The song is "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby.
Since 1958, only "The Chipmunk Song" by David Seville and the Chipmunks has topped the "Hot 100". In the years between 1940 and 1957, however, three Christmas songs topped the Billboard retail sales charts: Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" (1942), Spike Jones' "All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth), and Jimmy Boyd's "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" (1952). Vaughn Monroe's "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" (a much recorded holiday standard) reached #1 shortly after the Christmas season of 1945.
Probably southern England - although we've not had a white Christmas for a few years.
Some great Christmas records have been made over the years. It is commonly believed that Bing Crosby's White Christmas is the biggest selling Christmas record of all time, but in fact it has been outsold by a number of other records: Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas", Boney M's "Mary's Boy Child" and Wham!'s "Last Christmas" being 1, 2 and 3 respectively with White Christmas a lowly 7th according to the Official Charts Company website. For many though, whatever the numbers say, Bing Crosby's White Christmas will always be the biggest Christmas hit ever.
2004 . The last official White Christmas in London was in 1976.
only 10 years ago i believe. it was wonderful!
Lonestar released the song Amazed in March of 1999 and the hit spent 8 weeks at the top of the Country Billboard Music Charts. Many other artists have covered the song in the years since.
The song 'Lovesong' was released in the year 1989 as the third single from their eighth studio album 'Disintegration'. It peaked at number two on the Billboard charts in the US and has been covered by artists such as Adele in recent years.
I would not say that he started a tradition, but he had an outdoor tree decorated for Christmas on the White House lawn. It was about 20 years before anymore White House Christmas trees appeared.
Hank Snow's best selling album was Hello Love which had the highest chart position in the American Billboard Hot Country charts and saw Hank Snow be the oldest singer to have a No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and he held that position for 26 years before being knocked off by Kenny Rogers.
The song is actually called, "Please Come Home for Christmas" and was released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown.The song was written by Charles Brown and Gene Redd and reached number 76 on the Billboard charts, in the US, in December 1960. It appeared in the Christmas Singles chart for nine of the next 12 years, reaching number 1 in 1972.The song was subsequently covered by numerous diverse artists - most notably The Eagles, in 1978 and has provided Christmas hit singles for various country artists in recent years.
Lillie Bryant, formerly of Billy and Lillie, topped the Billboard charts for over 10 weeks and received world fame in 1958 for the song "La Dee Dah".