This website will give you beginner’s sheet music for the piano for ‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail’: www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdVPE.asp?ppn=MN0049072 It costs $4.73, and so that you can be sure that you are buying the right music, they show you the first page of it and you will receive all three pages after you have made your purchase.
If you happen to have any other musicians in the family, they also sell sheet music for a multitude of other instruments.
‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail’ is one of the most popular Easter songs for children of all time and can often be heard on TV adverts around this time. It was composed in 1950 by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins. They were also the composers for ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘Here Comes Santa Claus’, which were recorded by Gene Autry. Because of the phenomenal success of these two songs, Autry was asked to record ‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail’, too.
Such was its success, that Nelson and Rollins also produced the alternative, non-Easter, lyrics that were used in Walt Disney’s ‘Peter Cottontail Plus Other Funny Bunnies and their Friends’ in 1963.
Steve Nelson was a radio producer, disc jockey and a singer; Jack Rollins (whose name was really Walter) was a musician who co-wrote many country songs for singers like George Jones, Hank Snow and Eddy Arnold. Besides the songs he wrote with Nelson (which also included ‘Frosty the Snowman’) he also wrote ‘Smokey the Bear’ for the public service mascot, Smokey Bear.
If you want to listen to ‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail’ and lots of other Easter songs, then visit this site: www.theholidayspot.com/easter/music/ There is a huge variety of them including many spiritual ones, and lots more fun ones, too.
If you happen to have any other musicians in the family, they also sell sheet music for a multitude of other instruments.
‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail’ is one of the most popular Easter songs for children of all time and can often be heard on TV adverts around this time. It was composed in 1950 by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins. They were also the composers for ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’ and ‘Here Comes Santa Claus’, which were recorded by Gene Autry. Because of the phenomenal success of these two songs, Autry was asked to record ‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail’, too.
Such was its success, that Nelson and Rollins also produced the alternative, non-Easter, lyrics that were used in Walt Disney’s ‘Peter Cottontail Plus Other Funny Bunnies and their Friends’ in 1963.
Steve Nelson was a radio producer, disc jockey and a singer; Jack Rollins (whose name was really Walter) was a musician who co-wrote many country songs for singers like George Jones, Hank Snow and Eddy Arnold. Besides the songs he wrote with Nelson (which also included ‘Frosty the Snowman’) he also wrote ‘Smokey the Bear’ for the public service mascot, Smokey Bear.
If you want to listen to ‘Here Comes Peter Cottontail’ and lots of other Easter songs, then visit this site: www.theholidayspot.com/easter/music/ There is a huge variety of them including many spiritual ones, and lots more fun ones, too.
