"205000.0"^^ . "2009 singles" . "1953-08-26" . . "e740dd7f-9920-46f2-85f1-4a487fc14cf8" . . "Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients" . . "0.494201"^^ . . . "314293"^^ . . "Songs written by Robert Wells (songwriter)" . . . . . . . . . . "American Christmas songs" . "1945 songs" . "Mel Torm\u00E9 songs" . "Capitol Records" . . "617" . . "14016803" . . "The Christmas Song" . "Gramophone record" . . . "FRS181415719" . "2012 singles" . . "Mel Torm\u00E9" . . "0.0856857"^^ . "1999 singles" . "Robert Wells (songwriter)" . "true"^^ . . "-17.3"^^ . "english" . . . "Songs written by Mel Torm\u00E9" . "1946-08-19" . "5714ded025ac0d8aee4244a3" . "false"^^ . "The Christmas Song" . "3"^^ . . . "Nat King Cole songs" . "false"^^ . "2009-11-09"^^ . "Single (music)" . . "128.0"^^ . "9"^^ . "%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 Torm\u00E9. According to Torm\u00E9, 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, Torm\u00E9 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 \u2013 and over the objections of his label, Capitol Records \u2013 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\u201349, while the original 1946 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1974." .