31 Days of Christmas – Day #9

White Christmas

In 1939, Irving Berlin composed a Christmas song, but he thought so little of it that he never showed it to anybody. He just tossed it into a trunk and didn’t see fit to retrieve it until he needed a song for a Bing Crosby – Fred Astaire movie, Holiday Inn, ten years later.
Bing Crosby was a deeply religious man and at first refused to sing the song, because he felt it tended to commercialize Christmas.
Finally, he agreed. It took a scant 18 minutes to make the recording. That “throw-away” song became an all-time hit. Crosby’s version has sold over 40 million copies. The song has appeared in over 750 versions, selling 6 million copies of sheet music and 90 million recordings just in the United States & Canada.
You might not recognize the song from the movie, Holiday Inn, or from the composer’s name, Irving Berlin. But you’re bound to know it, be cause White Christmas is on everyone’s list of Christmas favorites.

“Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!”(Psalm 32:11)

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