White Christmas (song) the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers and 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 musical film "Holiday Inn". At first, Crosby did not see anything special about the song. He just said "I don't think we have any problems with that one, Irving." The song established that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs—in this case, written by a Jewish-American songwriter. The song initially performed poorly and was overshadowed by "Holiday Inn"'s first
The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (1993), "Donnie Brasco" (1997), "Almost Famous" (2000), "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" (2016) and "The Fate of the Furious" (2017). The Chipmunks performed a smooth jazz version of the song with Kenny G on the saxophone for their 1994 album "A Very Merry Chipmunk". They also performed a duet version with Jaci Velasquez for her 2001 album "Christmas" in which Alvin tries to flirt with Jaci in Spanish and changes the lyric "I want a hula hoop" to "I want a date with you." On a Christmas episode of "The King of Queens", the character Doug Heffernan says it's his favorite Christmas