Holiday Music Countdown: Number 17, with the Velvet Fog

Counting down my twenty-five favorite holiday songs. (Find previous posts here.) 17. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting by an Open Fire) (Mel Torme) Mel Torme co-wrote "The Christmas Song" with Bob Wells in 1944. From the Wikipedia article: "I saw a spiral pad on his piano with four lines written in pencil," Tormé recalled. "They …