Crunchmas message

Given the prevailing mood of insecurity and austerity, it seems inappropriate to do any new Xmas posts, so I'll just recycle one I did last year:
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You'll probably hear ['White Christmas' by Bing Crosby] several times over the next few weeks, just like you've heard it hundred of times before. Yeah, yeah ... it's that time of the year ... blah blah.

But you have to listen to it! It is pure unbridled genius!

The song is so slow that you cannot actually tap your foot to it; towards the end, the backing musicians actually nip out of the room for a comfort break, leaving Bing to stretch out "... and may all your ..." just long enough for the musicians to rush back in and pick up their instruments again.

And there's whistling on it. And it was recorded in one take in 1947. And so on.
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UPDATE: it is claimed by the asbestos removal lobby that the snowflakes used on the film set were 'lethal' asbestos particles. Poor old Bing - he only survived another thirty years or so ...