After 62 years of scoring the holiday season for so many, the late Nat King Cole’s classic rendition of “The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)” has made its way into the top 10 of Billboard’s ...

Dick LaPalm is a record promoter who worked closely with Nat King Cole on all of his releases for Capitol in the '50s and '60s. He sent along the following note regarding the history of The Christmas ...

Decades before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” became a Christmas classic, Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” ruled the airwaves. Born in Montgomery, Ala. in 1919, Nathaniel Adams ...

When this song was released in 1961, it was a pivotal time not only for Christmas music, but for America itself—culture was colliding with mid-century modern sensibilities and Christmas was becoming ...