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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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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," written by Johnny Marks and recorded by 13-year-old Brenda Lee in 1958, became one of the first Christmas songs to successfully incorporate rock and roll's emerging rhythm and energy into the traditionally more sedate genre of holiday music. Marks, who had already written "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and would go on to become one of the most prolific Christmas songwriters of the 20th century, built his publishing career substantially around holiday material, an unusually specialized commercial niche within the broader music industry. The song's initial commercial performance upon release was relatively modest, and its status as a genuine holiday standard grew gradually over subsequent decades of radio replay, eventually becoming one of the most streamed Christmas songs of the digital era despite its more than 60-year-old original recording. Its combination of its pioneering rock-and-roll-infused sound and its eventual long-delayed rise to genuine standard status has made "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" one of the most distinctive and enduring Christmas songs of the mid-20th century.
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