Jingle Bells

This song was written in Thanksgiving of 1850 for the children in his father’s Sunday School class, The kids love it and was so popular that they sang it for Christmas too, BTW the “Jingle Bells” were added to the title in 1859.

Frosty the Snowman

Frosty the Snowman was written for cowboy singer Gene Autry, who had hit it big the year before singing “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” but it didn't catch on until it was featured on a 1969 TV special. 

Let It Snow

This is the non-Christmas, Christmas song. It was written to celebrate winter not Christmas and if you listen there closely, you'll notice there is no mention of Christmas. 

Grandma got run over by a reindeer

The writer Randy Brooks and his band had car trouble in Lake Tahoe and got stranded. They ended up being invited onstage at a local club to join headliners Elmo and Patsy Shropshire. Brooks played his novelty song, and Elmo and Patsy liked it so much they asked if they could cut it as a single. The rest is history. BTW Doctor Elmo really is a doctor ! He is a Veterinarian in Marin and it was written and recorded right here in Windsor California 

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I'll Be Home for Christmas

This song was originally thought to be too sad to play during a time that is supposed to be joyous. 

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

It was back in 1939, and a store called Montgomery Ward wanted to add some Christmas spirit to the shopping season by creating a free book for kids. It is said that the author just made up the story out of thin air but couldn't find a name and before he settled on Rudolph he tried Reginald , Rodney. Luckily and “Rollo the Red-Nosed Reindeer”

The Christmas Song

Sometimes known as Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, was written by Mel Tormé who spotted the potential in the lyrics sitting on the piano of his songwriter partner. He said what's this? His writing partner said “It’s so damn hot today, I thought I’d writing something to cool myself off.

Right there in LA in the middle of July another hit was written

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

This song was meant to happen. In 1944 the writer was working on the tune for a few days when he gave up and threw it in the trash His wiring partner saw it , made him get it out of the garbage and put some words to it. A Holiday Hit was born

White Christmas

This is actually a sad song , the writer's son died on Christmas, he wrote this song in the middle of summer as he remembered his son while sitting by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Bing Crosby made it famous when he sang it to the troops in WW2 who were low and missing that feeling of Christmas with the ones they loved. 

Have a Holly Jolly Christmas

Banjo playing Folk singer Burl Ives mad this one of the Top 25 most-performed "holiday" songs. When he sang it as the snowman in the tv show Frosty the Snowman 

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

The story behind this song isn't the song itself, but the person who and it. Brenda Lee wanted to have that winter Christmas feeling so they brought a Christmas tree into the studio and turned the air conditioning in the studio down as low as they could go .
 

Sleigh Ride

It wasn't written in the winter but during a July heat wave and drought in the middle of July. The writer was out in his back yard working on his summer home when the idea came to him in 1948

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