White Christmas (film) but it was not used in the final film. Their recording of the song survives, however, and can be found on the Bear Family Records 7-CD set called "Come On-A My House". "White Christmas" was intended to reunite Crosby and Fred Astaire for their third Irving Berlin showcase musical. Crosby and Astaire had previously co-starred in "Holiday Inn" (1942) – where the song "White Christmas" first appeared – and "Blue Skies" (1946). Astaire declined the project after reading the script and asked to be released from his contract with Paramount. Crosby also left the project shortly thereafter, to spend more
White Christmas (song) 1975, as a secret, pre-arranged signal precipitating the U.S. evacuation from Saigon. Irving Berlin's opening verse is often dropped in recordings. It is included on "A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records", sung by Darlene Love; on Barbra Streisand's "A Christmas Album"; on the Carpenters' "Christmas Portrait", sung by Karen Carpenter; on Neil Diamond's "The Christmas Album;" on Bette Midler's "Cool Yule"; on Libera's "Christmas Album"; and on Crash Test Dummies' "Jingle All the Way". "White Christmas" is the most-recorded Christmas song; there have been more than 500 recorded versions of the song, in several different languages. The following