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From ‘Last Christmas’ to ‘Jingle Bell Rock,’ Some of the Biggest Holiday Hits Have Outlived Their Performers
A slight majority of songs on Billboard’s Holiday 100 chart are by artists who have passed on, from Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, John Lennon and more.
Several of the artists who provide the soundtrack to holiday specials, parties and trips to the mall have been dead longer than most of the current pop audience has been alive. Vince Guaraldi, whose music for A Charlie Brown Christmas has been a part of every holiday season since that Peabody-winning TV special first aired in 1965, died in 1976. 75, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” (Bing Crosby With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires & John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra, 1957)
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