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.

By September, the popularity of "White Christmas" grew, as evidenced by growing sales of the song’s sheet music. Holiday Inn, US lobbycard, Bing Crosby (center), 1942. (Photo by LMPC via Getty ...

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

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 ...

On Christmas Day 1941, crooner Bing Crosby stepped up to the microphone to introduce his new song. He was performing live on his hugely popular national radio show on NBC, “Kraft Music Hall.” ...

Many people don’t realize it, but Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” – the most recorded holiday song of all time, because it’s also the most recorded song of all time – is written from the point of ...

Bing Crosby premiered “White Christmas” ahead of the film’s release on his 1941 radio Christmas show just after Pearl Harbor. Crosby later recorded the song.

Weston Theater Company brings a touch of holiday cheer to the summer season with its new production of Irving Berlin’s White ...

The slow, wistful and almost melancholy tune of "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin, stands in contrast to all the unabashedly happy songs of the season. (Think of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed ...

The song “White Christmas” was written during one of those long, snowless Christmas spells. Irving Berlin appears to have begun writing the song in 1938, according to James Kaplan, ...