Rosen speculates that it was over Christmas 1937, when Berlin was away from his family for the first time and making the movie "Alexander’s Ragtime Band."īut the likely sentiment behind the song makes it sadder. Emmett thinks it was written in 1938 or ’39. But we know only know a little about its origins. The song has been played again and again, sung for soldiers far from home and covered by many different artists. "It’s very evocative, and it’s entirely secular." "It’s very evocative: the snow, the Christmas card, the sleigh, the sleigh bells," she says. Linda Emmett, one of Berlin’s daughters, also has thoughts on one of her father’s most popular songs. (Think of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.") "And I think that’s one of the reasons why people keep responding to it, because our feelings over the holiday season are ambivalent," author Jody Rosen told NPR. The slow, wistful and almost melancholy tune of "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin, stands in contrast to all the unabashedly happy songs of the season.
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