White Christmas (song) 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 La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims
Patience (Dreamgirls song) song's release. This feeds into the flashes of anxiety and depression suffered by Murphy's character, which he self-medicates through illicit drug use. "Patience" was one of three "Dreamgirls" songs nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 79th Academy Awards. The others were "Love You I Do" and "Listen". All three "Dreamgirls" songs (as well as the piece "Our Town" that Randy Newman penned for "Cars") lost the Oscar to "I Need to Wake Up" by Melissa Etheridge, which the songwriter created for "An Inconvenient Truth". At the 2007 Academy Awards ceremony, "Patience" was performed by Rose