[Twotone]

Steyn's 'song of the week' with a nice rendition of the song at the site.

[Bigg Red]

Mark

[Chgogal]

Bookmark

[Songcraft]

Great post, and beautiful Christmas song!   Thanks for posting.

[Fiji Hill]

If you had to pin a precise date to the dawn of the Golden Age of American Christmas Songs, it would probably be December 1942.

The Golden Age of American Christmas Songs didn't last very long--it appears to have ended in 1963, when Pretty Paper by Roy Orbison, Allan Sherman's version of The Twelve Days of Christmas and Phil Spector's album "A Christmas Gift for You" came out.

Although an occasional Christmas release such as Snoopy's Christmas by the Royal Guardsmen (1966) would come out in subsequent years, the era when one could expect to hear new Christmas songs each year was essentially over.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wonderful rendition by Linda Purl.

The intro says she is the daughter of Irving Berlin, but I find no documentation of that anywhere. She has done shows that are tributes to Irving Berlin.

[EliRoom8]

Here's an idea. Celebrate the season and just leave all that religious stuff alone.

"Son," the father said, "you didn't see the main event, you only saw the circus parade."

[Liberty Valance]

Chris Rea ~ Driving Home For Christmas

[mylife]

Mark loves Christmas

[mylife]

Wonderful

https://youtu.be/46u75MN048U

[mylife]

The Guitar sounds very much like Wes Montgomery

Thanks

That was great. A real Lulu..

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump.....

[Bigg Red]

She did a nice job on the song, but Crosby’s rendition is da bomb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL71eMc1blw

By the way, my mother (1912-2007) did not like hearing that song. We did not have anyone in our immediate family in the war, but it just made her sad whenever she heard the tune during WWII. She did lose a cousin, a B-17 waist-gunner, in fighting over Germany, but they were not close.