Providing the cheerful, winsome, moving background music of the holiday is these artists’ enduring gift to all of us. The great performer Bing Crosby reached the height of his stardom about 80 years ...

Popular Christmas songs, like advertising, are one of the clearest windows into the American psyche. Long after we’re gone, they will remain—perhaps on files encoded in an as-yet-uninvented format, or ...

The song begins with a Christmas-y chime. It's the sound of a celesta — an instrument featured in Tchaikovsky's Christmas classic “The Nutcracker.” Carey’s hit also uses the sleigh bell, which became ...

Christmas is one of the largest American holidays, which might sound like a no-brainer to most, but the holiday season starts directly after Halloween and leads up to the Christmas holiday. It is a ...

There’s something truly magical about a classic Christmas song and its ability to fill a person with the Christmas spirit, conjure memories of the kind of holiday you’re meant to dream of when Bing ...