White Christmas (song) The Christmas Album", charted at No. 13 on the Italian Singles Chart based on digital downloads of the track. White Christmas (song) "White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 50 million copies. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the
Songs for the Season Simon-MacWilliams, to produce the album. A breakaway from the adult contemporary pop sound on her previous album, the trio formulated the sound of "Songs for the Season" by using a microphone from the 1950s and recording all the strings together instead of double-tracking single recordings. While some of the songs remained close to the original versions, others were arranged more freely; Michaelson stated: "On Christmas covers you want something that is familiar that reminds you of past Christmases and holidays, and so I didn’t really want to reinvent the wheel". Primarily a compilation of cover versions of Christmas standards and