The Christmas (film) is based on a book only titled Donny Hathaway.
The poem helped popularize the tradition of exchanging gifts, and seasonal Christmas shopping began to assume economic importance
 == Prologue ==After only one Christmas single (Harry Belafonte's "Mary's Boy Child", Top 100 #12) and only one Christmas album (Lawrence Welk's Merry Christmas, Best Selling Pops Albums #8) charted Billboard's major record surveys in 1956, seasonal entries began to increase the following year

