![]() ![]() In this vividly written narrative, Jody Rosen provides both the fascinating story behind the making of America's favorite Christmas carol and a cultural history of the nation that embraced it. By the time Bing Crosby introduced the tune in the winter of 1942, it had evolved into something far grander: the stately yuletide ballad that would become the world's all-time top-selling and most widely recorded song. ![]() ![]() When Irving Berlin first conceived the song "White Christmas," he envisioned it as a "throwaway" - a satirical novelty number for a vaudeville-style stage revue. ![]()
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