Christmas With Nat King Cole

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Hutchinson, Lydia (December 5, 2016). "The Christmas Song". Performingsongwriter.com. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020 . Retrieved November 3, 2020. As Tormé relates in his autobiography, 'Improbable though it may sound, 'The Christmas Song' was completed about 45 minutes later. Excitedly, we called Carlos Gastel [manager of Nat Cole and Peggy Lee], sped into Hollywood, played it for him, then for [lyricist] Johnny Burke, and then for Nat Cole, who fell in love with the tune. It took a full year for him to get into a studio to record it [in 1946], but his record finally came out in late fall of 1946; and the rest could be called our financial pleasure.'

The Christmas Song" has been covered by numerous artists from a wide variety of genres. In December 1946, Bing Crosby performed it on a recorded radio broadcast with an introduction including Skitch Henderson on piano. [43] Crosby, with the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra, also made a studio recording on March 19, 1947, which went on to be released as a single later that same year. [44] [45] In 1953, Perry Como performed the song for both the Christmas Joy single and his album Around the Christmas Tree. [46]As we count down the shopping days remaining until Christmas, let’s also count down the top 25 holiday albums. This list is drawn from Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Top Holiday Albums chart, which is based on actual performance on Billboard’s weekly Top Holiday Albums chart from its inception on Dec. 21, 1985, through the ranking dated Jan. 8, 2022. Special Awards – Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame". Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. 2013. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014 . Retrieved March 23, 2014. Holiday 100 (Week of December 18, 2021)". Billboard. December 18, 2021 . Retrieved 14 December 2021.

He was the father of singer Natalie Cole (1950–2015), who covered her father's songs in the 1991 album Unforgettable... with Love. Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs". Archived from the original on February 24, 2020 . Retrieved June 3, 2019. Dutchcharts.nl – Nat %22King%22 Cole – The Christmas Song" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 31, 2022.Holiday 100: The week of December 20, 2014". Billboard. Archived from the original on 7 April 2018 . Retrieved 7 March 2019. Italian single certifications – Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved January 3, 2022. Select "2021" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "The Christmas Song" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione". McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–" . Retrieved May 28, 2023. Autry, the singing cowboy, had the original recording on three of the most popular Christmas songs of the 20th century: “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman” and “Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane).” Autry co-wrote the last song and sang them all with his languid, disarming tenor. Autry released a Christmas single every year during his peak years, and this anthology offers 26 different songs, all of them a pleasure to hear. —Geoffrey Himes In 1983, an archivist for EMI Electrola Records, a subsidiary of EMI (Capitol's parent company until 2013) in Germany, discovered some unreleased recordings by Cole, including one in Japanese and another in Spanish ("Tu Eres Tan Amable"). Capitol released them later that year as the LP Unreleased.

Cole recorded "The Christmas Song" four times— on June 14, 1946, with the Nat King Cole Trio; on August 19, 1946, with an added string section; on August 24, 1953; and in 1961 for the double album The Nat King Cole Story. The final version, recorded in stereo, is the one most often heard today. Holiday 100: The week of December 10, 2016". Billboard. Archived from the original on 7 April 2018 . Retrieved 7 March 2019. a b Crawford, Trish (June 12, 2015). "How I got the jazz gene: seven artists reveal their roots". The Toronto Star. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017 . Retrieved May 26, 2017.In 1959, he received a Grammy Award for Best Performance By a "Top 40" Artist for "Midnight Flyer". [39] Capitol Records Building, known as "The House That Nat Built" on Vine St. rush360 (July 24, 2022). "Inductees | R&B HOF" . Retrieved February 11, 2023. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link)