[78-L] Chestnuts Roasting

[Randy Watts]

I never thought "The Christmas Song" was a really good fit on that album. A purely secular holiday song leading off an album otherwise made up of traditional carols. Not that other Christmas albums have ever had any problem doing worse and slotting something like "Christmas Island" in between "Silent Night" and "O Come, All Ye Faithful."
Randy
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Originally done for The Nat King Cole 
Story (a 1961 LP devoted to stereo re-recordings of Cole's earlier hits), this 
recording was later appended to a reissue of Cole's 1960 holiday album The 
Magic of Christmas. Retitled The Christmas Song, the album was issued in 1963 
as Capitol W-1967(mono) / SW-1967(stereo) and today is in print on compact 
disc.