Video: She & Him - The Christmas Song

It was December, 1994 and I was looking for a holiday story. I was working at KTRH Radio in Houston at the time and I had the idea of putting together a montage of artists who had performed "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" to celebrate the song's 50th anniversary. But in the end, I didn't think that would do the song justice, so I had the bright idea of calling up one of the song's composers, the incomparable Mel Torme'. I had interviewed him the year before when he played with the Houston Symphony and had his [...]