As a little girl, I watched this and sung along to it every winter when they would play it. Now I’m all grown up. I still watch it, and I still sing along. She is my mothers namesake. Smile.
I am from Chicago and just found this video, seeing this just brought tears to my eyes. It was so magical growing up in Chicago and hearing this every year. What a treat!!!!!
Yes. For me it was the 60s. Sometimes it would get played on our Minneapolis-St. Paul local channel and the show was Tom Clancy morning show. Tom Clancy portrayed a cop that was basically saying good morning to all the children. They had little skits and little things like this and cartoons. They would play early early in the morning while you were eating your cream of wheat or whatever you ate for breakfast.
Every day during the Christmas season you'd see Suzy Snowflake on WGN-TV channel 9 in the mornings on The Ray Rayner Show, the afternoons on The Garfield Goose Show, and sometimes during Bozo at noon. We were spoiled! We had the best Christmas cartoons. I miss those days growing up in the early 60's.
We had that animation in Boston too. Loved the snow. Played in it from 9 AM until the street lights came on with only a quick lunch break. When we came home our toes were so numb from the cold that the heat hurt at first lol. Good times!
MANY thanks to the late Frazier Thomas and his "Garfield Goose" show for first airing this seasonal favorite on WGN-TV in Chicago when I was a little child!
Remember family classics with Fraser Thomas? Tobar, Gulliver's travels, My friend Flicka, and the other movies we all watched a hundred times over as kids. Fond memories indeed.
I grew up near chicago. This was one of my favorite clips. They played it randomly so I watched tv a lot just waiting for suzi snowflake. Now suzi is right there at my fingertips along with the memories.
how I loved watching this every year when I was a kid....and Frosty & Hardrock, Coco and Joe....great times, wish I had a time machine and could go back again...
Yes, some of us were blessed to grow up in a child- loving time. A child- loving time when children were so wanted and so loved that both parents cried for joy, privately embracing to share the granting of a miracle. Pregnancy entitled women to special treatment that everyone felt they should have: a seat on the bus or train, help with packages, crossing streets, especially in bad weather, pickle and ice cream cravings, foot massages done lovingly by their husbands, just gentleness and encouragement to take special care of you and your unborn child. Those were good years for the vast, huge majority of families for decades. It was understood that pregnancy, even outside marriage were special. Most of those were followed by hasty weddings, among civilized classes of people. Men stood up to the responsibility of fatherhood and were proud of their duties as husbands to care for their new family. How would that compare to today's culture? Who in her right mind would allow herself to miss birth control today? Back street butchers were so feared and reviled that they were our birth control.
Bless these peoples’ hearts. They did a fantastic job creating entertainment and warmth for people for almost a century. All involved were lovely people.
I'm 57 years old and live in NM. We had a light snow today, and it took me right back to my childhood in IL and good ol' Suzy. It's 2025, and I still love her!
Hello my dear friend Milton Evans how are you my dear your post Suzy Snowflake so cool cute and beautuful... I wish you merry merry christmas and happy new year dear good luck and all the best for you and may God always blessing you amen
This brings back memories of childhood Christmases. Our local TV channel still plays this and Hardrock, Coco and Joe every year. Thank you, Broadcast Museum!
FRAZIER THOMAS...and Garfield Goose used to play it at least once a week! Such great memories and a simpler time it was...Have a blessed Holiday All my Chicago peeps!
Holy Cows, Washington’s Channel 5, WTTG-FOX, played this same animation in the late 50’s. As a 7 or 8 year old, I fell in love with Suzy. 💕 WTTG also played an animation of FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, which made me sad when he melted.😞
I love the simplicity and innocence of it. Simple animation, music simply but sweetly done made our imaginations soar as children. A lovely innocent delight. Thank you for posting.
POSTING APPRECIATED. It's great to find this! Like sooo many other baby boomers from Chicago, I grew up watching Garfield Goose with Frazier Thomas. We all wanted to grow up, of course, however, we never have to relinquish childhood memories. Best Wishes To All.
