A WHITE CHRISTMAS WITH GRIMETH

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s musical career begins after auditions are held in London, UK to find potential band members, with over 3,000 hopefuls showing up to audition. White Christmas' is still the gold standard for holiday singles". Belleville News . Retrieved November 5, 2023. WHITE CHRISTMAS (U)". British Board of Film Classification. September 13, 1954 . Retrieved December 4, 2014. White Christmas is a 1954 American musical film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen. Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin, including a new version of the title song, " White Christmas", introduced by Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn.

December – Composers Richard Rodney Bennett and Elton John are among those receiving knighthoods in the New Year's Honours List. a b c Harris, Roy J. Jr. (December 5, 2009). "The Best-Selling Record of All. 'White Christmas' and the reasons it endures". The Wall Street Journal. New York . Retrieved December 6, 2009. It was a peaceful song that became a wartime classic. Its unorthodox, melancholy melody, and mere 54 words, expressing the simple yearning for a return to happier times—sounded instantly familiar when sung by America's favorite crooner. But 67 years after its introduction, some still are surprised to learn that Bing Crosby's recording of the Irving Berlin ballad "White Christmas" became not only the runaway smash-hit for the World War II holidays, but the best-selling record of all time. The list of every UK Christmas Number 1 single ever, from the very first festive chart topper in 1952 - Al Martino's Here In My Heart - to LadBaby's record-breaking four Christmas Number 1s on the bounce. YEAR October – Aphex Twin courts controversy with the video to his single " Come to Daddy'". The video is banned by TV networks for being "too frightening".

a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Christmas in the Charts (1920–2004). Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p.124. ISBN 0-89820-161-6. Andy Williams' Yule Mark: Tops 2 Charts". Billboard. Cincinnati, Ohio. December 21, 1963 . Retrieved January 1, 2020.

Minstrel Number: "I'd Rather See a Minstrel Show" / "Mister Bones" / " Mandy" (Crosby, Kaye, Clooney & Chorus) White Christmas' with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen". Harrison's Reports. August 28, 1954. pp.138–139 . Retrieved December 8, 2022– via Internet Archive. A review in The Guardian wrote that "there is, on this evidence, nothing much wrong with VistaVision; the shape of its huge screen is in accordance with the normal picture seen by the human eye (it is high as well as wide and does not. therefore, look like a vast letter-box) and it gives a nice impression of depth. Alas, there is much wrong with the film itself: this " musical " is unfair both to Kaye and to Crosby, both of whom can be very funny when their script-writers permit." [30] The mother of all solo instrumental albums, and with good reason. Mixing traditional carols with Pachelbel's Canon and a few originals, George Winston produces a solo piano album of unparalleled -- and undeniable -- beauty. How can music be simultaneously stirring and soothing, relaxed yet exalted? Millions have found the answer here, and an industry has spent decades trying to duplicate it.

White Christmas-bianco Natale by Andrea Bocelli - Music Charts". acharts.us . Retrieved January 16, 2018. The song established that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs [13]—in this case, written by a Jewish immigrant to the United States. [14] Ronald D. Lankford, Jr., wrote, "During the 1940s, 'White Christmas' would set the stage for a number of classic American holiday songs steeped in a misty longing for yesteryear." Before 1942, Christmas songs and films had come out sporadically, and many were popular. However, "the popular culture industry had not viewed the themes of home and hearth, centered on the Christmas holiday, as a unique market" until after the success of "White Christmas" and the film where it appeared, Holiday Inn. [15] Dave Marsh and Steve Propes wrote, "'White Christmas' changed Christmas music forever, both by revealing the huge potential market for Christmas songs and by establishing the themes of home and nostalgia that would run through Christmas music evermore." [16] a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Christmas in the Charts (1920-2004). Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p.55. ISBN 0-89820-161-6.

The best-selling Christmas album of 1960 was Christmas Sing-Along with Mitch, by Mitch Miller & the Gang. ASCAP Announces Top 25 Holiday Songs of the Decade". ASCAP. November 23, 2009 . Retrieved December 9, 2011. January – Noel Gallagher courts controversy in an interview in which he claimed that taking drugs was "like having a cup of tea in the morning".

Jones, Kenneth (November 22, 2005). "Snow in L.A.! Irving Berlin's White Christmas Begins Nov. 22 in City of Angels". Playbill. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008.