CHRISTMAS CAR TUNES:"WHITE CHRISTMAS" BING CROSBY-RELEASED 1941

Most 1941 Dodge cabovers didn't have radios because working vehicles were all work-no fun in 41.

Working stiffs  were lucky to have a heater in a truck.

If they did have a luxury like an AM radio, this was the song they heard in December 1941.

Legend has it that this song was yet another Christmas song written on a hot summer day. You get the impression that blistering heat brings out the best in would be Christmas song writing but Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas", the definitive Christmas song almost 70 years ago.

Bing Crosby is forever linked to this song after he recorded it in 1941 and rumor has it that Bing wasn't that thrilled with this legacy.

Who cares? Sometimes you have to accept an association with a legend-because no matter how big "Der Bingle" Crosby was as a singer in the early 40s, the song was more important.

This is the ultimate Christmas song, released during the early stages of World War Two and at that time in history everybody was dreaming of a White Christmas "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,just like the ones I used to know,Where the treetops glisten and children listen,to hear sleigh bells in the snow".

Most people during Christmas 1941 needed a little relief from reality-"White Christmas" came out a few years after the Great Depression and around the time that Pearl Harbor invited everybody in the free world to the big party called World War Two. For that reason alone, "White Christmas" was important and now 70 years later, we realize just how timeless this song is, so for that reason alone we made it the number one Christmas Eve song.

You can't end Christmas Car Tunes without taking some lines from the song itself.

"May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be white".

Jerry Sutherland

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