"White Christmas" might be the best-selling Christmas song ever, but the song's backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war. Written by ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

We all long for a White Christmas. The peaceful way that those pristine white crystals fall from the sky create the perfect sense of calm. The scenery that they create is even better. During the ...

On April 29, 1975, the American Radio Service broadcast Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” to signal United States troops to evacuate directly preceding the Fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.

After Irving Berlin, left, penned ‘White Christmas,’ he pegged Bing Crosby as the ideal singer for what would become a holiday classic. Irving Haberman/IH Images via Getty Images Irving Berlin was a ...