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Baby, It's Cold Outside. " Baby, It's Cold Outside " is a popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944 and popularized in the 1949 film Neptune's Daughter. While the lyrics make no mention of a holiday, it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme.
The song features in Disney's one-hour Christmas special From All of Us to All of You, originally broadcast in 1958 in the US, but now considered a Christmas tradition in the Nordic countries, where it is broadcast each Christmas Eve. The song was covered by John Williams for Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Sammy Cahn. " Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! ", also known as simply " Let It Snow ", is a song written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in July 1945 in Hollywood, California, during a heatwave as Cahn and Styne imagined cooler conditions. [1] [2] The song was first recorded that fall by Vaughn Monroe, was released just ...
White Christmas (song) " White Christmas " is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The song was written by Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn. The composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Bing Crosby's record topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks in ...
Silver Bells. " Silver Bells " is a Christmas song composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans . It debuted in the motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), where it was started by William Frawley, [1] then sung in the generally known version immediately thereafter by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell. [1] The first recorded version was produced by ...
Singer Johnny Mathis also covered the song on his Merry Christmas album in 1958, which was the #2 Christmas album of 1963 and 1964 as there were no Christmas album rankings prior to 1963. In December 1965, astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, while on Gemini 7, requested "I'll Be Home for Christmas" be played for them by the NASA ground crew.
Background. Crosby had recorded Christmas songs for the first time in 1935 and he had a huge hit with "Silent Night" that year.In 1942, he recorded "White Christmas" with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers for Decca Records in just 18 minutes on May 29, 1942, and it was released on July 30 as part of an album of six 78-rpm discs from the film Holiday Inn.
A Holly Jolly Christmas. " A Holly Jolly Christmas ", also known as " Have a Holly Jolly Christmas ", is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and most famously performed by Burl Ives. The song has since become one of the top 25 most-performed "holiday" songs written by ASCAP members, for the first five years of the 21st century. [1]