Donald Gardner

The writer of the vacation perennial “All I’D LIKE for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,” Donald Yetter Gardner also enjoyed a profession composing contemporary church anthems. He had written his seasonal traditional in past due 1944 while a open public school music instructor in Smithtown, NY; while substituting for his wife, Doris, Gardner asked the course of grade-schoolers what they needed for Xmas, and practically all responded with lisps due to missing tooth. He had written the tune in about 50 % an hour. Documented by Spike Jones in 1948, “All I’D LIKE for Christmas Can be My Two Front side Teeth” marketed 1.3 million copies in only seven weeks, and was afterwards recorded by everyone from Nat Ruler Cole to George Strait to Mariah Carey. Gardner under no circumstances again liked a pop strike of any differentiation, but he do pen well-known spirituals, including “Guy Shall Not really Live By Loaf of bread By itself” and “O Provide Thanks Unto god, the father,” furthermore to directing cathedral choirs and creating community musical occasions. A member from the American Culture of Writers, Composers and Web publishers, he passed away in Boston on Sept 15, 2004, at age 91.