|
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is a popular Christmas song written in 1963 by Edward Pola and George Wyle. It was recorded and released that year by pop singer Andy Williams for his first Christmas album, ''The Andy Williams Christmas Album''. However, the song was not released as a promotional single by Williams' record label (Columbia Records) that year, as they instead opted to promote his cover of "White Christmas" as the official promo single from the album. ==Background== The song is a celebration and description of activities associated with the Christmas season, focusing primarily on get-togethers between friends and families. Among the activities included in the song is the telling of "scary ghost stories," a Victorian Christmas tradition that has mostly fallen into disuse,〔(Telling ghost stories is a lost tradition on Christmas Eve, By Jeffrey Peterson, Deseret News Thursday, Dec. 23 2010 )〕〔(Told After Supper, Jerome K. Jerome )〕 but survives in the seasonal popularity of numerous adaptations of Charles Dickens' ''A Christmas Carol''. Other activities mentioned include hosting parties, spontaneous visits from friends, universal social gaiety, spending time with loved ones, sledding for children, kissing under the mistletoe, roasting marshmallows, sharing stories about previous Christmases, and singing Christmas carols weather. In a 2005 interview, Williams discusses how ''The Andy Williams Show'' figured into his recording of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year": "George Wyle, who is a vocal director, who wrote all of the choir stuff and all of the duets and trios and things that I did with all the guests, he wrote a song just for the show -- I think the second Christmas show we did -- called "Most Wonderful Time of the Year". So I did that, you know, every Christmas, and then other people started doing it. And then suddenly it's become—not suddenly but over 30 years—it's become a big standard. I think it's one of the top 10 Christmas songs of all time now."〔Williams, Andy. Interviewed by Karen Herman. Archive of American Television, A Program of the Television Academy Foundation. emmytvlegends.org, 19 September 2005. Retrieved 12 October 2011.〕 In the issue of ''Billboard'' magazine dated November 28, 2009, the list of the "Top 10 Holiday Songs (Since 2001)" places the Williams recording of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" at No. 5. 2001 also marked the first year in which the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) started compiling data regarding the radio airplay of holiday songs, and although the Williams classic started out at No. 25 of twenty-five songs that were ranked that year,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ASCAP Announces Top 25 Holiday Songs -- Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" Tops List )〕 it gained steam over the next ten years, reaching No. 18 in 2002,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ASCAP Updates Top 25 Holiday Song List -- "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)" Tops List )〕 No. 13 in 2003,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ASCAP Announces the Top 25 Holiday Songs -- "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" Tops List )〕 and eventually getting to No. 4 in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Sleigh Ride" Tops ASCAP's List of Most-Played Holiday Songs in 2010 )〕 The song was also selected as the theme song for Christmas Seals in both 2009 and 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|