The answer to yesterday's Carol Quiz is 'The Christmas Song' (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire).
Robert Wells wrote the words and 21 year-old Mel Torme wrote the music and recorded it in 1946. But Nat "King" Cole's version that year was the big hit, and remained Nat's Top 10 personal repertoire thereafter.
History of Christmas Carols...
This Christmas Carol was published in 1954 by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Styne and Cahn had written a string of hits for Frank Sinatra and Sinatra asked them to write a Christmas song to sing. They were a little reluctant to write one because Bing Crosby just had the mega hit: 'White Christmas.' What they came up with was a waltz.
NAME THAT CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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