne, The Carlyle Cousins, vocal Richard Himber And His Ritz Carlton Orchestra Joey Nash, vocal
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