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
Someday at Christmas first appeared on the various artists CD collection, "Christmas in the City"). The title track was covered by The Jackson 5 for "The Jackson 5 Christmas Album" (1970), The Temptations for "The Temptations Christmas Card" (1970), Diana Ross for her "A Very Special Season" album (1994), Mary J. Blige (2000), Jack Johnson for the album "This Warm December" (2008), Pearl Jam for their 2004 holiday single and Justin Bieber covered the song at the White House. The band Remy Zero also covered the song which is featured on their 2001 EP release "A Searchers EP". Diana Ross performed the song