JUDY WOODRUFF: Next for this holiday season: a new way to look at a classic song, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas." It's the best-selling single of all time with more than 50 million copies sold.

On Christmas Day, 1941, just 18 days following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bing Crosby announced that he would be debuting a new song on The Kraft Music Hall radio show he hosted for a decade ...

When Crosby’s iconic “White Christmas” came out 75 years ago this year, it was welcomed as readily as a sleigh full of gifts, becoming one of the most successful songs in the history of ...

The song, of course is “White Christmas” – words and music by Irving Berlin. Advertisement. Hide Ad. Advertisement. Hide Ad. Irving Berlin was born Israel Baelin in Siberia on 11th May 1888.

Before “White Christmas,” Bowers explained, most Christmas songs were liturgical; with this song, Berlin created a popular idiom—and industry!— for secular holiday hymns.

The composer of more than 1,500 songs, including "White Christmas," "Puttin' on the Ritz" and "God Bless America," was a Jewish immigrant from Russia who lived the American Dream ...

Christmas songs are like your mother’s oyster dressing. There may be lots of versions with merit, but it’s that oh-so-familiar one, the one done just right that makes you sigh ...

Honorable mention: "Winter Wonderland" was composed by Felix Bernard, but the lyrics were by an Irish-American, Richard B. Smith; and "I'll be Home For Christmas" was composed by Walter Kent, but ...

The national tour of Irving Berlin's White Christmas hits Dallas Summer Musicals Dec. 5-10 at Fair Park Music Hall. (Jeremy Daniel) On Jan. 8, 1940, Irving Berlin announced to his longtime musical ...