An excerpt from the new book Hollywood Victory by Christian Blauvelt delves into why Irving Berlin's

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song "White Christmas" struck a chord during World War II:

"When he walked into his office at 799 Broadway in New York City on Monday, January 8, 1940, he told his arranger Helmy Kresa, ‘I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote.’ Very quickly, Berlin, then 51 and riding almost three decades of extraordinary success as America’s favorite songwriter, settled on Crosby as the man to sing his new creation."

Read more on Billboard here: https://bit.ly/3BO1O5i https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9653278/hollywood-victory-book-white-christmas/?

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1. The actual opening lines of White Christmas are:

The sun is shining, the grass is green,
The orange and the palm trees sway.
There's never been such a day
In Beverly Hills LA.

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2. . . . so

I'm dreaming of . . . !!!

[Tomconroy]

3. Up north:

But it's December the twenty fourth
And I'm longing to be up north.

You know the rest.