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"'Here Comes Peter Cottontail'" is a popular secular Easter song composed in 1949, by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins. They also wrote "Frosty the Snowman" in 1950. Mervin Shiner was the first person to record the song, on Decca Records in 1950. It reached #8 on Billboard Hot 100. The name 'Peter Cottontail' was used by a character in a 1914 Thornton Burgess book, but may not have been previously used to refer to the Easter Bunny.

Due to the immense popularity of Gene Autry's Christmas songs "Here Comes Santa Claus" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", Nelson and Rollins asked Autry to record their song. His 1950 version was on the Columbia label and peaked at number 3 on the U.S 'Billboard' Hot Country Singles chart and at number 5 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100 chart.

Nelson and Rollins also wrote non-Easter lyrics to the tune that later appeared on the 1963 Walt Disney Records 'Peter Cottontail Plus Other Funny Bunnies and their Friends'.

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Gene Autry



Jimmy Wakely



Johnnie Lee Wills



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Category:1950 singles

Category:Easter songs

Category:Songs about rabbits and hares

Category:Gene Autry songs

Category:Jimmy Wakely songs

Category:Johnnie Lee Wills songs

Category:Songs written by Walter E. "Jack" Rollins

Category:1949 songs

Category:Songs written by Steve Nelson (songwriter)


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