![]() ![]() ![]() He started the song with a verse describing a sunny day around a swimming pool in Southern California, but that verse is now seldom sung. ![]() In his book White Christmas: The Story of an American Song, author Jody Rosen reports that Irving Berlin had at first conceived of the song as a satire. Its popularity was also helped by appearances in the films Holiday Inn and White Christmas. His impression at the time was that "White Christmas" was just another holiday song, but it proved particularly popular with radio listeners, many of whom had family signing up to serve in the military. Crosby had sung the song the previous Christmas Day on his NBC radio show. Billboard and other charting services can only speculate because they had not begun tallying sales in 1942, the year that the original 78 RPM single was released by Decca Records. "White Christmas" as recorded by Bing Crosby may be the highest selling single ever. ![]()
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