[3] Hitting the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1961, the tune, which Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd[note 1], peaked at position number 76.

Billboard Hot 100, the first Christmas song to reach the Top 20 on that chart since Roy Orbison's "Pretty Paper" in 1963.

This was the first Eagles song to feature Timothy B. Schmit on bass (having replaced founding member Randy Meisner the previous year).

A live version of the song was included on the compilation 4-CD box set called Selected Works: 1972–1999 released in 2000.

[6] Jon Bon Jovi also covered the song on the 1992 holiday album A Very Special Christmas 2 in the style of Eagles.