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2006-10-30 08:49:38 · 6 answers · asked by The Guy 1 in Entertainment & Music Music

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early 1940

2006-10-30 08:51:48 · answer #1 · answered by barnacle1988 3 · 0 0

White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmases. The morning after he wrote the song — Berlin usually stayed up all night writing — the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — hell, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!"


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Berlin wrote the song in early 1940. A Russian-Jewish immigrant with little direct experience of the holiday, he struggled with writing a Christmas song before hitting on a light-hearted theme. The original verse pokes fun at a well-off Los Angeleno who, amid orange and palm trees, longs for traditional Christmas "up north." Berlin later dropped the verse but kept the now-famous chorus.

"White Christmas" was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1942 musical Holiday Inn. In the film, he actually sings it in a duet with Marjorie Reynolds. The song went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Song.

2006-10-30 08:53:14 · answer #2 · answered by answer 1 · 0 0

Berlin wrote the song in early 1940. A Russian-Jewish immigrant with little direct experience of the holiday, he struggled with writing a Christmas song before hitting on a light-hearted theme. The original verse pokes fun at a well-off Los Angeleno who, amid orange and palm trees, longs for traditional Christmas "up north." Berlin later dropped the verse but kept the now-famous chorus.

2006-10-30 08:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0 1

Berlin wrote the song in early 1940

2006-10-30 08:53:46 · answer #4 · answered by blackandblue_as 1 · 0 0

in which hotel did Irving Berlin write his song

2016-12-24 08:34:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0 0

1942 for the movie Holiday Inn (from which the now-famous hotel chain took its name). Most think it was written for the movie White Christmas, but that came out later, borne from the popularity of the song.

2006-10-30 08:51:39 · answer #6 · answered by Emm 6 · 0 0

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