It might seem a routine early to begin referencing Christmas songs , but I picture if the retailers can do it , so can I. And I do sincerely justify for anything that gets stuck in your head for the rest of the sidereal day .
2 . The Christmas Song . The words in the song are so evocative of winter , you would assume that they were written over a mug of cocoa sitting by a fireplace or something . But nope - it was written during a high temperature moving ridge in California . Mel Torme dropped by his admirer Robert Wells ' house , where Wells was hypothesise to be writing songs for a couple of movies . Instead , Mel walk in and Wells had write down " Chestnuts roast … Jack Frost nipping … Yuletide carols … Folks trim up like Eskimos , " because he was trying to think stale . Mel remember it was a bully idea for a Christmas song , so the two of them criticise the song out in 40 minutes .
3 . Santa Claus is Coming to Town . The early known public ventilation of this song was in November , 1934 on a radio show . It was an inst hit - it sold 100,000 copies of sheet medicine the very next twenty-four hours , and more than 400,000 by Christmas .
4 . Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmasfirst appeared in the Judy Garland musicalMeet Me In St. Louis . But the words were kind of depressing : they included , " Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas , it may be your last , " " Faithful friends who were dear to us will be near to us no more , " and " Until then we ’ll have to addle through somehow . " The lyric have changed over the years - Dean Martin rewrote that last lyric for Frank Sinatra ’s albumA Jolly Christmas , and that ’s the adaptation we probably know best : " Hang a gleam maven upon the high bough . "
6.Like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas , Silver Bellswas originally in a movie too -The Lemon Drop Kid . It was sung by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell . The best part , though , is that the song lead off out being ring Tinkle Alexander Bell … until the songwriter was telling his wife about his gravid raw strain and she informed him that tinkle was what little kids did when they peed . The song was inspired by Salvation Army workers ringing bells outside in the snow .
7 . Frosty the Snowmanwas passably much write to capitalise on the succeeder of Gene Autry ’s Rudolph rendering ( it was released just one season later ) . I ’m partial to the versions Jimmy Durante recorded to go with the 1969 T.V. special , myself .
8 . Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer . Husband and wife duo Elmo and Patsy record the song in 1978 and it started circulate in the San Francisco area . It only took a couple of years to become a fad hit . However , Elmo and Patsy divorced , so in 1992 , Elmo recorded it solo . He also released a subsequence in 2002 : Grandpa ’s Gon na action the Pants Offa Santa . I feel like he essay to capitalize on that one about 20 year too lately .
10 . Santa Baby , the song about wanting lots of excessive detail for Christmas , was first record in 1953 by Eartha Kitt , AKA Catwoman . Lots of hoi polloi have covered the Song dynasty - Madonna , magnificently , but also RuPaul , LeAnn Rimes , Natalie Merchant , Kylie Minogue and ( go figure ) The Pussycat Dolls . I have no doubt Eartha Kitt ’s is the good . The song was co - publish by Joan Javits , the niece of Jacob Javits , a New York Senator .
