<P> The first public performance of the song was by Bing Crosby , on his NBC radio show The Kraft Music Hall on Christmas Day , 1941 ; a copy of the recording from the radio program is owned by Crosby 's estate and was loaned to CBS News Sunday Morning for their December 25 , 2011 , program . He subsequently recorded the song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers and for Decca Records in just 18 minutes on May 29 , 1942 , and it was released on July 30 as part of an album of six 78 - rpm discs from the musical film Holiday Inn . At first , Crosby did not see anything special about the song . He just said `` I do n't think we have any problems with that one , Irving . '' The song established that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs -- in this case , written by a Jewish - American songwriter . </P>
<P> The first public performance of the song was by Bing Crosby , on his NBC radio show The Kraft Music Hall on Christmas Day , 1941 ; a copy of the recording from the radio program is owned by Crosby 's estate and was loaned to CBS News Sunday Morning for their December 25 , 2011 , program . He subsequently recorded the song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers and for Decca Records in just 18 minutes on May 29 , 1942 , and it was released on July 30 as part of an album of six 78 - rpm discs from the musical film Holiday Inn . At first , Crosby did not see anything special about the song . He just said `` I do n't think we have any problems with that one , Irving . '' The song established that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs -- in this case , written by a Jewish - American songwriter . </P>
who sings with bing crosby in white christmas
who sings with bing crosby in white christmas
the Ken Darby Singers
the Ken Darby Singers