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White Christmas
"White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and first performed publicly by Bing Crosby on Christmas Day 1941, became the best-selling single of all time by some measures, a distinction it has held for over eight decades despite the enormous growth of the recorded music industry since its release. Berlin reportedly wrote the song's wistful, nostalgic lyrics while staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, composing an ode to a snowy Christmas from the middle of a Southern California winter, a contrast later commentators have often noted as part of the song's enduring emotional appeal. Crosby's version, featured in the films "Holiday Inn" and later "White Christmas," became so closely associated with the song that Berlin himself reportedly considered Crosby's recording the definitive version, and it has been re-released and charted repeatedly during the Christmas season for decades since. Its combination of its record-setting sales status and Bing Crosby's definitive vocal performance has made "White Christmas" widely regarded as the greatest and most commercially significant Christmas song ever written.
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Jingle Bells
"Jingle Bells," written by James Lord Pierpont and originally published in 1857 under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh," is one of the oldest and most widely recognized Christmas songs in the American canon, despite lyrics that make no direct reference to Christmas itself. The song was reportedly composed while Pierpont lived in Medford, Massachusetts, and the town has long claimed the song's birthplace distinction with a commemorative plaque, though Savannah, Georgia, where Pierpont later resided and where the song was formally copyrighted, has also claimed the association. Its simple, highly singable melody and lack of explicitly religious content made it one of the most universally adopted secular Christmas songs, sung in classrooms, at office parties, and across religious traditions in a way more overtly devotional carols could not achieve. Its combination of its status as one of the oldest songs in the modern Christmas canon and its uniquely secular, universally singable appeal has made "Jingle Bells" one of the most performed and recognized Christmas songs ever written.
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