Crosby, who began recording in 1931 and tallied 71 albums and 409 singles, earned his biggest hit a decade later when he performed the Irving Berlin holiday song “White Christmas” on a radio ...

Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing their hit song "Little Drummer Boy" on the TV Christmas special "Merrie Olde Christmas," circa 1977. (Screen Archives/Getty Images) "I hate this song.

30. The Waitresses 'Christmas Wrapping' (1981) This New Wave standard rocks the mic like Debbie Harry on the "Rapture" tip with an impossibly elastic bass line, punch-drunk horns slurring the ...

During the film Holiday Inn, Bing Crosby’s character is down on his luck on Christmas Eve. He dreams of a white Christmas, thus the song’s inclusion in the film. Berlin penned the tune in late ...

Composed by Irving Berlin, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" is the best-selling single ever. But it turns out America's favorite Christmas song has a sad backstory ...

"White Christmas" was introduced on radio by Bing Crosby during the Kraft Music Hall broadcast on Dec. 24, 1941, barely two weeks after Pearl Harbor.

Irving Berlin won an Oscar for writing this seasonal standard, which Bing Crosby first recorded for “Holiday Inn,” a film released in 1942, establishing a market for secular Christmas music ...

Irving Berlin won an Oscar for writing this seasonal standard, which Bing Crosby first recorded for “Holiday Inn,” a film released in 1942, establishing a market for secular Christmas music ...