White Christmas song WikipediaWhite Christmas1. White Christmas by Bing Crosby on Decca Records, 1. For 60 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command CONAD have tracked Santas flight. Follow Santa as he makes his magical journeyA, with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and Chorus, Matrix DLA 3. Single by Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and Chorusfrom the album Song Hits from Holiday Inn. B side. Released. Dc9f8/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Christmas Is Here Again Watch Free Online' title='Christmas Is Here Again Watch Free Online' />Format. Recorded. May 2. 9, 1. March 1. Genre. Length. Label. Decca1. 94. MCA1. 98. 31. 98. SongwritersIrving Berlin. Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and Chorus singles chronology. Music videoWhite Christmas on You. TubeWhite Christmas is a 1. Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the worlds best sellingsingle with estimated sales in excess of 1. Other versions of the song, along with Crosbys, have sold over 1. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1. OnceUponAChristmasCD.jpg/_jcr_content/renditions/original.img.jpg' alt='Christmas Is Here Again Watch Free Online' title='Christmas Is Here Again Watch Free Online' />La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer director producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writinghe told his secretary, Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song Ive ever writtenheck, I just wrote the best song that anybodys ever written7Bing Crosby versionedit. V Disc release by the U. S. Army of White Christmas and Ill Be Home for Christmas by Bing Crosby as No. Watch free horror movies online at FrightPix. Watch scary full length feature films, legally, streaming online at FrightPix. B. Picture sleeve of 1. Decca Records 9 2. The first public performance of the song was by Bing Crosby, on his NBC radio show The Kraft Music Hall on Christmas Day, 1. Crosbys estate and was loaned to CBS News Sunday Morning for their December 2. He subsequently recorded the song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers and Chorus for Decca Records in just 1. May 2. 9, 1. 94. 2, and it was released on July 3. Holiday Inn. 58 At first, Crosby did not see anything special about the song. He just said I dont think we have any problems with that one, Irving. The song established and solidified the fact that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs1. Jewish American songwriter, who also wrote God Bless America. The song initially performed poorly and was overshadowed by Holiday Inns first hit song Be Careful, Its My Heart. By the end of October 1. White Christmas topped the Your Hit Parade chart. It remained in that position until well into the new year. It has often been noted that the mix of melancholyjust like the ones I used to knowwith comforting images of homewhere the treetops glistenresonated especially strongly with listeners during World War II. A few weeks after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Crosby introduced White Christmas on a Christmas Day broadcast. The Armed Forces Network was flooded with requests for the song. The recording is noted for Crosbys whistling during the second chorus. In 1. Crosbys recording spent eleven weeks on top of the Billboard charts. The original version also hit number one on the Harlem Hit Parade for three weeks,1. Crosbys first ever appearance on the black oriented chart. Re released by Decca, the single returned to the No. January 4, 1. 94. U. S. charts. The recording became a chart perennial, reappearing annually on the pop chart twenty separate times before Billboard magazine created a distinct Christmas chart for seasonal releases. In Holiday Inn, the composition won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1. In the film, Crosby sings White Christmas as a duet with actress Marjorie Reynolds, though her voice was dubbed by Martha Mears. This now familiar scene was not the moviemakers initial plan. In the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, would sing the song. The song would feature in another Crosby film, the 1. White Christmas, which became the highest grossing film of 1. Crosby made yet another studio recording of the song, accompanied by Joseph J. Lilleys orchestra and chorus, for the films soundtrack album. The version most often heard today on radio during the Christmas season is the 1. The 1. 94. 2 master was damaged due to frequent use. Crosby re recorded the track on March 1. Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers, with every effort made to reproduce the original recording session. The re recording is recognizable by the addition of flutes and celesta in the beginning. Although Crosby dismissed his role in the songs success, saying later that a jackdaw with a cleft palate could have sung it successfully, he was associated with it for the rest of his career. Formats and track listingeditThese are the formats and track listings of single releases of White Christmas. White ChristmasIrving Berlin. Lets Start The New Year RightIrving Berlin Sales figureseditCrosbys White Christmas single has been credited with selling 5. The Guinness Book of World Records 2. Edition lists the song as a 1. Crosbys holiday collection Merry Christmas was first released as an LP in 1. There has been confusion and debate on whether Crosbys record is or is not the best selling single, due to a lack of information on sales of White Christmas, because Crosbys recording was released before the advent of the modern day US and UK singles charts. However, after careful research, Guinness World Records in 2. Crosbys recording of White Christmas has, in their estimation, sold at least 5. Elton Johns recording of Candle in the Wind 1. Crosbys recording the best selling single of all time. However, an update in the 2. Johns and Crosbys songs to be winners by stating that Johns recording is the best selling single since UK and US singles charts began in the 1. White Christmas, which it says was listed as the worlds best selling single in the first ever Guinness Book of Records published in 1. Historic influenceeditIn 1. National Public Radio included it in the NPR 1. American musical works of the 2. Crosbys version of the song also holds the distinction of being ranked No. Songs of the Century list, behind only Judy Garlands Over the Rainbow, as voted by members of the RIAA. In 2. 00. 2, the original 1. Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2. 00. 4, it finished at No. AFIs 1. 00 Years. Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. The recording was broadcast on Armed Forces Radio on April 3. U. S. evacuation from Saigon. Original verseeditIrving Berlins opening verse is often dropped in recordings. It is included on A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records, sung by Darlene Love, on Barbra Streisands A Christmas Album, on the Carpenters Christmas Portrait sung by Karen Carpenter, on Bette Midlers Cool Yule, on Liberas Christmas Album and on Crash Test Dummies Jingle All the Way. The sun is shining, the grass is green,The orange and palm trees sway. I Want To Watch The Full Movie Of Adventure Time Movie. Theres never been such a dayin Beverly Hills, L. A. But its December the twenty fourth,And I am longing to be up North2. CertificationseditOther notable versionseditWhite Christmas is the most recorded Christmas song there have been more than 5. Gordon Jenkins and his Orchestra with Bob Carroll on lead vocal released a version Capitol F 1. No. 1. 6 on Billboard magazines pop singles chart2. Charlie Spivak and his Orchestra with Garry Stevens on lead vocal released a version that reached No. Billboards pop singles chart2. Freddy Martin and his Orchestra with Clyde Rogers on lead vocal, reaching No. Billboards pop singles chart and again in December 1. No. 1. 62. 61. Frank Sinatra with backing orchestration under the direction of Axel Stordahl reaching No. Billboards pop singles chart two more times December 1. No. 5 December 1. No. 62. 71. 94. Christmas Dcor of Ottawa. 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