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"The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" or, as it was originally subtitled, "Merry Christmas to You") is a 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.
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is a pop song originally sung by Darlene Love and included on the 1963 compilation album A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records (later renamed A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector). The song was written by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector.
Featured on her album Home For Christmas, the song peaked at #6 on Billboard's Holiday Songs chart in 2002. [266] Christina Aguilera: 2000 Featured on her album My Kind of Christmas, the song peaked at #31 on Billboard's Holiday 100 in 2015. [267] Toni Braxton: 2001 Peaked at #14 in 2001 on Billboard's Holiday Songs chart. [268] James Taylor: 2001
The lyrics were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, the music was composed by Albert Hague, and the song was performed by Thurl Ravenscroft. Because Ravenscroft was not credited in the closing credits of the special, it is often mistakenly attributed to Boris Karloff, who served as narrator and the voice of the Grinch in the special but was not a trained singer.
The quintessential Christmas crush song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" finally hit No. 1 in 2019—25 years after its initial release! 2. Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"
It is included on her album Christmas in My Heart, released in 2013. American recording artist LeAnn Rimes released her cover of the song as a digital single [21] for her EP, One Christmas: Chapter 1 (2014). [22] American recording artist Kacey Musgraves recorded and released a version in 2016 for her Christmas album entitled A Very Kacey ...
"This Christmas" is a song by American soul musician Donny Hathaway released in 1970 by Atco Records. [3] The song gained renewed popularity when it was included in 1991 on Atco Records' revised edition of their 1968 Soul Christmas compilation album [4] and has since become a modern Christmas standard, with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers reporting that it was the ...
Far from being "just another Christmas song," "Jingle Bell Rock" turned out to be one of the defining holiday songs of the rock 'n' roll era, as instantly recognizable today as Bing Crosby's ...