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) hustling record business figure Curtis Taylor, Jr. (played by Jamie Foxx). Movie critic Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor remarked that the emotional scene displayed "Murphy at his best." Similar praise came from David Rooney of "Variety". Although nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 79th Academy Awards, "Patience" ultimately lost the Oscar to "I Need to Wake Up" by Melissa Etheridge, which the songwriter created for "An Inconvenient Truth". "Patience" didn't exist during the creation of the original "Dreamgirls" musical, a stage drama which made its debut on Broadway in December 1981. Songwriters Henry