The Magic of Christmas (Nat King Cole album)
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| Studio album by Nat King Cole | ||||
| Released | 1960 | |||
| Recorded | 5–7 July 1960 at Capitol Studios, Hollywood | |||
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Vocal jazz Christmas music |
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| Length | 31 minutes | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Lee Gillette | |||
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The Magic of Christmas is a 1960 album by Nat King Cole, arranged and conducted by Ralph Carmichael.
This was Cole's only full album of Christmas songs, although he had recorded several holiday singles earlier in his career. One of these, "The Christmas Song", originally recorded in 1946, was re-recorded for the 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story. In 1963 The Magic of Christmas was reissued under the title The Christmas Song, with that recording added to the track list in place of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and with new cover art.
It is the best-selling Christmas album released in the 1960s, and was certified by the RIAA for shipments of 6 million copies in the U.S. The 1963 version reached number 1 on Billboard's Christmas Albums chart and remained for two weeks.
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