`White Christmas' has had amazing staying power.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 19, 2003 ;     583 words ......you've heard White Christmas this holiday...Christmas past. `White Christmas' is the biggest...wrote the book White Christmas: The Story of...says. Before White Christmas, the holidays...success of `White Christmas,' records become...records. In a ...

'White Christmas' won over the world

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 24, 2003 ;     504 words ......12-24-2003 'White Christmas' won over the...you've heard "White Christmas" this holiday...Christmas past. "-'White Christmas' is the biggest...wrote the book "White Christmas: The Story of...says. Before "White Christmas," the holidays...first ...

'White Christmas' touches everyone's heart

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ...'White Christmas' touches everyone...impression of "White Christmas" is motion. Leaning...music to the next. "White Christmas" travels light...has been heard. "White Christmas" is not like that...second thoughts. "White Christmas" -- as Jody Rosen...follow. ...

May your days be merry and bright; Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' a...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  December 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ......at Christmastime is the song "White Christmas." It brings back fond memories...parents took me to see the movie "White Christmas." I was around 8 or 9 years old...So every time I hear the song "White Christmas" I go back to that evening and...1943. The song of course was ...

Keep on dreaming of that white Christmas.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  December 24, 2003 ;     600 words ......statistics reveal that Morpeth is the white Christmas capital of the North-East. Since...the region woke up to a classic white Christmas. More fell throughout the day...falling on December 25 makes for a white Christmas. That snowflake can even be sleet...touches the ground. But it ...

Snow White Christmas ...for a while anyway.(NEWS)

Sunday Life (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  December 24, 2006 ;     76 words ...BRITONS wanting a white Christmas may have to dream on -- not...average, Britons only see a white Christmas eight times in their lives...said they had never witnessed a white Christmas. The survey also revealed 86pc...

A LIVE 'WHITE CHRISTMAS' THAT'S WORTH DREAMING OF.(U)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Rosemary Clooney chestnut, ``White Christmas,'' and thought, ``Aha! A 'Nutcracker...on a show!'' Cynicism aside, ``White Christmas'' is indeed quite a lot of fun...Skinner (``42nd Street''), ``White Christmas'' glides into the Pantages with...of the season. By the time ``White ...

Dreaming of a white Christmas.(weathertalk)

Weatherwise;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......dreaming of a white Christmas, just like...movie, the song White Christmas was first performed...the remake of Holiday Inn, which was retitled White Christmas for the 1954...perform the song White Christmas with gusto...verse from White ...

The dream behind 'White Christmas'

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......dream behind 'White Christmas' By HAROLD MEYERSON...was America. "White Christmas" is an achingly...of the war, "White Christmas," with its implicit...success of "White Christmas" paved the way...Paramount's "Holiday Inn," MGM filmed...songs before ...

DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS.(SAVVY)

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  December 25, 2003 ;     247 words ......to be up North. Recognize the opening verse of White Christmas ? We thought not. When Bing Crosby recorded the definitive version of White Christmas, his record producer felt the opening lines would...make any sense outside the context of the movie, Holiday Inn, where the song first ...

Keep on dreaming of that white Christmas.(Features)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  December 24, 2003 ;     456 words ......Will Mapplebeck Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? A festive Will Mapplebeck discovers...statistics reveal that Morpeth is the white Christmas capital of the North-East. Since 1971...of the region woke up to a classic white Christmas. More fell throughout the day and...

Skylight dreams of a big 'White Christmas'; Looking for a holiday 'in'

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Skylight has had its holiday hits, but it has never...in "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," which is coming...By all accounts, "White Christmas" came from Berlin...revue idea. It became "Holiday Inn," a vehicle for Paramount...Astaire as co-star. "White ...

"White Christmas"

The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana;      82 words ...00-00-0000 White Christmas White Christmas A 1942 song by Irving BERLIN. Written for the movie Holiday Inn, in which it was sung by Bing CROSBY, it won an Oscar for best song of the year and immediately became a classic of seasonal nostalgia...in the millions and record sales topping ...

You're beaming over 'White Christmas': Votes are in for the best holiday...

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......glisten. But "White Christmas" touches plenty...list of 25 holiday songs online...nostalgia." "White Christmas" has been America's holiday song of choice...osby's 1942 film "Holiday Inn." It won the...At first, "White Christmas" resonated...Christmas ...

Nostalgia with all the trimmings; I'm dreaming of a white Christmas just...

The Christian Science Monitor;  December 19, 2002 ;     644 words ......outlasted them all: White Christmas, with total sales of...phenomenal cultural history White Christmas, our focus on Crosby...of the 1942 release of White Christmas helped catalyze this...be reduced to 32) of White Christmas and heartily proclaimed...ragtime, or, in the ...