Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas The Voice of Christmas: The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook is a two-disc collection of Christmas music recorded by Bing Crosby for the Decca label between 1935 and 1956, released by Universal Music Group on October 6, 1998. Crosby was the first popular singer to record Christmas songs, and his 1942 recording of "White Christmas" for the movie "Holiday Inn" is the best-selling single of all-time. The most prolific period for his Christmas recordings was between 1942 and 1955, including his Christmas songs recorded with The Andrews Sisters. Crosby continued to record Christmas titles for
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