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The U.S Army Band performs a Christmas concert in 2010.. Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of carols, may employ lyrics about the nativity of Jesus Christ, traditions such as gift-giving and merrymaking, cultural figures such as Santa Claus ...
First recorded and released by Decca Records in 1939 (Decca 2478) and again in 1947 (Decca 24260). A Decca re-release charted on the Music Vendor Christmas list of 1963. Lombardo first performed the song on radio in 1929. Kenny G: 1999 Subtitled "The Millennium Mix". Peaked at No. 7 on Billboard 's Hot 100 singles chart on the week ending ...
Billboard magazine only charted Christmas singles and albums along with the other popular non-holiday records until the 1958 holiday season when they published their first section that surveys only Christmas music. An increase of Christmas records began charting Billboard in 1957. The popular music surveys charted 9 Christmas singles, including ...
American singer Dean Martin released a version of the song in 1959, as part of his album A Winter Romance, and a re-recorded version in 1966, as part of The Dean Martin Christmas Album. The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 2018 and every year since, peaking at number 8 through 2023, with a total of 29 weeks in the Top ...
"Xmas" used on a Christmas postcard, 1910. Early use of Xmas includes Bernard Ward's History of St. Edmund's college, Old Hall (originally published c. 1755). [14] An earlier version, X'temmas, dates to 1551. [14] Around 1100 the term was written as XpĚ„es mæsse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. [1] Xmas is found in a letter from George Woodward ...
"Happy Holiday" was introduced by Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds (dubbed by Martha Mears) in the 1942 film Holiday Inn in a scene when the Inn opens for the first time. . While it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song, in the film it is performed on New Year's Eve, and expresses a wish for the listener to enjoy "happy holidays" throughout the entire
The Christmas tree was first used by German Lutherans in the 16th century, ... Radio has covered Christmas music from variety shows from the 1940s and 1950s, ...
"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 [note 1] by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé. The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song in June 1946.