This is so wonderful. I loved watching this! My brother or I would shout from the other room..."Suzie Snowflake is on!! Come on, come on.." Thank you so much for posting this! Merry Christmas!
thank you for posting this... i LOVE suzy snowflake. the animation is so simple and elegant; it's beautiful, as is the music. what a fantastic holiday staple.
I was 5 in 1952 & totally remember loving Suzy Snowflake. I was playing old 50’s Christmas on TV last nite & heard it & googled it. I can’t tell you how happy it made me to see & hear it again! I also didn’t know that the angelic singer was Norma Zimmer from the Lawrence Welk show.
Went to my grandchildren’s school choral concert. The kindergarten class sang this! It was sooo adorable. Brought back the memories of me sitting on the edge of the bed at night when it was snowing and imagining Susie Snowflake “ tap tap tapping “ on my window pane!
When I was in elementary school in the early-mid 60s, our school had movies every Weds in the lunchroom/stage. They would show us this little film each year on the last day of school before the holidays. I can still smell the creamed turkey over mashed potatoes & pumpkin pie our dear “lunch ladies” made, & the palpable excitement of a bunch of 6-11 year olds just before Christmas. Sweet memories.
I grew up with these! A couple of years ago I went to a lot of trouble to track down a DVD with these on it. Now it's on youtube! A couple of years before that we were passing through Chicago around xmas. One morning, my wife came out of the hotel bathroom to find me grooving to Suzy Snowflake on the TV. She was amazed/amused/confused. She grew up in the East and didn't know these.
I love singing and seeing Her. Lived in Boston. I just had to listen to it again. Wasn't keen on winter (seasonal depression-before it had name), but fresh fallen snow made the day better for me as a kid. I'm living in San Diego California now.
It's that time of year again. I wondered if anyone would have a copy of this cartoon and would be kind enough to post it. I thank you so much for doing so. I watched this many years ago.......I'm all smiles over here. Merry Christmas to all!
I grew up in Atlanta, Ga. This was also shown on one of the channels late at night during the Christmas season. Such wonderful memories. My folks are gone now, but this makes me think of our Christmas’s together. What a great memory. I can’t believe I found this...
Love this and blog about it every year along with Hardrock, Coco and Joe. Sister gave me the video from Broadcast Museum a few years ago. So glad they are sharing this on UA-cam.
I wonder why there has never been a Suzy Snowflake doll or ornament made for retail sale.. I know I would buy it and I'm sure millions of other people would too!
Those of us from Chicago have grown up with this and Hardrock Cocoa and Joe. Always looked forward to seeing this at Christmas time. Those were fun days..
This was also sold in 16mm sound prints by Castle Films for home movie use and rental libraries. They were available in camera shops and department stores.
I had to go looking for this. I didn't see it on TV this year and it wouldn't be the holiday season without it. Now, I got to find Hard Rock, Coco and Joe. 😄
if you were a kid in Chicago you saw this on Garfield goose this and hardrock coco and jo these shorts perfectly captured the christmas spirit and wonder and exemplified rhe winter wonderland magical transformation from many years past
Imagine the last remnant of humanity is a small probe flickering through space, its one job to search for other lifeforms. Long after the last human has died, it still remains, its thrusters long deactivated, slowly floating through space. And a small, dusty screen plays this on loop.
You're thinking of the NBC station, WJAC channel 6 in Johnstown. I remember watching this on channel 6 as recently as the mid-'90s, before we got DirecTV. My husband still goes around the house singing this one every time it snows.
Same with me, I remember WJAC Johnstown annually running this, The Three Little Dwarfs (Hardrock, Coco, and Joe), AND the Frosty the Snowman short during Christmas season during commercial breaks during the day and late at night until WJAC was dropped from our cable lineup twenty years ago.
It's a little bit of both. From Wikipedia: It is annually shown during the Christmas season on WGN-TV in Chicago, along with another production by Centaur, "Hardrock, Coco and Joe" and an early UPA version of "Frosty the Snowman". WJAC-TV in Johnstown, PA also runs these three cartoon shorts during the Christmas season.
