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It's the most wonderful time of the year. As Christmas approaches, we pick the classic songs you need on your festive playlist

Do you ever get tired of hearing Nat King Cole croon about “chestnuts roasting on an open fire” during the Christmas season?

LOS ANGELES — The songs nominated for the 2022 Emmy for original music and lyrics are each haunted by something. Some are lively, even wacky homages that resurrect sounds of the past — the grand, old "Oklahoma!"-type musical; a calypso wedding toast delivered by (a fictional version of) Harry Belafonte.

‘We’ve been married 50 years,’ the skater says.

The jazz guitar great remains in awe of Etta James, Nat King Cole and Mario Lanza, but what’s the disco classic he’d recommend to get a party started?

Lionel J. Washington Sr. passed away peacefully as the world continued to obsess over Will Smith’s slap. The Oscar-winning actor could learn a thing or two from my treasured Uncle Lionel.

Twin sisters Casey and Timolin Cole were born into a life of unusual luxury in Hancock Park to a father nicknamed "King" whose success was so great that the historic Capitol Records building not far away in Hollywood was nicknamed "The House That Nat Built."

Cole, who died this week on Feb. 15, was performing in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 10, 1956, when KKK members stormed the stage and attacked him.

Long-haired and vegetarian, with no interest in money, eden ahbez, the writer of Nat King Cole’s 1948 classic Nature Boy, is only now being recognised as the first of the hippies