It remained in that position until well into the new year. By the end of October 1942, "White Christmas" topped the Your Hit Parade chart. The song initially performed poorly and was overshadowed by Holiday Inn's first hit song: "Be Careful, It's My Heart". Dave Marsh and Steve Propes wrote, "'White Christmas' changed Christmas music forever, both by revealing the huge potential market for Christmas songs and by establishing the themes of home and nostalgia that would run through Christmas music evermore." However, "the popular culture industry had not viewed the themes of home and hearth, centered on the Christmas holiday, as a unique market" until after the success of "White Christmas" and the film where it appeared, Holiday Inn. Lankford, Jr., wrote, "During the 1940s, 'White Christmas' would set the stage for a number of classic American holiday songs steeped in a misty longing for yesteryear." Before 1942, Christmas songs and films had come out sporadically, and many were popular. The song established that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs -in this case, written by a Jewish immigrant to the United States. He just said "I don't think we have any problems with that one, Irving." At first, Crosby did not see anything special about the song. He subsequently recorded the song with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers at Radio Recorders for Decca Records in 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. 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 Decemprogram. 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 few weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote." Bing Crosby versions One day he told his secretary, "I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. 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-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song.
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