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| - Gramophone record
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| - 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)
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| - %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.
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| - Mel Tormé
- Robert Wells (songwriter)
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| - fourth recording, 1961-03-30; Nat King Cole with orchestra conducted by Ralph Carmichael, stereo
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