Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep

Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep is a song, written by Irving Berlin and published in 1954.

Berlin wrote the song for the film White Christmas ( White Christmas, 1955), directed by Michael Curtiz. In the film, Bing Crosby sings next to the famous Christmas song White Christmas also Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep. The words Count Your Blessings took over Berlin probably from the hymn When Upon Life's Billow by Johnson Oatman Jr. from 1897. Due to the popularity of the song was Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep in the United States to a figure of speech.

The song received it in 1955 an Oscar nomination for Best Song. The first lines of the song are:

Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep was taken in the 1950s in the United States by numerous musicians, including Rosemary Clooney, Arthur Godfrey, Arthur Norman, as well as the vocal bands The Orioles (on Jubilee Records) and The Demensions ( Coral ). Other cover versions of the song took in later years, inter alia, to Diana Krall ( Christmas Songs, 2005), Steven Pasquale, Ken Peplowski and Toshiko Akiyoshi.