Tyler Clark presents: Local Mythologies writesTop 25 Christmas Songs of the Last 25 Years: #23 - Logan Whitehurst, “Me and the Snowman”

It's the holiday season, which means Christmas music. Lots and lots or Christmas music, most of which was written before the people listening to it were even alive. While "Jingle Bells" and "We Three Kings" are great, and resilient, we're devoting this year to finding the best Christmas song written since 1989. We continue today with #23, and an ode to winter friendship from the late, great Logan Whitehurst.
 

#23 - Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club, "Me and the Snowman" (2004)

One of my favorite moments during the (criminally unheralded) 1987 television special A Muppet Family Christmas comes around Act II. After barging in on Fozzie's mom's house, the gang sets about preparing for an old-fashioned Christmas. Fozzie himself gets put on tree duty, but quickly forgets all of that when he comes across an anthropomorphic snowman with a taste for vaudeville comedy. The two joke their way through a loose rendition of "Sleigh Ride" before Fozzie runs off to tell Kermit about his new find. That scene usually gets cut in the home video release, owing to the high cost of music rights, but I always loved it.

Maybe Logan Whitehurst did, too. The talented singer-songwriter and former member of The Velvet Teen, who passed away eight years ago today at the (criminally young) age of 29, certainly appreciated the same kind of wide-eyed, back-slapping humor that Fozzie Bear embodies. It comes through on songs like this one, a feel-good slice of mid-'00s pop about, well, Logan and a snowman, hanging out and doing winter stuff. It's not explicitly a Christmas song, but in a season that values cameraderie and good will, it fits in better than most standards.