"The Christmas Album"", charted at No. 13 on the Italian Singles Chart based on digital downloads of the track. White Christmas (song) ""White Christmas"" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 50 million copies. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the"
"Holiday Inn (film) Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. With music by Irving Berlin, the composer wrote twelve songs specifically for the film, the best known being ""White Christmas"". The film features a complete reuse of the song ""Easter Parade"", written by Berlin for the 1933 Broadway revue ""As Thousands Cheer"". The film's choreography was by Danny Dare. The film received a 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song (Irving Berlin for ""White Christmas""), as well as Academy Award nominations for Best Score (Robert Emmett Dolan) and"
"(1942), ""Blue Skies"" (1946) and ""Easter Parade"" (1948), with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, and ""There's No Business Like Show Business"" (1954). The 1942 film ""Holiday Inn"" introduced ""White Christmas"", one of the most recorded songs in history. First sung in the film by Bing Crosby (along with Marjorie Reynolds, whose voice was dubbed by Martha Mears), it has sold over 50 million records and stayed no. 1 on the pop and R&B charts for 10 weeks. Crosby's version is the best-selling single of all time. Music critic Stephen Holden credits this partly to the fact that ""the song also"
"in ensuing decades include: In their ""admittedly subjective"" list of the top Christmas songs of all time, ThoughtCo. ranked their top five favorites as: In 2007 surveys of United States radio listeners by two different research groups, the most liked songs were standards such as Bing Crosby's ""White Christmas"" (1942), Nat King Cole's ""The Christmas Song"" (1946), and Burl Ives' ""A Holly Jolly Christmas"" (1965). Other favorites like ""Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"" (Brenda Lee, 1958), ""Jingle Bell Rock"" (Bobby Helms, 1957) and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's ""Happy Xmas"" (1971), scored well in one study. Also ""loved"" were Johnny"
"love for one another, as do Phil and Judy. The background of the set is removed to show the snow falling, everyone raises a glass, and toasts, ""May your days be merry and bright; and may all your Christmases be white."" All songs were written by Irving Berlin. The centerpiece of the film is the title song, first used in ""Holiday Inn"", which won that film an Oscar for Best Original Song in 1942. In addition, ""Count Your Blessings"" earned the picture its own Oscar nomination in the same category. The song ""Snow"" was originally written for ""Call Me Madam"""
"Happy Holiday (song) ""Happy Holiday"" (sometimes performed as ""Happy Holidays"") is a popular song composed by Irving Berlin during 1942 and published the following year. ""Happy Holiday"" was introduced by Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds (dubbed by Martha Mears) in the 1942 film ""Holiday Inn"" in a scene when the Inn opens for the first time. While it is commonly regarded as a Christmas song, in the film it is performed on New Year's Eve, and expresses a wish for the listener to enjoy ""happy holidays"" throughout the entire year. Jo Stafford was the first to record and release it"
"to the film ""White Christmas"" to advance the relationship between the characters played by Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney. The sentimental theme reminds listeners to remember how much they are blessed instead of fretting about short-term problems. It was nominated for an Academy Award as ""Best Song"" but was defeated by ""Three Coins in the Fountain"" from the movie of the same name written by Jule Styne and lyricist Sammy Cahn. It was performed on the 1955 Academy Awards telecast by vocalist Peggy King. The best-known recordings were made by Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby — who both appeared in"
"Singers. In 1942, American Decca released the first recording of ""White Christmas"" by Bing Crosby. He recorded another version of the song in 1947 for Decca; to this day, Crosby's recording of ""White Christmas"" for Decca remains the best-selling single worldwide of all time. In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's ""Oklahoma!"", performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal"
"Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas The Voice of Christmas: The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook is a two-disc collection of Christmas music recorded by Bing Crosby for the Decca label between 1935 and 1956, released by Universal Music Group on October 6, 1998. Crosby was the first popular singer to record Christmas songs, and his 1942 recording of ""White Christmas"" for the movie ""Holiday Inn"" is the best-selling single of all-time. The most prolific period for his Christmas recordings was between 1942 and 1955, including his Christmas songs recorded with The Andrews Sisters. Crosby continued to record Christmas titles for"
