While he dreamed of having someone like Dean Martin sing it one day, nothing really happened with it, so he filed it away.<\/b>
\nROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) \u2013 After more than 40 years, a Long Island songwriter is finally getting to listen to his college creation become a reality.
Frank Scafuri is 68 years old and wrote his song \u201cA Small Town Christmas\u201d when he was a student at Juilliard.
CBS2\u2019s Cindy Hsu talked with him about the town of Windham in upstate New York.
\u201cThis is a town where you walk down the street, you smile and you just wave to each other,\u201d said Scafuri.
While he dreamed of having someone like Dean Martin sing it one day, nothing really happened with it, so he filed it away.
\u201cThe song was in a filing cabinet for 45 years,\u201d he said.
Eight years ago, his wife heard him play the song on their piano for the first time.
\u201cI said this is such a gorgeous song, I said where did it come from, who sings this?\u201d said Mary Ann Scafuri. \u201cHe said, Mary Ann, I did this back in the 70s, you know when I was at Juilliard.
Mary Ann encouraged him to do something with it, so he dug it out.
At a charity auction this year, Frank won a recording session with a jazz guitarist and then ended up working with a very successful music producer.
The song was just released last month, and now it\u2019s available on everything from Spotify to iTunes.
\u201cSo all I simply do is say, Alexa play \u2018A Small Town Christmas\u2019 by Frank Scafuri on Amazon music,\u201d he said. \u201cI think this is a dream but I have to tell you God is my agent.<\/p>\n