Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas Bing Crosby: The Voice of Christmas The Voice of Christmas: The Complete Decca Christmas Songbook is a two-disc collection of Christmas music recorded by Bing Crosby for the Decca label between 1935 and 1956, released by Universal Music Group on October 6, 1998. Crosby was the first popular singer to record Christmas songs, and his 1942 recording of "White Christmas" for the movie "Holiday Inn" is the best-selling single of all-time. The most prolific period for his Christmas recordings was between 1942 and 1955, including his Christmas songs recorded with The Andrews Sisters. Crosby continued to record Christmas titles for
What Is Life the first ex-Beatle to have two top-ten hits in the United States.<ref name="Mapes/Billboard">Jillian Mapes, "George Harrison's 10 Biggest Billboard Hits", billboard.com, 29 November 2011 (retrieved 4 June 2014).</ref> The single was a success internationally, climbing to number 1 in Switzerland and on Australia's "Go-Set" National Top 60, and reaching the top three elsewhere in Europe and in Canada.<ref name="Tsosrt/GH singles">"George Harrison (Song artist 225)", Tsort pages (retrieved 16 October 2012).</ref> In Britain, where Harrison had resisted issuing a single from "All Things Must Pass" until midway through January, "What Is Life" appeared on the B-side to "My Sweet Lord" –