"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmases. The morning after he wrote the song — Berlin usually stayed up all night writing — the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — hell, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!"
Berlin wrote the song in early 1940 and it was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1942 musical Holiday Inn.
In 1942 alone, the single spent eleven weeks on top of the charts. It returned to the #1 spot again during the holiday seasons of 1945 and 1946 (on the chart dated January 4, 1947), thus becoming the only single in history with three separate runs at the top of the U.S. charts. Eventually, Crosby's "White Christmas" single sold more than fifty million copies. The Guinness Book of World Records currently lists the song as a 100-million seller (this encompassing all versions of the song, including on albums).
No matter how wonderful Bing Crosby's version of White Christmas may be, it is not my favourite. Over the years the song was recorded by many many artists. Different styles and very different singers, from Louis Armstrong (1952), Rosemary Clooney (1954) and Dean Martin (1959) to Destiny's Child (1999), Chicago (2003) and Michael Bublé (2003).
My all time favourite is from The Carpenters, as presented on their album "Christmas Portrait" in 1978.
Source: Wikipedia
Four different midis to sing along :)
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten,
and children listen;
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
