Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd.It's the wail that launched a thousandВ tweets.ДЄ third of the way through 'A Star Is Born' вЂ“ in theaters today вЂ“В diffident waitress Ally (Lady Gaga) reluctantly takes the stage with country megastar Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) to perform 'Shallow,' a power ballad the lovebirdsВ co-wrote that has become the movie's unofficial theme song. And that we get to do it, again and again, each year only makes us fall in love with this song and this unlikely symbol of Christmas: the green, fuzzy Grinch. Then he sweetens ThatвЂ™s why this song is so fun, we can indulge our grinchy side while coming out the other end with a quick remembrance of why the end of December can feel so magical. Until he learns the magic of Christmas, the joy of togetherness, and the essence, really, of love. Likened to spoiled fruit, our friend the Grinch is just that. I wouldnвЂ™t touch you with a 39-and-a-half foot pole! But before he can learn his lesson, he must be mean. He disguises himself as Santa Claus, slithering around their houses, and achieves his goal only to later realize the error of his ways. But just in case: the green, fuzzy Grinch, who lives alone (with his dog) in a cave above the pleasant Whoville, decides to ruin Christmas by stealing all of the townspeopleвЂ™s presents and decorations. YouвЂ™ve probably seen it 100 times, yourself. And itвЂ™s likely aired every year, hundreds of times, on channels annually ever since. The television special first aired on CBS on December 18, 1966. But it was the GGGRRREAAAATTT Ravenscroft all along, who sang the Dr. Some also thought the singer might have been American singer, Tennessee Ernie Ford. Karloff got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Karloff (Born William Henry Pratt) was an English actor who starred as FrankensteinвЂ™s monster in the 1931 horror film, Frankenstein. Prior to receiving proper acknowledgment, the performance had been falsely credited to Boris Karloff, who narrated the special. The showвЂ™s soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children in 1968 and peaked at No. He died in 2005 after finally getting credit for his work in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. A longtime Disney employee, who did cartoon and theme park voice work, Ravenscroft began in the business in 1940. (You canвЂ™t make this stuff up.) For a long time, Ravenscroft went uncredited on the song. Notably, he also voiced Frosted FlakesвЂ™ Tony the Tiger for 50 years. The classic song was performed by singer, Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft, an American actor known for his bass voice. Army during World War II fighting the Nazis. He graduated in 1942 and served in the U.S.

To enroll, Hague was adopted by an eye surgeon associated with the university. His sister, who lived in Ohio, acquired him a musical scholarship at the University of Cincinnati. The music was written by Albert Hague, a German-American musician who was born in Berlin and escaped HitlerвЂ™s army by fleeing to Rome and then America in 1939. Seuss, whose work underwent some controversy recently, also wrote the song lyrics that accompanied the animated television version of the holiday special, which came out nearly a decade after the book. The legendary writer, who died at 87 in 1991, also created the drawing of the green, fuzzy Grinch.Дr. Seuss (born Theodor Seuss Geisel, but thatвЂ™s nowhere near as fun!) published the original storybook in 1957, right after The Cat in the Hat and right before The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.

SeussвЂ™ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the song has somehow since transcended even that transcendent cartoon classic show. Written for the 1966 cartoon special, Dr.

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