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| - Gramophone record
- Single (music)
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Subject
| - 1940s jazz standards
- Mormon Tabernacle Choir songs
- The Beach Boys songs
- United States National Recording Registry recordings
- American Christmas songs
- Bette Midler songs
- 1942 singles
- 1942 songs
- Bing Crosby songs
- Best Original Song Academy Award winning songs
- Jazz compositions in A major
- Lady Gaga songs
- Max Bygraves songs
- Number-one singles in the United States
- Song recordings produced by Xenomania
- Songs written by Irving Berlin
- The Partridge Family songs
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abstract
| - %22White Christmas%22 is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 100 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Bing Crosby's, have sold over 150 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 La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writing — he told his secretary, %22Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!%22
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| - Decca Records
- MCA Records
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