Ladylittles...I also remember watching this on NYC TV during the early 1950's in the Bronx. My older brother used to kid me about watching this, but I was only 6 or 7 years old. Then again, he kidded me about lots of things.
One of my favorite getting ready for Christmas in Chicago in the early 70's cartoons. I would watch Ray Rayner getting ready to go to CPS. Those were great days back then.
Had no idea about this song till I was around 7 or 8. And my grandma and me where singing christmas songs and she sang me this one. My mind was blown, I'll still sing it now when ever I find the jingle in my head. Like right now.
Well I haven't heard this song I think in 40 years. I'm 60 now and brings back so many memories when I was a child.
Oh what a memory of happier and healthier days. 💖💖
As a little girl, I watched this and sung along to it every winter when they would play it. Now I’m all grown up. I still watch it, and I still sing along. She is my mothers namesake. Smile.
Me too!❤❤❤❤
Me too❄️❄️
Sing sing sing ........ +enjoy the wonderful memories ❤❤❤
Thank you for preserving this. When I watch it, I momentarily become the wide-eyed 5 year old I was when I first watched it. What a wonderful memory.
That's gotta be the cutest thing I've seen for years! Grew up in the Phila area, 1960s, so I don't think we ever saw this.
I am from Chicago and just found this video, seeing this just brought tears to my eyes. It was so magical growing up in Chicago and hearing this every year. What a treat!!!!!
I remember this being played on WGN Channel 9 in Chicago in the early 1970's during the holidays.
Yes. For me it was the 60s. Sometimes it would get played on our Minneapolis-St. Paul local channel and the show was Tom Clancy morning show. Tom Clancy portrayed a cop that was basically saying good morning to all the children. They had little skits and little things like this and cartoons. They would play early early in the morning while you were eating your cream of wheat or whatever you ate for breakfast.
I grew up in NW Indiana so I remember WGN playing this.
I remember it from the 60s!
Think of Suzy snowflake often through the years . Best childhood Xmas memory
I've remembered old Suze since 1952 or '53 -- it's grand to find she hasn't been lost. Childhood, man.
Every day during the Christmas season you'd see Suzy Snowflake on WGN-TV channel 9 in the mornings on The Ray Rayner Show, the afternoons on The Garfield Goose Show, and sometimes during Bozo at noon. We were spoiled! We had the best Christmas cartoons. I miss those days growing up in the early 60's.
Kim Mailloux
Loved it when Ray Ra
We had that animation in Boston too. Loved the snow. Played in it from 9 AM until the street lights came on with only a quick lunch break. When we came home our toes were so numb from the cold that the heat hurt at first lol. Good times!
my childhood favorite...watched this every Christmas on channel 9 wgn....makes me long for those wonderful days...
Yah me to, things seemed easier back then, of course i was only 8 or 9 at the time !
Me too
me to...1:57 was always my favorite part. How I loved Suzy, and Bozo, Gar and friends, and Hardrock Coco and Joooooee. My my those were the days. 😔
This and Hardrock, Coco, and Joe still play every Christmas in my home town in Pennsylvania :)
same here - "WJAC from atop the alleghenys"
I turn Fifty this year and all i can say is thank you Broadcast Museum you made a old man Smile.
Norma Zimmer just passed away in 2011,...I loved her singing this childhood favorite !!! R.I.P. Norma, my dear !!
Growing up in Chicago in the 60's and watching these cartoons made Christmas so magical. I'm glad I have these great memories!
MANY thanks to the late Frazier Thomas and his "Garfield Goose" show for first airing this seasonal favorite on WGN-TV in Chicago when I was a little child!
Remember family classics with Fraser Thomas? Tobar, Gulliver's travels, My friend Flicka, and the other movies we all watched a hundred times over as kids. Fond memories indeed.
