The Christmas Song
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"The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé.
Man roasting chestnuts on an open fire.
Nat King Cole (1958)
Aguilera's (pictured) version became the second highest charting position of the song on the Billboard Hot 100 after the original 55 years earlier
Christmas music
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Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or, in the case of carols, may employ lyrics about the nativity of Jesus Christ, traditions such as gift-giving and merrymaking, cultural figures such as Santa Claus, or other topics. Many songs simply have a winter or seasonal theme, or have been adopted into the canon for other reasons.
The U.S Army Band performs a Christmas concert in 2010
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, (left) in the snow where the Nine Lessons and Carols are broadcast on the BBC and around the world on Christmas Eve
Child Christmas carolers in Bucharest, Romania 1929
The large repertoire of Advent and Christmas church music plays an important role in services