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"The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" or, as it was originally subtitled, "Merry Christmas to You") is a Christmas song written in 1945 [note 1] by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song in June 1946.
He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. Tormé won two Grammy Awards and was nominated a total of 14 times. Tormé won two Grammy Awards and was nominated a total of 14 times.
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"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (Mel Tormé and Robert Wells) by Carmen McRae – 3:54 "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks) by Pony Poindexter – 2:31 "We Three Kings of Orient Are" (traditional tune, lyrics by John Henry Hopkins Jr.) by Paul Horn – 3:50; Side Two
"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" Natalie Cole with Orchestra: 3:43: 11. "Good King Wenceslas" Richard Elliott: 3:11: 12. "Christmas Carols in the Air" Choir and Orchestra: 11:28: 13. "In the Bleak Midwinter" Choir and Orchestra: 5:47: 14. "Angels, from the Realms of Glory" Natalie Cole with Choir, Orchestra, and Bells ...
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The song was written in 1943 [2] [3] [4] for the film Meet Me in St. Louis, for which MGM had hired Martin and Blane to write several songs. [4] Martin was vacationing in a house in the neighborhood of Southside in Birmingham, Alabama, that his father Hugh Martin had designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage, located just down the street from his birthplace, and which later became the ...