That's why I think they should make this appealing to little girls today because of "Frozen."
phoebecatgi
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Can't beat the animation. Feel like I'm 8 years old again. Must follow it up with Hardrock, Coco, and Joe.
This stuff rocks!
I grew up near chicago. This was one of my favorite clips. They played it randomly so I watched tv a lot just waiting for suzi snowflake. Now suzi is right there at my fingertips along with the memories.
how I loved watching this every year when I was a kid....and Frosty & Hardrock, Coco and Joe....great times, wish I had a time machine and could go back again...
brings back memories of a time of good talent and meaningful music....just terrific...and we need more of this type of music
I loved this when I was little!
Daisy Brambletoes That’s why I think little girls today would enjoy watching this because of “Frozen.”
Yes, some of us were blessed to grow up in a child- loving time. A child- loving time when children were so wanted and so loved that both parents cried for joy, privately embracing to share the granting of a miracle. Pregnancy entitled women to special treatment that everyone felt they should have: a seat on the bus or train, help with packages, crossing streets, especially in bad weather, pickle and ice cream cravings, foot massages done lovingly by their husbands, just gentleness and encouragement to take special care of you and your unborn child. Those were good years for the vast, huge majority of families for decades. It was understood that pregnancy, even outside marriage were special. Most of those were followed by hasty weddings, among civilized classes of people. Men stood up to the responsibility of fatherhood and were proud of their duties as husbands to care for their new family. How would that compare to today's culture? Who in her right mind would allow herself to miss birth control today? Back street butchers were so feared and reviled that they were our birth control.
Bless these peoples’ hearts. They did a fantastic job creating entertainment and warmth for people for almost a century. All involved were lovely people.
To all my Chicago friends and family- this so reminds me of Christmas---Enjoy!!!
Not from Chicago or from the era, but I love it!
I'm 57 years old and live in NM. We had a light snow today, and it took me right back to my childhood in IL and good ol' Suzy.
It's 2025, and I still love her!
This is just so wonderful! I was born over twenty years after this first aired, but I can appreciate it for its goodness.
Absolutely beautiful singing. And adorable old video older than I am!!!!
Now Christmas begins. Very sweet and special. Thank you.
So beautiful. Reminds me of my childhood watching Garfield Goose on WGN on the black and white tv..
oh those simple sweet days.
Great childhood memories, growing up in Chicago!
Hello my dear friend Milton Evans how are you my dear your post Suzy Snowflake so cool cute and beautuful... I wish you merry merry christmas and happy new year dear good luck and all the best for you and may God always blessing you amen
nurul huda thank you my friend...And the same to you!
Yesss I'm 14 this osy childhood every holiday
That was such a sweet, innocent age.
My mom was 9 when this first came on in 1953. I saw it on WGN when I was 4 and still loving this, this is also my mom's fave too.
great memories indeed love this one :'( miss good ole' Chicago my homeown!!!!
This brings back memories of childhood Christmases. Our local TV channel still plays this and Hardrock, Coco and Joe every year.
Thank you, Broadcast Museum!
"Frosty," too?
I discovered it just a few years ago, but it’s very cool
Oh my gosh, I was 10 yrs. old in 1953 when I watched this on channel 6 in Phila. sad and beautiful memories, Joan Martino Hughes 12/24/2019
Brings a joyful tear to my eyes!! Love that Norman Luboff Choir! Yay, WBBM T.V., channel 2 !!💜
I remember all of these from when I was a kid! I was born in the 60's, grew up on the 70's. Now I can share this with my kids, glad I found this!
we watch this too in Johnstown PA ... its a classic..love it!
FRAZIER THOMAS...and Garfield Goose used to play it at least once a week! Such great memories and a simpler time it was...Have a blessed Holiday All my Chicago peeps!
This is just beautiful!
Before my time, and I love this! So charming, and the song is delightful. Will show to my Kindergarten come January. :O)
Holy Cows, Washington’s Channel 5, WTTG-FOX, played this same animation in the late 50’s. As a 7 or 8 year old, I fell in love with Suzy. 💕 WTTG also played an animation of FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, which made me sad when he melted.😞
Great memories growing up in chicago. It wasn't Christmas without suzy,hardrock,coco and joe and frosty.
