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
White Christmas (song) 1963's, "The Andy Williams Christmas Album", where it reached No. 1 on "Billboard"s special, year-end, weekly Christmas Singles chart. It was released in 1968 as a posthumous single from Otis Redding, and reached No. 12 on the Christmas Singles chart In 1980, Darts's version peaked at No. 48 on the UK singles chart. Michael Bolton performed it on his 1992 non-holiday album, "", where it peaked at No. 73 on "Billboard"s Hot 100 Airplay chart in January 1993. Garth Brooks version included on his first holiday album, "Beyond the Season", peaked at No. 70 on "Billboard"s Hot Country Singles &