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
Hellzapoppin' (film) whose film "Citizen Kane" closes with Charles Foster Kane's childhood sled being burnt). The film has a frenetic pace, and often breaks the 'Fourth wall', including inner 'fourth walls' introduced by its nonlinear, metafictional narrative. The 1942 Academy Award nomination for Best Song for "Pig Foot Pete," (which lost to "White Christmas"), was attributed to "Hellzapoppin'," but the song never appeared in the film -- it was actually performed in another Universal production from the same year, the Abbott and Costello film "Keep 'Em Flying." Hellzapoppin' (film) Hellzapoppin' is a 1941 Universal Pictures adaptation of the musical of the same