Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - The Carpenters - MP3 instrumental karaoke

For many, the festive season would be nothing without The Carpenters' essential 1978 album Christmas Portrait. As creamy and festive as a glass of eggnog, "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)"—which was originally written in 1945 by Robert Wells and Mel Tormé—is nestled at number nine on the album (whose artwork by Robert Tanenbaum is modelled on Norman Rockwell's 1960 painting "Triple Self-Portrait," created as a cover for The Saturday Evening Post) and shows Karen Carpenter at her best. In 2022, the 1961 Nat King Cole recording of "Christmas Song" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and the tune has been covered by countless other artists including Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, John Legend, Luther Vandross, Mary J. Blige, NSYNC, Justin Bieber, and Pentatonix among others.