Opposite to recent thread, entitle: Christmas Song Elimintaion
What are some of your favorite Christmas songs? I have a few, but one that ranks up there is The Christmas Song, aka, Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire, by Nat King Cole.
Pretty cool, or hot, story behind the song:
It was written by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé, and first recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio in June 1946.
“According to Tormé, the song was written in July 1945 during a blistering hot summer. It was in an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool". Tormé said that he saw a spiral pad on his Wells’s piano with four lines written in pencil. They started, 'Chestnuts roasting..., Jack Frost nipping..., Yuletide carols…, Folks dressed up like Eskimos’. Tormé recalled that Wells didn’t think he was writing song lyrics. He thought if he could immerse himself in winter, then he could cool off. Forty minutes later the song was written. Tormé wrote all the music and some of the lyrics..."
What are some of your favorite Christmas songs? I have a few, but one that ranks up there is The Christmas Song, aka, Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire, by Nat King Cole.
Pretty cool, or hot, story behind the song:
It was written by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé, and first recorded by the Nat King Cole Trio in June 1946.
“According to Tormé, the song was written in July 1945 during a blistering hot summer. It was in an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool". Tormé said that he saw a spiral pad on his Wells’s piano with four lines written in pencil. They started, 'Chestnuts roasting..., Jack Frost nipping..., Yuletide carols…, Folks dressed up like Eskimos’. Tormé recalled that Wells didn’t think he was writing song lyrics. He thought if he could immerse himself in winter, then he could cool off. Forty minutes later the song was written. Tormé wrote all the music and some of the lyrics..."
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