Just a few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bing Crosby publicly broadcast “White Christmas” for the first time. After playing the track on his radio show, it became an immediate symbol ...

(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Bing Crosby changed the future of holiday music when he released “White Christmas” in 1942. In the more than half-century since then, the tune has become ...

With the obvious exception of John Lennon’s 1971 single “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” Christmas music and war don ... about Irving Berlin’s iconic “White Christmas.” ...