White Christmas (song)
| "White Christmas" | ||||
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1942 78 single release of "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby on Decca Records, 18429 A, with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, Matrix # DLA 3009 | ||||
| Single by Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra | ||||
| from the album Song Hits from Holiday Inn | ||||
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| Released | July 30, 1942 (original)[1] | |||
| Recorded | May 29, 1942 March 19, 1947 | |||
| Studio | Radio Recorders (Los Angeles) (1942 recording)[2] | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Irving Berlin | |||
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"White Christmas" is a song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. Written by Irving Berlin for the 1942 musical film Holiday Inn, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Introduced by Bing Crosby, it topped the Billboard chart for 11 weeks and returned to the number one position again in December 1943 and 1944. His version would return to the top 40 a dozen times in subsequent years.
Since its release, "White Christmas" has been covered by many artists. Crosby's version is the world's best-selling single (in terms of sales of physical media), with estimated sales in excess of 50 million physical copies worldwide,[3] When the figures for other versions of the song are added to Crosby's, sales of the song exceed 100 million.[4][5][6] It also remains one of the best-selling singles in the United States with estimated physical copies sold between 10 and 12 million as of 1963.[7]
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