- Tune Trivia: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Joy to the World are two of the oldest English language Christmas hymns, originating in the 1700s.
- Tune Trivia: While we associate "Jingle Bells" with Christmas, the song was written by James Lord Pierpont to celebrate Thanksgiving.
- Tune Trivia: "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree," and "Holly Jolly Christmas" were written by Jewish songwriter Johnny Marks.
- Tune Trivia: "White Christmas" was written by Jewish songwriter Irving Berlin.
- Tune Trivia: Irving Berlin originally wrote "White Chirstmas" for a Broadway musical that was never produced...
- ... It was then picked up by Hollywood producers who used it in Holiday Inn, a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.
- Tune Trivia: Irving Berlin hated Elvis Presley's version of "White Christmas" so much that he tried to prevent radio stations from playing Presley's cover.
- Tune Trivia: Bing Crosby's version of "White Christmas" is the highest-selling single of all time.
- Tune Trivia: In April 1975, the American military played "White Christmas" over Armed Forces Radio as a covert signal instructing soldiers in Vietnam to evacuate Saigon.
- Tune Trivia: Written for the 1944 film Meet Me in St. Louis, the original lyrics to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" were deemed too sad by both the film's director Vincente Minelli....
- ... and its star Judy Garland. They asked songwriter Vincente Minelli to rewrite sections of the song.
- Tune Trivia: In 1906, a violin solo of "O Holy Night" was the second piece of music ever be broadcast on radio.
- Tune Trivia: "Let It Snow" has made its way into the Christmas cannon despite the fact that it never once mentions the holiday and was written by Jewish songwriters Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.
- Tune Trivia: Bing Crosby's version of "Silent Night" is the THIRD highest-selling single of all time.
- Tune Trivia: "Jingle Bells" was the first song performed in space.
- Tune Trivia: Songwriter Gloria Shayne Baker wrote "Do You Hear What I Hear?" as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
- Tune Trivia: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer didn't originate in Jonny Marks' classic Christmas jingle. Instead, the character was created by Robert L. May, ...
- Tune Trivia: "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a song written by Frank Loesser in 1944. He wrote it to be performed by he and his wife at a party to encourage guests to go home. After five years of performances at innumerable parties,...
- ... he sold it to MGM, which inserted the song into its 1949 motion picture, Neptune`s Daughter”, winning Loesser an Academy Award for Best Original Song
- ... a staff copywriter for the Montgomery Ward department store as part of a series of holiday-themed coloring books sold by the retail giant.
- Tune Trivia: "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" is one of the oldest secular Christmas songs, originating in 16th century England.
- Tune Trivia: Mel Tormé's "The Christmas Song" (more commonly known as "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") was written during a summer heatwave in 1944.
- Tune Trivia: Singer Brenda Lee recorded the original version of "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" when she was only 13 years old.
- Tune Trivia: "Winter Wonderland" was written by Jewish songwriters Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith.
- Tune Trivia: Boston church leaders tried to have the song “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” banned in the 1950s because they thought it “promoted physical intimacy.”...
- ... Singer Jimmy Boyd had to fly to Boston and explain to them why it wasn’t obscene.
- Tune Trivia: “Silent Night” is the most recorded Christmas song in history, with over 733 different versions copyrighted since 1978.
