Christmas Greetings (album) Christmas Greetings (album) Christmas Greetings is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1949 featuring popular Christmas songs. Crosby had recorded Christmas songs for the first time in 1935 and he had a huge hit with "Silent Night" that year. In 1942, he recorded "White Christmas" with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers 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 film "Holiday Inn". In 1943, he recorded three more songs
The Christmas Shoes (song) the song, country music girl group 3 of Hearts released their own version, which peaked at No. 39 on the country chart. In 2002, Donna VanLiere produced a novelization of the song which was published in 2002 by St. Martin's Press. The book became a made-for-TV movie released in December 2002. In 2005 Dutch singer René Froger recorded the song for his "Pure Christmas" album. Pop-punk band FM Static released a cover of this song in 2008. The song has appeared on various "worst Christmas song" lists. In 2011, the song was named "The Worst Christmas Song Ever" by Jezebel.com,