White Christmas (weather) by Bing Crosby from the film "Holiday Inn", is the best-selling single of all time and speaks nostalgically of a traditional white Christmas. The definition of "white Christmas" varies. In most countries, it simply means that the ground is covered by snow at Christmas, but some countries have more strict definitions. In the United States, the official definition of a white Christmas is that there has to be a snow depth of at least at 7:00 a.m. local time on Christmas morning, and in Canada the official definition is that there has to be more than on the ground on
The Christmas Song others. Mel Tormé himself made several recordings of the song, including versions released in 1954 (on his live Coral Records album "At the Crescendo"), 1961 (on his Verve Records album "My Kind of Music"), 1970 (on a Columbia Records promo single), 1990 (in a medley with "Autumn Leaves", on his live Concord Records album "Mel Tormé Live at the Fujitsu–Concord Festival 1990"), and 1992 (on his Telarc Records album "Christmas Songs"). The 1970 Columbia version of the song adds an opening verse, written in 1963 while Tormé was working as musical arranger for "The Judy Garland Show". He first performed