Johnny Mathis thinks “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” The song was written specifically for Andy Williams’ TV variety show’s Christmas episode in 1963 by its vocal director George Wyle and co-composer Edward Pyle. As of November, 2016 it was the seventh most-played holiday song of the last fifty years. More amazingly, for the week of December 8, 2018 it ranks Number 2 on the Billboard Holiday 100 chart.