"White Christmas," Elvis Presley (RCA)

This was never released as a single, but is notable for the fact, as reported in the book Merry Christmas Baby by Dave Marsh and Steve Propes, that the composer, Irving Berlin, took it upon himself to call radio stations across the country and demand they not play The Pelvis' version of his treasured song. Few people paid any attention to him although, according to the liner notes of If Every Day Was Like Christmas, one Portland disc jockey was fired for playing it and the whole album was banned in Canada. As noted in the post about the Drifters' version from several years earlier, Elvis used their arrangement, but the original version appears to have escaped Berlin's notice for some reason appropriate to the era. Elvis did release "Blue Christmas" as a single in 1964, however, and "Merry Christmas Baby" in 1971.