Annie Zaleski

And so they ended up writing the song in like 45 minutes.

They immediately took the song to Hollywood.

And Nat King Cole liked the song enough that he recorded it the following year twice.

Actually, he did two separate takes in 1946.

But that song just sums it up right there.

That came out right as World War II ended.

And so there were a lot of people that there were...

getting back together, you know, trying to recover from a very, very difficult four years.

And so that also really kind of, you know, summed up and really provided a lot of comfort for families sort of in the opposite way that White Christmas did.

100%.

And I think that's, you know, his voice.

He had such a singular voice.

He was so deeply empathetic.

And he was such a wonderful interpreter.

He really lived the songs that he sang.

Oh, I love Blue Christmas.

Oh, absolutely.

And that came out in 1957.

And it's funny, he wasn't actually the first one to do it, which I was very interested about.

That had been recorded many times before he ended up tackling it.