The best Christmas song to blast your eardrums out to. "Carol of the Bells" is the most epic — and maybe kinda creepy? — ...

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey and "Christmastime Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi Trio are among the best ...

To celebrate the holidays, we’re looking back at four archive Fresh Air interviews discussing popular Christmas songs: First, jazz singer Mel Torme tells Terry Gross about co-writing “The Christmas ...

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 ...

Many classic Christmas songs have remarkable Cincinnati connections, from Andy Williams to the composer behind the Grinch.

Christmas music is a big part of the music industry. John Yang speaks with Nate Sloan, an assistant professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music and co-host of the podcast Switched On ...

Decades before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” became a Christmas classic, Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” ruled the airwaves. Born in Montgomery, Ala. in 1919, Nathaniel Adams ...