"The Christmas Song ""The Christmas Song"" (commonly subtitled ""Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"" or, as it was originally subtitled, ""Merry Christmas to You"") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer. In an effort to ""stay cool by thinking cool"", the most-performed (according to BMI) Christmas song was born. ""I saw a spiral pad on his (Wells') piano with four lines written in pencil"", Tormé recalled. ""They started, 'Chestnuts roasting..., Jack Frost nipping..., Yuletide carols..., Folks dressed up like Eskimos.' Bob"
"hit song: ""Be Careful, It's My Heart"". By the end of October 1942, ""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 melancholy—""just like the ones I used to know""—with comforting images of home—""where the treetops glisten""—resonated 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 Crosby's whistling"
"film songs. They received an Oscar nomination for the song ""Country Fair"" from the film ""So Dear to My Heart"". Their most famous work together is ""The Christmas Song"". Wells had written what would become the first four lines of the song on a hot day in July, 1945. Tormé had come over to visit, and saw the lines written out on a notepad. Wells thought the idea of writing a Christmas song was a good means of cooling off in the hot California summer, and Tormé agreed. The song was completed in 40 minutes, and went on to become"
"Christmas Greetings (album) Christmas Greetings is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1949 featuring popular Christmas songs. Crosby had recorded Christmas songs for the first time in 1935 and he had a huge hit with ""Silent Night"" that year. In 1942, he recorded ""White Christmas"" with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers for Decca Records in just 18 minutes on May 29, 1942, and it was released on July 30 as part of an album of six 78-rpm discs from the film ""Holiday Inn"". In 1943, he recorded three more songs"
"ensure that ""this"" Christmas album would not be easily ignored. Much of the remaining program was performed in a more traditional manner appropriate to the solemnity of Christmas, although Elvis's innate sense of occasion shone through on his left-of-centre reading of Ernest Tubb's 1949 hit, ""Blue Christmas."" ""Silent Night"" and ""O Little Town of Bethlehem"" were arranged by Elvis Presley. The Bing Crosby holiday perennial ""White Christmas,"" which appeared every year on the ""Billboard"" charts from 1942 to 1962, became the center of controversy upon the album's release, with calls by the song's composer Irving Berlin to have the song,"
"appeared in his movie ""Holiday Inn"" (1942). His record hit the charts on October 3, 1942, and rose to No. 1 on October 31, where it stayed for 11 weeks. A holiday perennial, the song was repeatedly re-released by Decca, charting another sixteen times. It topped the charts again in 1945 and a third time in January 1947. The song remains the bestselling single of all time. According to ""Guinness World Records"", his recording of ""White Christmas"" has sold over 100 million copies around the world, with at least 50 million sales as singles. His recording was so popular that"
"a version by American ""a capella"" group Pentatonix which had already been released on their Christmas album shortly before Cohen's death, were added into Christmas music playlists on radio stations in the United States and Canada. Christmas songs introduced in theater, television, and film include ""White Christmas"" from ""Holiday Inn"" (1942), ""Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"" from ""Meet Me in St. Louis"" (1944), and ""Silver Bells"" in ""The Lemon Drop Kid"" (1950). Some musical films have been set around Christmas time, and because of that some of the songs are popular during the holiday season, including: A popular form"
"for which he was later convicted. Baby, It's Cold Outside ""Baby, It's Cold Outside"" is an Academy Award-winning popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944, which gained wide recognition in 1949 when it was performed in the film ""Neptune's Daughter"". While the lyrics make no mention of any holiday, it is popularly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme. The song was released in no fewer than 8 recordings in 1949 and has been covered numerous times since. During the 1940s, whenever Hollywood celebrities attended parties, they were expected to perform. In 1944, Loesser wrote ""Baby,"
