SKU: A0.790257

* Key of G *
This chart is a 7-piece band arrangement of ‘The Christmas Song' written by Mel Torme in the style as performed by the Carpenters. It includes the verse as well as the well-known chorus.

The keyboard/piano part features cues for horns and strings for use as a rhythm section chart.

The instrumentation is:

keyboards
guitar
bass
drums
trumpet
tenor sax 
trombone

SKU: A0.856159

I was surprised to learn that this song was originally intended only as an album cut, but when country singer Lynn Anderson's cover was a hit, the Carpenters also released it as a single.

This arrangement of the classic Carpenters feel-good tune was commissioned for a mixed quartet of three women with a male bass. This allows it to sit in a mellow tessitura for the upper parts, nurtured by the warmth of the male voice in its middle, most relaxed part of the range.