The familiar carols proclaim this message, with “Joy to the World” resounding in thousands of churches, while its secular counterpart exhorts listeners to have “A Holly Jolly Christmas.” ...

Burl Ives' 1964 classic "A Holly Jolly Christmas" makes the latest such resurgence ... and has re-entered every year since. The song first hit a No. 4 high over the 2019 holidays, and has returned ...

Ives re-recorded the song in 1965 for his holiday album Have a Holly Jolly Christmas. The song finally made it to the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time in 2017, reaching a peak position ...

Professor Stowe has written a piece titled Christmas isn’t always holly jolly – even some of its ... to feel joy at the Los Angeles Times. “I have been researching music and religion for ...

melancholy Christmas song for a pandemic year — but most contemporary artists have followed the lead of Frank Sinatra, who famously altered the lyrics for his 1957 album, “A Jolly Christmas ...