"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" is a popular Christmas song made famous by Nat King Cole. It is featured on the Sesame Street albums A Sesame Street Christmas and Merry Christmas from Sesame Street. The song is also performed by Big Bird and the Swedish Chef in A Muppet Family Christmas.
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| - "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" is a popular Christmas song made famous by Nat King Cole. It is featured on the Sesame Street albums A Sesame Street Christmas and Merry Christmas from Sesame Street. The song is also performed by Big Bird and the Swedish Chef in A Muppet Family Christmas.
- "The Christmas Song", commonly subtitled as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire", is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells.
- "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 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé. Greg Page sings this song on his Christmas album: Here Comes Christmas!.
- Written by: Music by: Lyrics by: Date: Publisher: "The Christmas Song", commonly subtitled as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire", is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, it was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool," the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born.
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| - Phineas and Ferb Holiday Favorites
- Christmas at Home
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- Prep & Landing
- A Muppet Family Christmas
- Jingle All the Way
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| - Big Bird and the Swedish Chef sing the song in A Muppet Family Christmas.
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| - Edwin H. Morris & Co. Inc.; Sony/ATV Tunes LLC
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| - Robert Wells
- Mel Tormé
- Mel Tormé and Robert Wells
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| - "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" is a popular Christmas song made famous by Nat King Cole. It is featured on the Sesame Street albums A Sesame Street Christmas and Merry Christmas from Sesame Street. The song is also performed by Big Bird and the Swedish Chef in A Muppet Family Christmas.
- "The Christmas Song", commonly subtitled as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire", is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells.
- "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 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé. Greg Page sings this song on his Christmas album: Here Comes Christmas!.
- Written by: Music by: Lyrics by: Date: Publisher: "The Christmas Song", commonly subtitled as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire", is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, it was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool," the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born. "I saw a spiral pad on his piano with four lines written in pencil," Tormé recalled. "They started, ‘Chestnuts roasting...Jack Frost nipping...Yuletide carols...Folks dressed up like Eskimos.’ Bob (Wells, cowriter) 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." The 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 the same year utilizing a small string section, this version becoming a massive hit on both the pop and R&B charts. He rerecorded it 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. The latter recording is generally regarded as definitive and continues to receive considerable radio airplay each holiday season, while Cole’s original 1946 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1974. Mel Tormé eventually recorded his own versions in 1954 and again in 1965 and 1992.
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