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Written by Mel Tome and Bob Wells, the song, commonly referred to as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire", was the first widely released Christmas song when the Nat King Cole Trio debuted the tune on Capitol Records.
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Has sold over 15 Million albums since being released in the forties, second only to Elvis Presley's 1957 Christmas album.
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Released by Capitol Records in 1957, Old Blue Eyes shines on his first full-length Christmas album accompanied by an orchestra directed by Gordon Jenkins.
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The best-selling Christmas album in American music history, Elvis' rendition of holiday classics sold over 13 million units and caused some controversy when Irving Berlin took exception to the way Presley performed his tunes.
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The first Holiday-themed album by Dean Martin for Capitol records.
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This was bandleader Duke Ellington's first release of a Christmas album and heavily featured jazzy renditions of classic songs.
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The first jazz-themed Christmas-time album to hit the shelves. It was also the only album of its kind that Fitzgerald recorded.
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Perhaps one of the most nostalgic of all Christmas albums was the one mimicking the high-pitched voices of Alvin and the Chipmunks on the 1961 release of Christmas music under that piercing trio of voices.
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The Beach Boys jumped on the burgeoning Christmas album bandwagon in 1964 with their playful tunes to the classics.
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One of the first country-themed Christmas albums to be released, Loretta Lynn blazed the way for the likes of Gerth Brooks after her on this debut holiday project.
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The foray by Johnny Cash into the holiday music scene made him a veteran in the genre having released The Christmas Spirit in 1963.
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Detroit's free-wheeling soul explosion took to the holiday genre in 1973 with this offering featuring the likes of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, The Jackson 5 and The Supremes among others.
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John Denver's third Christmas album paired him with the popular characters from the Muppets variety show. It was a further step toward the commercialization of the Christmas album as it cross-promoted across tv and music.
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Al Green gives listeners the gift of his versions of classic Christmas songs.
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Boyz II Men brought Christmas to contemporary R&B with their "interpretation" of the classics along with some new tracks.
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Produced the worldwide classic single, "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which became the best-selling holiday ringtone in the U.S. The album sold 5,120,000 copies in the United States. aand has been certified five-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of five million copies. in the United States.[4]
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Luther Vandross lends his baritone to Christmas hits.
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Gangsta rap's move into holiday music culminated in this album released in 1996 under the Death Row imprint. he likes of Snoop Dogg, Danny Boy, Tha Dogg Pound and the late Nate Dogg spin tales of yule and merriment in a bit of a different theme. My favorite line from the album, “I saw Santa on the top of my crib so I grabbed my glock and did my bid, kid.” Classic.
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One of the most obvious commercial ploys in history the boy band took on familiar Christmas songs while mixing them with ear screeching renditions of their own songs. NSync made a lot of money and we were stuck with a larger Christmas song catalog.
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The indie band took a stab at Christmas tunes early into the new millennium to fairly good reviews.
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The fourth edition in the most commercialized album series in the history of the world, it was only a matter of time before there was a Christmas Now!
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Following in the traditional path of earlier artists similar to him (see NSync) Bieber released a Christmas album in the winter of 2011 to glowing reviews, a release and concert on the Today show and several music videos and a tour. A great way for the Biebs to pocket some extra spending money.
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Buble challenges Bieber's stake to the Christmas Crown of 2011 with his release aptly named Christmas.