"Crosby's signature song ""White Christmas"" on shellac disc record. The 1942 version would only be released only one more time, in ""Merry Christmas"" in 1945 before the song was re-recorded (because the original master recording wore out) and the later version became the standard. Billboard was very enthusiastic saying: These newly issued songs were featured on a 6-disc, 78 rpm album set, Decca Album No. A-306. Discs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 are sung by Bing Crosby while Disc 5 is sung by Fred Astaire. On Disc 4, both sing on the track ""I'll Capture Your Heart"". All songs"
"Christmas Holiday Christmas Holiday is a 1944 film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, the film is about a woman who marries a Southern aristocrat who inherited his family's streak of violence and instability and soon drags the woman into a life of misery. After he is arrested, the woman runs away from her husband's family, changes her name, and finds work as a singer in a New Orleans dive. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical"
"by Mary Martin and other members of the original Broadway cast of the 1959 musical ""The Sound of Music"". Vic Dana first charted with ""Little Altar Boy"" in 1961 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, where he reached number 45, and Bing Crosby reached number two on the Christmas Singles chart in 1963 with ""Do You Hear What I Hear?"". ""Christmas Holiday"" was composed by Craig Vincent Smith, a member of The Good Time Singers folk group that regularly appeared on ""The Andy Williams Show"" . Smith also composed ""Salesman"", recorded by The Monkees for their 1967 album ""Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn"
"Please Come Home for Christmas ""Please Come Home for Christmas"" is a Christmas song, released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. Hitting ""Billboard""’s Hot 100 chart in December 1961, the tune Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd peaked at position #76. It appeared on the Christmas Singles chart for nine seasons, hitting #1 in 1972. It includes a number of characteristics of Christmas music, such as multiple references in the lyrics to the Christmas season and , and the use of a Church bell type sound, created using tubular bells, at the start of the song."
"print in 1833. ""O Holy Night"", with music by Adolphe Adam, originated in French as ""Cantique de Noël"" in 1847. The song that came to be known as ""Jingle Bells"" was published under the name ""The One Horse Open Sleigh"" in 1857. The earliest printing of the lyrics to ""Away In A Manger"" dates back to 1885. Of the songs on the album composed in the 20th century, ""Sweet Little Jesus Boy"" is the oldest, written on Christmas Eve, 1932. In the 1942 film ""Holiday Inn"", Bing Crosby performed ""White Christmas"" and ""Happy Holiday"", with the former spending 11 weeks"
"The Christmas Waltz ""The Christmas Waltz"" is a Christmas song written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne for Frank Sinatra, who recorded it in 1954 as the B-side of a new recording of ""White Christmas"", in 1957 for his album ""A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra"", and in 1968 for ""The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas"". Cahn recalls, ""One day during a very hot spell in Los Angeles the phone rang and it was Jule Styne to say, 'Frank wants a Christmas song.'"" Cahn resisted, explaining that any notion of attempting a holiday hit so closely on the"
"recording of ""I'll Be Home for Christmas"" spent two weeks at number three upon its first release in 1943. In 1949, recordings of ""Blue Christmas"" by Russ Morgan, Ernest Tubb, and Hugo Winterhalter made the ""Billboard"" charts. That same year marked the first charting of ""What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"", thanks to The Orioles. 1952 saw the release of ""I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"", with versions by Molly Bee, Jimmy Boyd, and Spike Jones all making the charts that holiday season. Frank Sinatra's recording of ""The Christmas Waltz"" was released in 1954, and John Lennon and Yoko"
"Petit Papa Noël ""Petit Papa Noël"" (literally ""little Father Christmas"") is a 1946 song recorded by French singer Tino Rossi. Written by Raymond Vincy and Henri Martinet, this Christmas song was originally performed by Rossi in Richard Pottier's film ""Destins"". It is currently the best-selling single of all time in France, with over 5,711,000 units sold. The song peaked at #6 on December 28, 1991 (the French SNEP Singles Chart was created on November 4, 1984), and was ranked every year under several labels, including Disques Pathé, Fifty Five and M6 Interactions (every label is charted separately). The song has"
