At no other time of the year, it seems, do genuine warmth and affection seem so natural. Friends are remembered, family ties are bound more tightly, and the whole world is a brighter, cleaner place.

Christmas feels good. 

Whether the day breaks cold and tingling or warm and sultry, there's that unmistakable something in the air everywhere that says CHRISTMAS! And in tinsel-hung capital letters.

It's a special time for everyone. Children greet the morning saucer-eyed at the tree and the gaily wrapped wonders beneath it. Grown-ups wake to find the most important things all about them in those they love.

For Christmas is a family time . . . a time for being with the ones you love. A time for the happy ring of the telephone. A time for the joyful peal of the front doorbell. A time for reaching out across the months and the miles to share a happy event.

"Home for Christmas" is more than a pat phrase. It means a bounding up the steps, a hearty hug, and a spell of breathless chattering. "Home for Christmas" can be the three most important words of this season, for one is a very lonely number when the bells begin to peal on Christmas Eve and the lights begin to glow in the early winter evening.

Christmas is so many things . . . so many good things. It's snow sifting down on a quiet town . . . the bright lights and the decorations . . . the last-minute shopping . . . happy cards coming and coming with every mail call . . . the merry Christmas songs and the gentle sacred carols . . . the glorious kitchen smells filling an entire house . . . the mistletoe and the laughter . . . the opening of the gifts . . . the being with each other.

It's time for going to church to hear again that old, old story of Bethlehem and the star and the Child born in the manger, so humbly. It's the time for prayers of gratitude for this day . . . this life. 

And running through every celebration of Christmas, there is the music . . . the songs everyone knows and loves. 

These are the songs Perry Como sings in this album. The seasonal songs are here, such happy tunes as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Winter Wonderland, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, White Christmas and more. 

And the sacred songs are here, too. Such lovely carols as O Holy Night, Come to the Manger, The First Noël, and O Little Town of Bethlehem, among others. 

These are the songs of this season of love, presented by a man who sings them simply and sweetly. The warmth and the feeling of Christmas are in his voice. The message of love is in the songs. And this combination brings a fresh quality to these familiar songs of Christmas. 

They bring to you the happiest, warmest, sincerest wishes of this season of love.