Composed in 1960 by Charles Brown, a well-known blues pianist and singer, and Gene Redd, also a singer, Please Come Home for Christmas took some time to achieve success. When it was first released in 1961, it still managed to reach the Billboard Top 100, but did not…
Written in 1941, this Christmas carol, inspired by a 20th-century Czech lullaby, The Little Drummer Boy, was written by a teacher and classical composer named Katherine K. Davis. Originally titled Carol of the Drum, it was intended for an amateur choir composed solely of…
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, written by Robert Meredith Willson, dates back to 1951 and was apparently written while the composer was staying at the Grand Hotel in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. While there is no evidence to support this claim, at least that's what the rumor circulating at that time suggests…