A Songwriter's Tale". Mike Batt. Archived from the original on 2012-03-17. David Essex rang me late in 1982 - just after my return from Australia, and asked if I could write him a Christmas hit. It was already late October so we didn't have much time. I was due to be writing with Tim Rice the following day- and was hoping to develop my idea for a musical about the Aztecs...anyway so I told Tim about the David Essex request, and we started thinking of ideas. ... we wrote a bit of the chorus and two lines of the verse, and then when Tim had gone home I sat and worked on it, coming up with the finished chorus and the second verse lyrics. The 10 worst Christmas songs ever". Asian News International. London. 19 December 2008 . Retrieved 23 December 2016. A Winter's Tale" was written by Mike Batt and Tim Rice in late 1982 in response to a request from Essex. [1] It was released as a single in November 1982. It spent ten weeks in the UK chart, peaking at #2 [2] on 15 January 1983. [ citation needed] Later in 1983, the song was included on Essex's album The Whisper. [3] Legacy [ edit ] All the Fun of the Fair, King's Theatre". The Herald. Glasgow. 5 November 2008 . Retrieved 23 December 2016. A Winter's Tale" was used to open the musical All the Fun of the Fair, launched in 2008, in which it was performed by Louise English. [5]

A Winter's Tale" is a song performed by David Essex on the 1983 album The Whisper. First released as a single in 1982, it reached #2 in the UK singles chart in January 1983, kept off #1 by Phil Collins's cover version of " You Can't Hurry Love". [ citation needed] Production and release [ edit ]