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Tragedy Struck Composer Irving Berlin on Christmas Day. Years Later, He Would Write One of the All-Time Holiday Classics
White Christmas” is one of the world’s best-selling tunes and continues to be in rotation more than eight decades later ...
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The sad story behind America’s favorite Christmas song revealed
“White Christmas” might be the best-selling Christmas carol ever, but the song’s backstory has less to do with tidings of comfort and joy than it does with the tragedy of loss and war.
Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...
Bing Crosby’s rendition of “White Christmas” became particularly emotional for soldier serving in World War II — leading to ...
Snow at Christmas. It shows up in just about every holiday movie ever made. Sometimes it’s a gentle coating making spirits bright. In “ It’s a Wonderful Life, ” Jimmy Stewart finds his guardian angel ...
We all long for a White Christmas. The peaceful way that those pristine white crystals fall from the sky create the perfect sense of calm. The scenery that they create is even better. During the ...
A decade later in 1954, Crosby reimagined the track as the star of the hit musical film White Christmas, where it became the ...
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