"Baby, It's Cold Outside ""Baby, It's Cold Outside"" is an Academy Award-winning popular song written by Frank Loesser in 1944, which gained wide recognition in 1949 when it was performed in the film ""Neptune's Daughter"". While the lyrics make no mention of any holiday, it is popularly regarded as a Christmas song owing to its winter theme. The song was released in no fewer than 8 recordings in 1949 and has been covered numerous times since. During the 1940s, whenever Hollywood celebrities attended parties, they were expected to perform. In 1944, Loesser wrote ""Baby, It's Cold Outside"" to sing with"
"The Twelve Gifts of Christmas ""The Twelve Gifts of Christmas"" is a song parody written and performed by Allan Sherman based on the classic Christmas song ""The Twelve Days of Christmas"". The song reached #5 on the Billboard Christmas Chart in 1963. A noted jukebox record supplier stated that if the record was released earlier, it ""might have been a hot number."" The song subsequently appeared on Sherman's 1964 album, ""For Swingin' Livers Only!"" The song was arranged by Lou Busch. He lists off the gifts in successive verses, and after some of them he adds more details about the"
"for the next three decades. Kent received Oscar nominations for his film compositions entitled “Too Much In Love” (1944) and “Endlessly” (1945). He worked alongside Kim Gannon, composing songs for the big screen, for much of his Hollywood career. In 1950, Kent worked with Gannon once again to create the musical stage score for ""Seventeen"", a Broadway musical based upon a novel of the same name. Kent’s song “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” has passed the test of time and remains to be a holiday classic, often used in holiday based cinema. Below is a list of Kent’s contributive film/theatrical"
"on December 24, 1962. Earlier that year, Crosby had recorded a new album of Christmas songs entitled ""I Wish You a Merry Christmas"" and the opportunity was taken to promote this. Kathryn Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and Johnny Mercer covered eight of the fourteen titles on the recently completed album. Crosby started with the title song, ""I Wish You a Merry Christmas"". Clooney sang ""The Littlest Angel"" and ""Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"" and joined Mercer for ""Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"". Mercer sang his own individual version of ""The Glow-Worm"". Crosby joined Clooney and Mercer"
"ASCAP members in 2015 were written by Jewish composers. Johnny Marks has three top Christmas songs, the most for any writer—""Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"", ""Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"", and ""A Holly Jolly Christmas"". By far the most recorded Christmas song is ""White Christmas"" by Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin in Russia)—who also wrote ""Happy Holiday""—with well over 500 versions in dozens of languages. Others include: Lyricist Jerome ""Jerry"" Leiber and composer Mike Stoller wrote ""Santa Claus Is Back in Town"", which Elvis Presley debuted on his first Christmas album in 1957. ""Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"" was written"
"as helping write music for movies like ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad"" and ""Peter Pan"" when those two were in production. He shared credit with Jack Lawrence for the deleted song ""Never Smile at a Crocodile"" from ""Peter Pan"". In 1942, Churchill and fellow composer Oliver Wallace won an Oscar in the category ""Scoring of a Musical Picture"" for cowriting the score for ""Dumbo"". He also shared an Oscar nomination with Ned Washington for the song ""Baby Mine"" from ""Dumbo"" for Best Song. A year later, Churchill received two posthumous Oscar nominations; the first for cowriting the score"
"& the Blue Jeans, who recorded Spector's version of ""Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"", an Oscar-winning song from the 1946 Walt Disney film ""Song of the South"", which got into the Top 10 in 1963. The Blossoms landed a weekly part on ""Shindig!"", one of the top music shows of the era. They were part of the highly acclaimed ""Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special"", which aired on NBC. ""Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"" is a song recorded by Darlene Love for the 1963 holiday compilation album, ""A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector"". The song was written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich,"
"and introduced the opening verse as a guest for the show's Christmas Special which aired on December 22, 1963. Additionally, his recordings typically include a coda adapted from ""Here We Come A-wassailing"": ""The Christmas Song"" has been covered by numerous artists from a wide variety of genres. It has charted by the following: The Christmas Song ""The Christmas Song"" (commonly subtitled ""Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"" or, as it was originally subtitled, ""Merry Christmas to You"") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé. According to Tormé, the song was written during a"