Here are seven oft-played Christmas songs that are played all the time, but aren’t directly related to Christmas. The animated film A Charlie Brown Christmas is a holiday classic. And yes ...

Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack album for ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas ... songs fitted in brilliantly with the animation in a show directed by Bill Melendez, they were also magical pieces of ...

Nanci Griffith’s 1994 song “On Grafton Street” details a recurring theme in Christmas music: wistful loneliness. She sings of being far from home while remembering someone who is no longer i ...

Popular myths about the classic holiday tune have circulated for decades, obscuring its origins on the minstrel stage.

The task of coming up with a new idea for a Christmas song must seem daunting ... “He sent me an email copy of the song and sheet music. I brought it to the piano and looked at it.

Nadine McKinnor, who wrote the lyrics to Hathaway’s music, told Jet magazine she felt "blessed to have written Donny a song that ... TV broadcast “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” ...

“I don’t want a lot for Christmas/ There ... Think of the former like the sheet music sitting on your piano (the songwriting), and the latter as the recorded song that you hear, he said.

When I dropped him off for the first of three rehearsals, we passed a girl crying in front of a sheet of paper taped ... of the 1965 movie, “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Watching this movie ...

and based on the Paul Kelly song of the same name. It’s a beautiful pastiche of Christmas sentiment and Charlie Brown musical hand-me-downs from the exquisite Vince Guaraldi. But it did not come ...