Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

Gioia admits that the only familiarity many today might have with him is the Christmas song “White Christmas,” which is “the ...

The hit song even inspired a Christmas movie starring Crosby CHRISTMAS is almost here and everywhere you go, festive tunes are playing. One song in particular has graced airwaves at this time of year ...

The holiday classic became an anthem for soldiers fighting abroad during the war American Stock/Getty Bing Crosby once shared with his nephew his most difficult ever performance of "White Christmas" ...

Bing Crosby is a name often synonymous with the American ideal of the holiday season. In fact, it even goes beyond the states! Growing up outside the country too, I fondly remember the sounds of ...

Bing Crosby is synonymous with Christmas. The giga-star dominated the '30s and '40s as both a movie star and a musician, but now is known mostly for his Christmas songs, which have stayed in the ...

It was a white-glove Christmas auction of singer and actor Bing Crosby’s personal collection, which made a 100% sell-through rate and $6.7m at Sotheby’s in New York last night against an estimate of ...

“White Christmas” might be the best-selling Christmas song ever, but the song’s backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war. Written by ...

When entertainer Bing Crosby stepped up to the microphone in New York’s NBC Studios on Christmas Day 1941, many of the tens of millions of people who had tuned in to the live broadcast of his “Kraft ...

Neither of the two stars who recorded “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy” in 1977 had a desire to work together. Bing Crosby was 73 years old, American born, and one of the most beloved singers of his ...

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In 1940, legendary composer and songwriter Irving Berlin told his musical arranger Helmy Kresa that “White Christmas” was not only the best song he ever wrote, but also “the best song anybody ever ...