It Must Be Getting Close to Christmas

A breezy, observational Christmas song recorded by Glen Campbell for his 1968 holiday album That Christmas Feeling. Cahn’s lyric takes stock of the familiar signs of the season — the rush, the decorations, the feeling in the air — with his trademark lightness of touch.

A companion piece to “Christmas Is for Children” on the same album, the two songs together show Cahn and Van Heusen covering the full emotional range of the holiday season.