Chestnuts

I think this is the first or second time hearing Nat King Cole sing his chestnut this year, and I assume that's him on the piano.

It's so good,  and I wonder if the vocals were recorded separately or if piano and vocals were recorded together with instruments added later.

Noticed this time that there's something in the way he pronounces that pesky word "child" that is problematic for Maureen McGovern in "Toyland."

I wouldn't be surprised if songs like that,  and "There's Always Tomorrow " with their wistful but nonreligious lyric make it onto more Christmas playlists.