All I Want for Christmas Is YouMariah Carey’s 1994 hit sounds as if it was blessed with the twinkling stardust that seems to be falling in its opening notes: after decorating her home with Christmas decorations in the height of summer, it was written in just 15 minutes.
That’s perhaps a bit of myth-making – co-writer Walter Afanasieff has said the core melody and chords took an hour, and they actually carried on tinkering with it for a couple of weeks before recording it – but much like Father Christmas himself, it’s something you want to believe in.
Afanasieff was riffing with a one-handed boogie-woogie piano line, and Mariah started singing over the top. He was initially horrified, thinking her rising and falling melody sounded like.
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