I know this is a little after the Christmas holiday, but still within the Christmas season. When I took over directing a company choir a long time ago, I went to the music store to pick out some octavos for a Christmas program. One of the ones I selected was “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin. When I opened to the first page, what to my wondering eyes did appear, but the following words…

The sun is shining, the grass is green

The orange and palm trees sway

There’s never been such a day

In Beverly Hills, L.A.

But it’s December the twenty-forth

And I am longing to be up North….

Then the words everyone knows….

I’m dreaming of a White Christmas…..

This was in the late 1980’s/early 1990’s, so no Internet around to check on this, but I always remembered as a “fun fact”. Later, I saw the movie “White Christmas”, and thought “I am going to hear those words now”…but no….

This year, I learned that the song first premiered in film in the movie “Holiday Inn”. I searched for a clip with the performance…but no….

Finally, I found an article where the author stumbled onto this “fun fact” and managed to find a recording of a 1968 TV performance where Bing Crosby (yes, Mr. “White Christmas” himself) sang the original words.

Merry Christmas everyone!