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,
Elvis' Christmas Album decade of the 21st Century, "It's Christmas Time" had become the second biggest selling album in the series, earning a 4X Platinum certification on March 8, 2018, prompting the 1957 version to be available once again in the 2016 60 CD boxed set containing all of Presley's original RCA albums, "Elvis Presley - The RCA Album Collection". All of the tracks are also available on several other RCA compilations of Presley's Christmas recordings, including "Christmas Peace" from 2003, and "Elvis Christmas" from 2006. All the album's songs are also included in the 1992 RCA boxed set "". In late 2007,