White Christmas by Bing Crosby captures that essence and reminisces about old-fashioned Christmas. It is such an emotional tune that it earned the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th ...

The Christmas song, in many ways, is the cousin of the show tune, using vivid imagery, witty and wistful orchestrations, and narrative invention to evoke joy, nostalgia, and sentimentality in ...

And both pictures are iconic mainly because of the song "White Christmas" itself — which won an Oscar in 1943, topped the Billboard charts in 1943 and 1944, and went on to become the best ...