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
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