In what movie does the song “White Christmas” first appear?

Answer 1

In the 1942 movie, Holiday Inn. Later it was sung in the movie, White Christmas to capitalize on the success of the song.

Answer 2

Holiday Inn which premiered at the New York Paramount Theatre in August 1942. Holiday Inn is a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which featured the music of Irving Berlin.

The song was also the title theme for the 1954 musical White Christmas, starring Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen, which was the biggest-grossing film of 1954.

Answer 3

White Christmas the song was written for the movie in 1954

Answer 4

the movie is White Christmas

Answer 5

1) Camelot 2) Help! 3) Romeo and Juliett 4) Grease 5) Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway 6) Give My Regards to Broad Street

Answer 6

Holiday Inn staring Bing Crosby

Answer 7

The movie was titled 'White Christmas." It first debuted in 1954.

Answer 8

LMAO Home Alone...That's hillarious.

It was White Christmas. With Bing Crosby.

Bing's got a lotta years on McCauley...LOL

Answer 9

Holiday Inn

Answer 10

White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmases. The morning after he wrote the song — Berlin usually stayed up all night writing — the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — hell, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!"


Introduction
Berlin wrote the song in early 1940. A Russian-Jewish immigrant with little direct experience of the holiday, he struggled with writing a Christmas song before hitting on a light-hearted theme. The original verse pokes fun at a well-off Los Angeleno who, amid orange and palm trees, longs for traditional Christmas "up north." Berlin later dropped the verse but kept the now-famous chorus.

"White Christmas" was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1942 musical Holiday Inn. In the film, he actually sings it in a duet with Marjorie Reynolds. The song went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Song.

The first public performance of the song was also by Crosby, on his top-rated CBS radio show The Kraft Music Hall in December 1941; that performance is not believed to have survived. He recorded the song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers for Decca Records in just 18 minutes on May 29, 1942, and the song went on to become a mammoth hit single. (It has often been noted that the mix of melancholy — "just like the ones I used to know" — with comforting images of home — "where the treetops glisten" — resonated especially strongly with listeners during World War II.) In 1942 alone, the single spent eleven weeks on top of the charts. It returned to the #1 spot again during the holiday seasons of 1945 and 1946 (on the chart dated January 4, 1947), thus becoming the only single in history with three separate runs at the top of the U.S. charts. Eventually, Crosby's "White Christmas" single sold more than fifty million copies. The Guinness Book of World Records currently lists the song as a 100-million seller (this encompassing all versions of the song, including on albums).


Later history
The most familiar version of "White Christmas" is not, however, the one Crosby originally recorded for Decca Record's Holiday Inn album on May 29, 1942. He was called back to the Decca studios on March 18, 1947, to re-record "White Christmas" as a result of damage to the 1942 master due to its frequent use. Every effort was made to reproduce the original Decca recording session, once again backed by the Trotter Orchestra and the Darby Singers. The resulting rerecording is the one that has become most familiar to the public. Crosby himself was dismissive of the achievement, saying later that "a jackdaw with a cleft palate could have sung it successfully."


Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters recorded White Christmas late in 1954, a version which has since gained popularity.The song was also the title theme for the 1954 musical White Christmas, starring Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen, which was the biggest-grossing film of 1954.

Crosby's single of "White Christmas" is recognized as the best-selling single in any music category and Crosby's recording has sold millions of additional copies as part of numerous albums, including his best-selling holiday collection Merry Christmas, which was first released as an LP in 1949 and has never been out-of-print since.

The 2007 Guinness Book of Records lists Crosby's recording as the biggest selling single of all time with an estimated 50 million copies sold. The "White Christmas Musical website"[1], confirms the Guinness statistics and lists the Crosby recording as "the best selling record in history.", although this is a non-official title.

The recording was broadcast on the radio as a pre-arranged signal during the U.S. evacuation of Saigon on April 30, 1975 (see Fall of Saigon).

In 2002, the original 1942 version was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

Clyde McPhatter's group of Drifters recorded White Christmas late in 1954. For decades, this version was primarily heard on R & B radio stations, and got little exposure elsewhere. Beginning in the 1970's oldies stations also began playing this version in search for product within their core artists. In the early 1990's, after being heard on Home Alone, radio stations with formats such as Adult Contemporary, Top 40, and even Country began playing this version. The popularity of this version over the years has grown as a result. Today this version gets almost as much airplay as Bing Crosby's versions.