The Parade of the Tin Soldiers

In December 1920 Nikita Balieff's La Chauve-Souris (The Bat) revue reached Paris, to great acclaim, and in 1922 it was brought to Broadway.

Balieff's entertainingly choreographed wooden-soldiers showpiece, with Jessel's popular tune, was a sensation, and a by-demand mainstay of his extremely long-running U.S.

The film premiered on April 15, 1923 at the Rivoli Theater in New York City, and is now in the Maurice Zouary collection at the Library of Congress.

Also in 1933, The Rockettes began annually performing their own choreographed version of the piece, based on Balieff's original, in their Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

[10] The song featured in the 1938 Shirley Temple vehicle Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,[9] and the melody was used that same year in the Disney cartoon Polar Trappers to accompany a scene where penguins march behind Donald Duck as he tries to lure them to a trap.

[11] Though far less often heard than Jessel's original instrumental piece, Ballard MacDonald wrote English song lyrics for the tune,[6][7] in 1922.

The Rockettes have been performing their own choreographed version of the piece, based on Balieff's La Chauve-Souris original, since 1933 in their annual Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

[13] In Great Britain, "The Parade of the Tin Soldiers" was used for many years in BBC radio's Children's Hour to introduce the series Toytown, based on stories by S. G. Hulme Beaman.

Fairport Convention's Dave Swarbrick used the main melody as one part of the medley "Royal Seleccion No 13" on their album The Bonny Bunch of Roses, where it is titled "Toytown March".