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A new, full-color
464 page, 9 inch by 12 inch, 4-color
Christmas Music History Coffee Table Book

From "Jingle Bells" to "Jingle Bell Rock" and beyond! In words and stunning magical images, this groundbreaking book takes you on a musical Christmas journey, and makes for a unique keepsake or gift you'll want to bring out every year!

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Featuring:

• Over 500 glorious color images from the 1800's through the new millennium of your favorite holiday characters and singers like Bing Crosby, Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer, Judy Garland, The Carpenters, The Beatles' John Lennon, Nat King Cole, Brenda Lee, Burl Ives, Gene Autry, and many, many others!!
• New research and historical information on our cherished Christmas songs' creation and growth
• Remarkable, exclusive photographs from the 1800's through the 1990's
• 60 years of rare antique holiday sheet music covers ranging from the 1920's through the 1980's
• Exclusive, never-before-published artist's paintings of the creation of "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town," and Clement C. Moore, composer of Twas The Night Before Christmas
• Handwritten signatures of the singers and songwriters who created our unforgettable holiday hits
• Rare, never-before-published letters written by the Christmas songwriters themselves
• Photos of Christmas 45's and LP's from the 1940's through 2000, as well as 78 records that go back to the early 1900's
• Original material obtained by research including exclusive interviews with songwriters, artists and producers like:
  • Gene Autry (original singer of "Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer")
  • Brenda Lee (original singer of "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree")
  • Owen Bradley (producer of "Jingle Bell Rock," "Holly Jolly Christmas," & "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"
  • Anita Kerr (background singer on dozens of holiday songs including "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree")
  • Hugh Martin (co-writer of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas")
  • Frank Pooler (co-writer of The Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling")
  • and many others!
• Song discographies
• Christmas Charts
• The stories behind the creation of your favorite Christmas Songs told from the artist's, songwriter's and producer's point of view

• Full chapters on:
  • Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town
  • White Christmas
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas: Click here to read a letter of praise for this book written by Hugh Martin, who co-wrote the song, "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" for Judy Garland to sing in the movie, "Meet Me In St Louis."
  • Here Comes Santa Claus
  • Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer: Click here to read a letter of praise for this book written by the son of Robert L. May, who wrote the book, "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer."
  • Caroling, Caroling
  • Jingle Bell Rock
  • Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
  • A Holly Jolly Christmas
  • Merry Christmas Darling
  • Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
  • It Must Have Been The Mistletoe
  • Do They Know It's Christmas?
  • O Little Town Of Bethlehem
  • Plus the stories behind many other favorite Christmas songs!!!

Find out:

• Why Judy Garland adamantly refused to sing the original version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
• How Bing Crosby's groundbreaking 1935 charity recording of "Silent Night" opened the door for the phenomenal success of "White Christmas"
• What famous 1920's vaudeville comedian introduced "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" on his number-one-rated radio program, and which singer turned it into a rock-and-roll anthem in 1984
• Which European Christmas melody is mentioned in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives Of Windsor
• What yuletide evergreen did a certain songwriter help craft years before he co-penned the theme song to Gilligan's Island
• Who was only 13 years old when she recorded one of the most successful Christmas songs of the rock and roll era
• Which 1990 Christmas song Natalie Cole, Amy Grant and Barbra Streisand helped turn into a rare post-60's holiday heart-wringer
• What 1950's country western singer became a pop rock idol after he reluctantly agreed to record the first rock and roll Christmas hit
• Why Elvis Presley recorded Gene Autry's "Here Comes Santa Claus"
• Where Barbra Streisand was when she first heard "It Must Have Been The Mistletoe," a song she had to include on her 2001 Christmas album
• Which author relied upon his 1939 holiday creation to help lull his grief-stricken daughter to sleep every night
• What Nat King Cole yuletide classic would never have been recorded had it not been for a promise of the heart a young woman made to her husband days before he died
• Which 1800's preacher and Christmas songwriter delivered an elegiac sermon as Abraham Lincoln's slain body lay in state at Philadelphia's Independence Hall

The answers to these and countless other delightful historical questions are in Angels We Have Heard: The Christmas Song Stories.

This book is available now in a limited first edition.
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The Number 1 music publishers of "Original"
CHRISTMAS, HANUKKAH, (CHANUKAH), HALLOWEEN
and other holiday songs.

"It Must Have Been
The Mistletoe"

The complete story and description of how this song was written, published, and has sold over 5 million cassettes and CD's.
Known as "Mr. Christmas," Justin Wilde co-created Barbra Streisand's Christmas song, "It Must Have Been The Mistletoe." Read an excerpt from Angels We Have Heard: The Christmas Song Stories, which tells the incredible tale of how he single-handedly turned his tune into a modern-day holiday standard, and learn more about his unique holiday music publishing company.