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White Christmas: Berlin’s wartime song becomes enduring favorite
Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas for the 1942 film Holiday Inn after a 1940 commission. The tune became a wartime staple, selling a million copies in four months and topping polls as a favorite carol among service members. Berlin calls it his favorite aside from God Bless America.
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