White Christmas goes K-pop

White Christmas has made it to the era of K-Pop. The big music news this week is that V, one of those cute guys of BTS, is releasing a new version of White Christmas.

- BABY A. GIL

This is no ordinary single. The recording has V in a duet with Bing Crosby, the American singer who originally recorded the song.

Talk about longevity, staying power, even immortality. Those are the qualities that great songs are made of. They come out, but instead of fading to oblivion, they stay and stay and stay on and on to become classics, listened to and loved by generations. And in the case of White Christmas, with V releasing this recording, it has now reached the era of K-Pop.

Now 82 years old, White Christmas was the first secular holiday song to become a big hit. It was composed by the Jewish Russian immigrant Irving Berlin, whose songs formed a huge part of America's Tin Pan Alley during its early days. Think George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart and other music greats. Berlin, who never studied music, was among the best and the biggest. True Love, Always, Cheek to Cheek, God Bless America and other hits.