When and how did 'My Favorite Things' become a Christmas song?

Answer 1

"what idiot thinks this is a Christmas song?"

Well this idiot, me, never thought it was seeing as it was in The Sound of Music and not in a Christmas scene! But hey it had snowflakes and bright colored packages and by gum when Julie Andrews and Barbra Streisand sang it, the latter being a Jewish girl making a Christmas album, maybe she figured she could squeeze in an "iffy" song!

But they made it sound joyful and happy and materialistic best of all! I remember when Lorrie Morgan stuck it on a Christmas album in 1993 and with some bells the song had come out of the closet as a holiday tune! But the upside to me really is you can sing it and still feel you're not quite being sucked in by a 100% Christmas song. It's still there for you when you're down and out in the heat of July and you want to think of some good memories, even substitute a few things in there. I know where "corn chips and salsa" fits in quite nicely!

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It pretty much is because Julie Andrews performed it on the Christmas Special for the Gary Moore show in 1961. Various artists then proceeded to put their own renditions on their Christmas albums in subsequent years: Jack Jones in 1964, Eddie Fisher, The Supremes, and Andy Williams in 1965,

Barbara Streisand in 1967, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and Tony Bennett in 1968, Johny Mathis in 1969. Apparently after 8 or 9 years showing up on famous singer's Christmas albums it became entrenched as a Christmas song - deserved or not.

Answer 2

"what idiot thinks this is a Christmas song?"

Well this idiot, me, never thought it was seeing as it was in The Sound of Music and not in a Christmas scene! But hey it had snowflakes and bright colored packages and by gum when Julie Andrews and Barbra Streisand sang it, the latter being a Jewish girl making a Christmas album, maybe she figured she could squeeze in an "iffy" song!

But they made it sound joyful and happy and materialistic best of all! I remember when Lorrie Morgan stuck it on a Christmas album in 1993 and with some bells the song had come out of the closet as a holiday tune! But the upside to me really is you can sing it and still feel you're not quite being sucked in by a 100% Christmas song. It's still there for you when you're down and out in the heat of July and you want to think of some good memories, even substitute a few things in there. I know where "corn chips and salsa" fits in quite nicely!

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It pretty much is because Julie Andrews performed it on the Christmas Special for the Gary Moore show in 1961. Various artists then proceeded to put their own renditions on their Christmas albums in subsequent years: Jack Jones in 1964, Eddie Fisher, the Supremes, and Andy Williams in 1965,

Barbara Streisand in 1967, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass and Tony Bennett in 1968, Johny Mathis in 1969. Apparently after 8 or 9 years showing up on famous singer's Christmas albums it became entrenched as a Christmas song - deserved or not.