White Christmas

Show Details

Music

Irving Berlin (711)

Lyrics

Irving Berlin (711)

Book

Melvin Frank (12), Norman Krasna (3), Norman Panama (8)

Type

Musical

Premiere

1953

Recordings

Audio Recordings

		White Christmas - 1953 Film Soundtrack
		White Christmas - 1954 Studio Cast
		White Christmas - 1954 Studio Cast (Rosemary Clooney)
		Irving Berlin's White Christmas - 2006 Studio Cast

Video Recordings

White Christmas - 1954 Film

Songs also appear on these recordings (17)

		Recording	Songs
		Count Your Blessings / Fanny - 1954 Eddie Fisher	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Inspiration - 1968 Tammy Wynette	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Lullabies of Broadway - 1990 Mimi Bessette	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Great American Songwriters, Vol. 4: Irving Berlin - 1993 Irving Berlin	Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me
		Heatwave: Patti LuPone Sings Irving Berlin - 1995 Patti LuPone	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Dream With Me - 1998 Paige O'Hara	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Duets - 1998 Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley	Sisters
		Back to Before - 1999 Kim Criswell	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		There's No Business Like Show Business - 2000 Dutch Cast	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Count Your Blessings - 2003 Barbara Cook	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Something To Dance About: The Music of Irving Berlin - 2004 Kim Criswell	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Raw at Town Hall - 2006 Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner	Sisters
		Betcha Bottom Dollar - 2007 The Puppini Sisters	Sisters
		Somethin' Like Love - 2009 Steven Pasquale	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Good to Mama - 2014 Christine Pedi	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		The Heart Of It All - 2014 Aled Jones	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
		Shine: Lullabies for Everyone - 2014 Suzanne Jamieson Selmo	Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep

Songs

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Songs used from other shows

• Blue Skies (32) from Betsy
• Falling out of Love Can Be Fun (2) from Miss Liberty
• Happy Holiday (4) from Holiday Inn
• I Love a Piano (12) from Stop! Look! Listen!
• I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (18) from On the Avenue
• Let Me Sing and I'm Happy (12) from Mammy
• Let Yourself Go (14) from Follow the Fleet
• Mandy (5) from Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
• White Christmas (31) from Holiday Inn

Non-Show Song Standards Used

• How Deep Is the Ocean? (31) -- Independent song published in 1932. The song was developed from an earlier Berlin song, "To My Mammy," which was sung by Al Jolson in his film [i]Mammy[/i] (1930).