About: Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire (The Christmas Song)

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sameAs	The Christmas Song
has title	Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire (The Christmas Song)
has format	Gramophone record Single (music)
has language	eng
Subject	2012 singles 1999 singles 2009 singles Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients American Christmas songs 1945 songs Mel Tormé songs Nat King Cole songs Songs written by Mel Tormé Songs written by Robert Wells (songwriter)
abstract	%22The Christmas Song%22 (commonly subtitled %22Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire%22 or, as it was originally subtitled, %22Merry Christmas to You%22) is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to %22stay cool by thinking cool%22, the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born. %22I saw a spiral pad on his (Wells') piano with four lines written in pencil%22, Tormé recalled. %22They started, 'Chestnuts roasting..., Jack Frost nipping..., Yuletide carols..., Folks dressed up like Eskimos.' Bob didn't think he was writing a song lyric. He said he thought if he could immerse himself in winter he could cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics.%22The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song early in 1946. At Cole's behest – and over the objections of his label, Capitol Records – a second recording was made later the same year utilizing a small string section, this version becoming a massive hit on both the pop and R&B charts. Cole again recorded the song in 1953, using the same arrangement with a full orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle, and once more in 1961, in a stereophonic version with orchestra conducted by Ralph Carmichael. Cole's 1961 version is generally regarded as definitive, and in 2004 was the most-loved seasonal song with women aged 30–49, while the original 1946 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1974.
schema:author	Mel Tormé Robert Wells (songwriter)
schema:datePublished	2009-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
homepage	http://lyrics.wikia.com/Hayley_Westenra:Chestnuts_Roasting_On_An_Open_Fire_%28The_Christmas_Song%29
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mo:performer	Hayley Westenra Metro Voices
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bpm	86.000000(xsd:float)
mo:duration	169000.000000(xsd:float)
isrc	GBBBA0941940
track number	2(xsd:integer)
schema:album	Winter Magic
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wsb:deezer_artist_id	9397
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wsb:rank	316335(xsd:integer)
wsb:record_label	Capitol Records
wsb:recording_description	1946-08-19 1953-08-26
wsb:title_without_accent	Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
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