Elvis' Christmas Album ensure that "this" Christmas album would not be easily ignored. Much of the remaining program was performed in a more traditional manner appropriate to the solemnity of Christmas, although Elvis's innate sense of occasion shone through on his left-of-centre reading of Ernest Tubb's 1949 hit, "Blue Christmas." "Silent Night" and "O Little Town of Bethlehem" were arranged by Elvis Presley. The Bing Crosby holiday perennial "White Christmas," which appeared every year on the "Billboard" charts from 1942 to 1962, became the center of controversy upon the album's release, with calls by the song's composer Irving Berlin to have the song,
Thinking About You (Elvis Presley song) Thinking About You (Elvis Presley song) "Thinking About You" is a song performed by Elvis Presley and originally released on his 1975 album "Promised Land". In January 1975 it also was released on the RCA single PB-10191, as the flip side to "My Boy" (a song from the 1974 album "Good Times"). In 1977 the single was reissued as part of the black-labelled Gold Standard Series (s/n GB-10489). The song was written by Tim Baty. Presley recorded it on December 12, 1973 at the December 10–16 recording sessions for RCA at the Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The original recorded