Bing crosby sang the song for the first time publicly on christmas day 1941-2. crosby starred in the highest grossing film of 1954 \ white christmas\ -3. in 2011, lady gaga recorded a version of the song for her holiday television special, a very gaga thanksgiving, which was also included as one of four tracks on her holiday ep, a \ very gaga holiday\ -4. asker contributed his idiotic version of white christmas in his \ yuletide yell\ -irving berlin wrote white christmas in 1940the guniess book of records records white christmas as having sold over 100 million copies, thus it is the best selling recording including albums irving berlins opening bars are often dropped in recordings, but are included on a christmas gift for you from philles records, sung by darlene love, on barbra streisands a christmas album, and on liberas christmas album.the sun is shining, the grass is green,the orange and palm trees sway.theres never been such a dayin beverly hills, l.a.but its december the twenty-fourth,and i am longing to be up northlady gaga felt the song was too short and added a verse of her own. all the lines rhyme.in a monitored lab test of 64 music lovers who were required to listen to lady gaga, asker and jim carreys renditions back-to-back~ 15 of the group used the pencils provided to fill in their results forms to poke out their ear drums lest they hear another note.