I love the simplicity and innocence of it. Simple animation, music simply but sweetly done made our imaginations soar as children. A lovely innocent delight. Thank you for posting.
POSTING APPRECIATED. It's great to find this! Like sooo many other baby boomers from Chicago, I grew up watching Garfield Goose with Frazier Thomas. We all wanted to grow up, of course, however, we never have to relinquish childhood memories. Best Wishes To All.
This is so wonderful. I loved watching this! My brother or I would shout from the other room..."Suzie Snowflake is on!! Come on, come on.." Thank you so much for posting this! Merry Christmas!
thank you for posting this... i LOVE suzy snowflake. the animation is so simple and elegant; it's beautiful, as is the music. what a fantastic holiday staple.
❤. Thank you my friend !! For sharing
I'm from Western Pennsylvania and they play this along with Frosty and Hardrock every Christmas!! Just saw it 15 minutes ago from typing this. :)
I was 5 in 1952 & totally remember loving Suzy Snowflake. I was playing old 50’s Christmas on TV last nite & heard it & googled it. I can’t tell you how happy it made me to see & hear it again! I also didn’t know that the angelic singer was Norma Zimmer from the Lawrence Welk show.
Went to my grandchildren’s school choral concert. The kindergarten class sang this! It was sooo adorable. Brought back the memories of me sitting on the edge of the bed at night when it was snowing and imagining Susie Snowflake “ tap tap tapping “ on my window pane!
What we have all lost is innocence. And we can't get that back.
I'm glad that someone digitally enhanced this cartoon. It was really falling apart.
That's why I think little girls today should watch it because of "Frozen."
When I was in elementary school in the early-mid 60s, our school had movies every Weds in the lunchroom/stage. They would show us this little film each year on the last day of school before the holidays. I can still smell the creamed turkey over mashed potatoes & pumpkin pie our dear “lunch ladies” made, & the palpable excitement of a bunch of 6-11 year olds just before Christmas. Sweet memories.
The years growing up in Chicago.,,,,wonderful memories!
It was seen outside of Chicago. I remember this well from Boston TV stations.
I grew up with these!
A couple of years ago I went to a lot of trouble to track down a DVD with these on it. Now it's on youtube!
A couple of years before that we were passing through Chicago around xmas. One morning, my wife came out of the hotel bathroom to find me grooving to Suzy Snowflake on the TV. She was amazed/amused/confused. She grew up in the East and didn't know these.
This still plays every year on Channel 6 out of Scranton. I love seeing it and "Hardrock/Coco/Joe!"
I love singing and seeing Her. Lived in Boston. I just had to listen to it again. Wasn't keen on winter (seasonal depression-before it had name), but fresh fallen snow made the day better for me as a kid. I'm living in San Diego California now.
Oh, my. I haven't seen this animated short since I was ten and living in Aurora, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago). How nostalgic!
Norm Breyfogle Do you think little girls today would love it because they saw “Frozen” and went as Elsa every Halloween? Because I do.
This played in new England as well. I remember this show... Not to many people do...
Now this is christmas!
It's that time of year again. I wondered if anyone would have a copy of this cartoon and would be kind enough to post it. I thank you so much for doing so. I watched this many years ago.......I'm all smiles over here. Merry Christmas to all!
Saw this as a little girl in Boston. It was magical...
We wanted suzy to meet jack frost😊
Alot of memories of watching these old cartoons every Christmas on wjac in Johnstown
I watch this every Christmas season in Washington, DC. The 50’s and 60’s were the best of times for growing up. I miss those days.
Thanks for sharing this video.
Just now realized the baby's name in Elf was Susie! That brought me to Suzy Snowflake!
I was 4. And so excited to see this on TV.
