"Bette Midler songs" . "Max Bygraves songs" . <9Yg5g_Xl-uU> . . "english" . . "TRFFBFJ12903CDFF06" . . . "Song recordings produced by Xenomania" . "Jazz compositions in A major" . . "White Christmas" . "196000.0"^^ . "Decca Records" . . "The Partridge Family songs" . "Mormon Tabernacle Choir songs" . . . "2002-11-04"^^ . . "92.0"^^ . "-0.0974719"^^ . . "5714dec725ac0d8aee3b5dfc" . "Gramophone record" . "false"^^ . . "1940s jazz standards" . "%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" . . . "White Christmas" . . "1947-03-19" . "true"^^ . "The Beach Boys songs" . "United States National Recording Registry recordings" . "Lady Gaga songs" . "true"^^ . "1942-05-29" . "USMC15407622" . "17"^^ . . "Single (music)" . . "1947-03-19" . . "eng" . "Bing Crosby songs" . "1947-03-19" . "2314623" . . "Number-one singles in the United States" . . . "-16.6"^^ . "American Christmas songs" . "0.238707"^^ . "1942 singles" . "Best Original Song Academy Award winning songs" . "1947-03-19 recording" . . "Platinum" . . . "36201580-6499-49ba-b2b6-48d6db68bc38" . "MCA Records" . . "614" . . "Songs written by Irving Berlin" . . "315420"^^ . . . . "1942 songs" . . "Irving Berlin" . . . . "0"^^ .