The Story of an American Song by Jody Rosen' is an intriguing and insightful look at the story behind a holiday classic.

Celebrate the season with timeless Christmas song classics. Enjoy holiday tunes that bring festive cheer and warm memories for everyone.

Dreams of a white Christmas were planted by Charles Dickens, Victorian mass media and the Little Ice Age, historians say.

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

Where will the next future classics come from? Here’s one place to look, as our Billboard critic ranks the 30 best original Christmas songs by American Idol finalists from the series’ multiple ...

Americans are obsessed with a white Christmas and all the trimmings – snow, icicles, sleigh rides, frost on window panes, cuddling up by the fire, mittens, the North Pole. Christmas is a ...

The original recordings were instrumental versions. The song ... with Christmas since the 1960s. However, there were lyrical references to sleigh bells, snowflakes, and silver-white winters ...

By Hannah Dailey The holidays are here, which means Christmas music has fully infiltrated ... went the complete opposite direction with their original tracks, spurning festive stereotypes and ...

Christmas enthusiasts ... popular modernization of the song, initially sung by Eartha Kitt, with Henri René, and Joan Javits and Philip Springer writing the original lyrics.