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Christmas. Songwriter (s) Robert Wells. Mel Tormé. " The Christmas Song " (commonly subtitled " Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire " or, as it was originally subtitled, " Merry Christmas to You ") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 [ note 1] by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé . The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song in June 1946.
Silver Bells. " Silver Bells " is a Christmas song composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans . It debuted in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), where it was started by William Frawley, [ 1] then sung in the generally known version immediately thereafter by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. [ 1] The first recorded version was produced by ...
Bing Crosby recording. On October 1, 1943, Crosby recorded the song under the title "I'll Be Home for Christmas (If Only in My Dreams)", with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra for Decca Records; [ 3] it was released as a 78 rpm single, Decca 18570A, Matrix #L3203, and reissued in 1946 as Decca 23779. Within a month of release, the song charted ...
The Pogues, "Fairytale of New York". If you're a little too happy on Christmas, tune in to this depressing but beautiful staple and take it down a notch. 12. Bruce Springsteen, "Santa Claus Is ...
The melody of "Deck the Hall" is taken from "Nos Galan" ("New Year's Eve"), a traditional Welsh New Year's Eve carol published in 1794, although it is much older. [ 1 ] In 1912, Ruth Herbert Lewis made a wax cylinder recording of a Welshman named Benjamin Davies singing a song, "Can y Coach faier", which uses the old melody now associated with ...
11.11.11.11. Melody. "Cradle Song" by William J. Kirkpatrick, "Mueller" by James R. Murray. " Away in a Manger " is a Christmas carol first published in the late nineteenth century and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain, it is one of the most popular carols; a 1996 Gallup Poll ranked it joint second.
Paul Williams, President and chairman, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) The top thirty most-played holiday songs for the 2015 holiday season are ranked here, all titles written or co-written by ASCAP songwriters and composers. Most of these songs in some way describe or are reminiscent of Christmas traditions, how Western Christian countries tend to celebrate the ...
The Classic Christmas Album is a Christmas compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on October 7, 2014, by Columbia Records [1] and includes two 1961 recordings that were previously unavailable: "Ol' Kris Kringle" and the original version of the title track from his 1969 Christmas album Give Me Your Love for ...