an old favorite

I think, of the non-religious Christmas songs, this one has to be my very favorite, and this singer's version is my favorite version:



I've heard it by others, including Mel Torme (who was one of the composers), but to me it just sounds so right by Nat King Cole.

I guess this is one way in which Randall Munroe is correct. And you know? It really doesn't bug me. I like the Bing Crosby/Dean Martin/Nat King Cole versions of Christmas pop better than I like most of the more-contemporaneous-with-me versions*; I think too many of the recent versions become more about the singer's vocal acrobatics or the electronic sweetening rather than the song itself. Or I may just be being crabby about it because the 1940s/50s versions are what my parents had on records when I was a child, and that's what I remember hearing.

(*though I will admit to not being very fond at all of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," it seems too knowing and coy by half.)