Christmas music a version by American "a capella" group Pentatonix which had already been released on their Christmas album shortly before Cohen's death, were added into Christmas music playlists on radio stations in the United States and Canada. Christmas songs introduced in theater, television, and film include "White Christmas" from "Holiday Inn" (1942), "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" from "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), and "Silver Bells" in "The Lemon Drop Kid" (1950). Some musical films have been set around Christmas time, and because of that some of the songs are popular during the holiday season, including: A popular form
White Christmas (weather) White Christmas (weather) A white Christmas is a Christmas with the presence of snow: either on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day, depending on local tradition. This phenomenon is most common in the northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere. Because December is at the beginning of the Southern Hemisphere summer, white Christmases there are extremely rare, except in Antarctica, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand's South Island, and in parts of the Andes in South America as well as the southern tip of the continent such as in places like Ushuaia, Argentina. The Irving Berlin song, "White Christmas", sung