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The Christmas Song

(2007-12-24 17:29:40) 下一个


Celine Dion - The Christmas Song @ Las Vegas Final Night





Title: The Christmas Song
Artist: Celine Dion

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like eskimos


Everybody knows some tofu and some mistletoe
Help to make the season bright
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight


They know that Santa's on his way
He's loaded lots of toys
And goodies on his sleigh
And every mother's child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly


And so, I'm offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although its been said
Many times, many ways
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to.. You!





The Christmas Song
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"Christmas Song" redirects here. For the Mannheim Steamroller record of the same name, see Christmas Song (album).
"The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song, written in 1944 by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé , the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to "stay cool by thinking cool," the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born.

"I saw a spiral pad on his piano with four lines written in pencil," Tormé recalled. "They started, `Chestnuts roasting ... Jack Frost nipping ... Yuletide carols ... Folks dressed up like Eskimos.' Bob (Wells, co-writer) didn't think he was writing a song lyric. He said he thought if he could immerse himself in winter he could cool off. Forty minutes later that song was written. I wrote all the music and some of the lyrics."

The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song early in 1946. At Cole's behest (and over the objections of his label, Capitol Records), a second recording was made the same year utilizing a small string section, this version becoming a massive hit on both the pop and R&B charts. Cole re-recorded the song in 1953 and again in 1961, using the same arrangement with a full orchestra; the latter recording is generally regarded as definitive and continues to receive considerable radio airplay each holiday season, while Cole's original 1946 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1974.[1] Mel Tormé himself eventually recorded his own versions in 1954 and again in 1965.

The song is typically subtitled with its opening line ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"); in some cases, most notably with Cole's recordings, the song's closing line ("Merry Christmas to You") is used as a subtitle instead.

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YuGong 回复 悄悄话 多谢 ^-* 来访。请“掉鱼”的同时可别忘了授人于渔。 :-)
Merry Christmas!
^_* 回复 悄悄话 哇,鱼公这里有那么多的鱼,以后会常来掉鱼,祝你生蛋快乐.:))))))
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