Christmas Greetings (album) 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
Merry Christmas (Bing Crosby album) Delta Music also released an album in 1992 on the LaserLight label titled White Christmas often confused with the newer Decca imprint. Merry Christmas (Bing Crosby album) Merry Christmas is a compilation album by Bing Crosby that was released in 1945 on Decca Records. It has remained in print through the vinyl, CD, and downloadable file eras, currently as the disc and digital album "White Christmas" on MCA Records, a part of the Universal Music Group, (reissued in June 1995) and currently on vinyl as "Merry Christmas" on Geffen Records (re-issued in September 2014). It includes Crosby's signature song "White