I grew up in Atlanta, Ga. This was also shown on one of the channels late at night during the Christmas season. Such wonderful memories. My folks are gone now, but this makes me think of our Christmas’s together. What a great memory. I can’t believe I found this...
I remember this ..
still showed on Johnstown tv station. watch this one and the other two all the time. seen then on tv ever since i was a little kid.
My Favorite Every Year.
Love this and blog about it every year along with Hardrock, Coco and Joe. Sister gave me the video from Broadcast Museum a few years ago. So glad they are sharing this on UA-cam.
I wonder why there has never been a Suzy Snowflake doll or ornament made for retail sale.. I know I would buy it and I'm sure millions of other people would too!
frostgiantsdaughter Yeah I wonder why to
Joe Whitehead I think little girls today would love this because of "Frozen."
Those of us from Chicago have grown up with this and Hardrock Cocoa and Joe. Always looked forward to seeing this at Christmas time.
Those were fun days..
WGN Chicago!
This was also sold in 16mm sound prints by Castle Films for home movie use and rental libraries. They were available in camera shops and department stores.
I had to go looking for this. I didn't see it on TV this year and it wouldn't be the holiday season without it. Now, I got to find Hard Rock, Coco and Joe. 😄
I'm 74 and grew up in the Chicago suburbs. We saw this all the time. What a beautiful memory. ❤❤❤❤
I'm so excited, we're getting the first snow of the year today. I just had to find this song!
if you were a kid in Chicago you saw this on Garfield goose this and hardrock coco and jo these shorts perfectly captured the christmas spirit and wonder and exemplified rhe winter wonderland magical transformation from many years past
So many memories from many years ago each time I play Suzy Snowflake. ❤
Merry Christmas from Chicago!
Imagine the last remnant of humanity is a small probe flickering through space, its one job to search for other lifeforms. Long after the last human has died, it still remains, its thrusters long deactivated, slowly floating through space. And a small, dusty screen plays this on loop.
You're thinking of the NBC station, WJAC channel 6 in Johnstown. I remember watching this on channel 6 as recently as the mid-'90s, before we got DirecTV. My husband still goes around the house singing this one every time it snows.
Everybody's mentioning Chicago. I'm from Western PA, and this was a stable of Christmas until my cable network decided to drop WJAC...
Same with me, I remember WJAC Johnstown annually running this, The Three Little Dwarfs (Hardrock, Coco, and Joe), AND the Frosty the Snowman short during Christmas season during commercial breaks during the day and late at night until WJAC was dropped from our cable lineup twenty years ago.
Blairsville
Pine Grove Mills, it made the boy next door's Christmas!
It's a little bit of both. From Wikipedia: It is annually shown during the Christmas season on WGN-TV in Chicago, along with another production by Centaur, "Hardrock, Coco and Joe" and an early UPA version of "Frosty the Snowman". WJAC-TV in Johnstown, PA also runs these three cartoon shorts during the Christmas season.
Portage Pa 😀
Ladylittles...I also remember watching this on NYC TV during the early 1950's in the Bronx. My older brother used to kid me about watching this, but I was only 6 or 7 years old. Then again, he kidded me about lots of things.
i love this video!! watched it as a kid with my twin sister!! i still remember the words!!!
One of my favorite getting ready for Christmas in Chicago in the early 70's cartoons. I would watch Ray Rayner getting ready to go to CPS. Those were great days back then.
I remember this growing up in Philadelphia in the early 1950s. I love it! Thanks!
This, Hardrock Cocoa & Joe, & Frosty were some of my best childhood memories.
Nothing like the classics!
I grew up in Philly, and I remember this being broadcast years ago.
I love watching this!
Had no idea about this song till I was around 7 or 8. And my grandma and me where singing christmas songs and she sang me this one. My mind was blown, I'll still sing it now when ever I find the jingle in my head. Like right now.
I listened to this on a "78" in the 1960s.
I listened to it in the 50s. I so loved it!
Just watched it again. It's priceless. Thanks for posting it!
Don't forget Clutch Cargo and his pals Spinner and Paddlefoot!