. "Lady Gaga songs" . . . "151000.0"^^ . "MCA Records" . "White Christmas" . "1940s jazz standards" . "false"^^ . "USCA29100201" . . "1947-03-19" . "United States National Recording Registry recordings" . "false"^^ . "5714dee725ac0d8aee5398ac" . . "1942 singles" . "-0.0578511"^^ . . "272104"^^ . "PT151.43290249S"^^ . . "english" . "1942-05-29" . . "The Beach Boys songs" . "Song recordings produced by Xenomania" . . "Max Bygraves songs" . . "false"^^ . "4228112" . "0.641584"^^ . . "%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 \u2014 he told his secretary, %22Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written \u2014 heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!%22" . "Platinum" . "American Christmas songs" . . . . "Irving Berlin" . . "Best Original Song Academy Award winning songs" . "eng" . . "-16.5"^^ . "1942 songs" . . "Gramophone record" . "994f4e1c-fa53-422f-95b7-bb2f04b16d43" . "Songs written by Irving Berlin" . "The Partridge Family songs" . . "2179" . . . . "White Christmas" . . "87.0"^^ . "Bing Crosby songs" . "0.313436"^^ . "0"^^ . . . "2009-10-02"^^ . . "Jazz compositions in A major" . "Single (music)" . . . "9"^^ . . "Decca Records" . "Number-one singles in the United States" . . . . . "Mormon Tabernacle Choir songs" . "Bette Midler songs" .