The Magic of Christmas is a 1960 album by Nat King Cole, arranged and conducted by Ralph Carmichael. This was Cole's only complete album of Christmas songs, although he had recorded several holiday singles earlier in his career. One of these, "The Christmas Song", originally recorded in 1946, was re-recorded for the 1961 album The Nat King Cole Story. It is the best-selling Christmas album released in the 1960s, and was certified by the RIAA for shipments of 6 million copies in the U.S. The album was reissued in 1962 as The Christmas Song, with the title track added as the leadoff to Side 1 and "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" omitted. The 1962 version reached number 1 on Billboard's Christmas Albums chart and remained for two weeks. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mag...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)