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
Last Christmas of the period, . Wham! donated all of their "Last Christmas/Everything She Wants" royalties to the Ethiopian famine. In subsequent years, the song managed to reach the middle echelons of the UK Singles Chart on a regular basis (excluding 1985, 1986, 2016 and 2017, where the song reached the upper echelons of the chart): "Last Christmas" has sold over 1.88 million copies as of January 2017 and is the biggest-selling single in UK chart history not to reach number one. "Last Christmas" was originally released in two different formats in Japan: 7-inch and 12-inch ("Long version") with "Credit Card Baby"