Happy Christmas Eve to all Jazz Coffee Lovers ! 🎶Coffee~Break~Song🎶~Join us╰▶Jazz Coffee💕 The Christmas Song~Nat King Cole Nathaniel Adams Coles (17/3/1919–15/2/1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer and musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft, baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres. Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a television variety show, The Nat King Cole Show, and has maintained worldwide popularity since his death from lung cancer in February 1965. The Christmas Song (commonly subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire or, as it was originally subtitled, Merry Christmas to You) is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé. The Nat King Cole Trio first recorded the song early in 1946. At Coles behest – and over the objections of his label, Capitol Records – a second recording was made later the same year utilizing a small string section, this version becoming a massive hit on both the pop and R&B charts. Cole again recorded the song in 1953, using the same arrangement with a full orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle, and once more in 1961, in a stereophonic version with orchestra conducted by Ralph Carmichael. Coles 1961 version is generally regarded as definitive, and in 2004 was the most-loved seasonal song with women aged 30–49, while the original 1946 recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1974. Robert Wells (15/10/1922–28/9/1998) was an American songwriter, composer, script writer and television producer. Melvin Howard Tormé (13/9/1925–5/6/1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, best known as a singer of jazz standards. youtu.be/SOszvL9lgSs
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