https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_yQhALyAx0

"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 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Torme'.

GOOGLE IS ONLY RETURNING HITS ON IT BEING A nat king cole owned song - who "borrowed it" a year later.

I have typed ina few things on a couple searches that should lead to one race, but the searches reverse it to another race.?

Frank Sinatra, Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJr0YOtIcm8

Many other special TV and Holly moments in Christmas musicals.

Is “trading places” a Christmas movie?

This man, Barry Manilow, has written more of the memorable songs you've heard than maybe any other artist in a century has. The kind of music you hear in big commercial ads, on musak in elevators and restaurants, and also past top 10 hits rock stations.

this is tv special, some of these recordings were on rock radio every year during christmas, you can see the live audience is "captured". not the most magical christmas moment on tv but recordings are still played.

the shame is most people know so many of his songs and have no idea he wrote them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=farQ0Z_FP4U

judy garland: have yourself a merry little christmas

"flavowire: strip wires with your teeth, taste the metal"

SCROOGE (1970), a musical



"i like life"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Pk1jcaLDI

What Millenials don't understand is that TV decades ago used to air broadway musicals, sometimes live (from broadway, not hollywood imdb film). Also the video rental stores (when they were around for a short decade) had broadway for rent - usually picked over hollywood versions.

It's a part of TV history that you can't google because google is pushing hollywood owned films that are digitized and (still under viewing license).

allot of TV specials that were "spectacular" weren't part of any movie or regular tv, they were just called "specials"

i think they were all lost in the great hollywood fires !

at any rate, it'd be very hard for a millenial to know what TV decades ago was like (when there was no cable).

for one think allot was repetitive reruns done seasonally great shows though (the first 10 times?)

specials were something you sat down for they didn't happen often

many were live broadcast - some just parts of live theater. they weren't kept digitally or preserved - they likely can't even say what the past TV schedules were today.

... the TV Guide would just say "Special"

you'd have no idea what rabbit they'd pull out of the hat

> for one thing allot was repetitive reruns

Scheduled Extremely Strictly ...

you only watched cartoons saturday mornings

you only saw the stooges and shirly Temple sundays: not cartoons (in the 80's bruce lee was added, later cartoons after the above where before cartoons were only for saturday)

M-F after school only after school specials played (later in 80's, taxi and other shows). early in evening andy griffith, later in evening shows like Quincy, later than that, maybe Rockford Files or something "rough" (with no swear words btw)

the only way you'd see a cartoon M-F is if you were sick and stayed home: and they all sucked and were meant for 3 yr olds

REPEAT

> the only way you'd see a cartoon M-F is if you were sick and stayed home: and they all sucked and were meant for 3 yr olds. you'd be sick and turn to tv to help your cold and turn it back off out of boredom.

most kids seldom got "desert" and were not allowed to ever eat without parents permission. simply wasn't allowed even in middle class families that had the ways and means.

shirley Temple sang "you belong to me" (a popular adult song at the time)

youtube doesn't have it. was one of her best televised songs. saw it like 1M times because there was nothing else to do or watch sunday morning