When did "My Favorite Things" become a Christmas song?

What's the earliest version to be explicitly set in a Christmas context? Example: Tony Bennett did it on 1968's Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album.

Wikipedia sez:

In 1964, Jack Jones became the first of many artists to include the song on a Christmas album.

Notwithstanding that it apparently debuted on a TV Christmas special in 1961, as noted above

(I’ve never thought of it as an Xmas song, or knew it was associated with Xmas in any way, btw)

she sings it in a thunder storm!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b096nEKfnms

Herb Alpert in 1968 with a bit of James Bond thrown in at the end.

But did think it was an utterly blinding piece of music that verged on the epiphanic, semi religious de/reconstruction of a show tune. seemed to not connect with others there, shame cos gosh innit great.

A friend of mine was in attendance at the Titans Of The Tenor! concert at Lincoln Center in 1966. Coltrane's group went on last. It was his quintet with Alice Coltrane, Rashied Ali, Pharoah Sanders, and Jimmy Garrison, with Don and Albert Ayler plus Carlos Ward sitting in. As soon as they started, people got up to leave, so my friend ran to the now-empty seats near the front. Then Trane played the theme from "My Favorite Things," and people returned...then left again immediately after the theme was done and the solos commenced.

warm woollen mittens?
brown paper packages tied up with string?

pretty fuckin christmassy if you ask me

Here’s a sort of deep dive article: https://www.billboard.com/culture/lifestyle/my-favorite-things-christmas-sound-of-music-8078515/

Jump into the deep end: "Baby It's Cold Outside" -- Holiday Song? Rapey?

Yeah - I've been hoping we'll forego a revive of that one this year... :/

Trane never did Jingle Bells did he?

he did Greensleeves, which is a Christmas song (in the US at least, I think?)

it’s the tune of “What Child Is This”

I can totally hear his soprano on jingle bells

the arrangement would be a bit more like this in terms of harmony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ6iKq2VDs8

when Ari Lennox recorded it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSP9yuSa7cY