White Christmas
The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP (2007)
“White Christmas” is a cover song, recorded by Taylor as a track on her first extended play, The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, released on October 14, 2007. The classic Christmas song speaks about the joyous memories and hopes for the future associated with the holiday season.
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Background and Lyrical Theme
“White Christmas” is the closing track on Taylor’s Christmas EP. It is a rendition of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”, a song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.
Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writing — he told his secretary, “Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I’ve ever written — heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody’s ever written!”
The hit song also made an appearance in Berlin’s ever-popular Christmas movie Holiday Inn, where it was awarded the 1943 Academy Award for “Best Original Song”.
Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writing — he told his secretary, “Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I’ve ever written — heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody’s ever written!”
The hit song also made an appearance in Berlin’s ever-popular Christmas movie Holiday Inn, where it was awarded the 1943 Academy Award for “Best Original Song”.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the tree tops glisten and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow
[Verse 2]
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
[Intermission]
[Verse 3]
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
So may your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
[Outro]
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white
General Information
| Artist | Taylor Swift |
|---|---|
| Album | The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection EP |
| Released | October 14, 2007 |
| Recorded | May-August 2007 |
| Genre | Country |
| Length | 2:34 |
| Label | Big Machine Records |
| Songwriter | Irving Berlin |
| Producer | Nathan Chapman |
Official Audio
