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With 'White Christmas,' Irving Berlin and Bing Crosby helped make Christmas a holiday that all Americans could celebrate

Irving Berlin was a Jewish immigrant who loved America. As his 1938 song “God Bless America” suggests, he believed deeply in the nation’s potential for goodness, unity and global leadership.

The Conversation

The 10 best Christmas songs of all time: 2023 edition

These 10 Christmas songs are the best of all time.

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11 Christmas movies on Netflix to stream over the holidays

Netflix offers a wide array of holiday movies old and new for subscribers to watch

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The story of David Bowie and Bing Crosby's Little Drummer Boy: "David wasn’t going to do the show, and his mum said, ‘No, you HAVE to work with Bing Crosby!’ She was a fan"

A schmaltzy TV special did not seem the most likely vehicle for a hit Christmas single, but this 1977 collaboration between David Bowie and Bing Crosby yielded an enduring classic that cuts across the generational divide

MusicRadar

Chances of white Christmas in UK grow smaller as climate crisis takes toll

Parts of UK have more recently gone decades without Christmas snow, and in the past it was more hardship than dream

The Guardian - UK

Things to do in Chicago Dec. 7-13: The Mix

A Doja Cat tour stop, Cirque du Soleil’s holiday show and several ‘Nutcracker’ productions are among the entertainment highlights of the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

The enduring wartime spirit that powers classic Christmas songs

Eighty years ago this week, Judy Garland walked into an MGM studio and recorded Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas for the first time. It was written for the musical Meet Me in St Louis (1944), only part of which is set at Christmas – but no matter. Its music…

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When you get the call to come play at Disney World, you don't want to play any weird old Smashing Pumpkins songs": Watch "Disney mark" Billy Corgan cover Bing Crosby with Smashing Pumpkins

Ever wondered how Smashing Pumpkins would sound covering a Bing Crosby Christmas song? Wonder no more

Metal Hammer

10 best classic Christmas movies — and where to stream them

Our list of the 10 best classic Christmas movies that you can watch over and over again.

Tom’s Guide

An all-time great: how Michael Parkinson changed British television

He pioneered new formats, could get almost any guest in the world and conducted the best interviews ever. Parky was one of the finest broadcasters of any era

The Guardian - UK

"We take the original image and split it through a double vibrocated sploshing flange with double negative feedback": The Beatles, Les Paul, or Larry Levine? Who really discovered flanging?

Lennon and George Martin are often given the credit, but flanging might well have been around for years before they 'discovered' it

MusicRadar

Streaming: Godland and the best priests in cinema

The slowly unravelling Lutheran pastor in Godland joins a colourful procession of men of the cloth on film, from all-singing, Oscar-winning Bing Crosby to Robert Mitchum’s psycho killer in Night of the Hunter

The Guardian - UK

The Canadian Tuxedo Is Having a Moment—but Is It Actually Canadian?

On the long, strange history of the double-denim look

The Walrus

Brooks Koepka keeps his cool as chaos comes to Hollywood

Some of you will probably remember that old golfing ditty, Straight Down the Middle, by Bing Crosby.

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Daily Record

Singing Scots pensioner who raised thousands for charity facing care home eviction

Margaret Mackie, 87, uplifted the nation during the pandemic with her versions of Frank Sinatra’s My Way and Bing Crosby’s White Christmas.

Chicago Sun-Times

Demolition of resort made famous in Elvis Presley’s ‘Blue Hawaii’ will make way for new hotel

The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel. In its heyday, it was famed for being frequented by other Hollywood stars like Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Bing Crosby.

Evening Standard

Best denim jackets and jeans for women to go for a full Canadian tuxedo

Looking good, eh?

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Sources: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am to become designated event, celebs/amateurs out for the weekend

Golfweek has learned Bill Murray may have made his final weekend appearance at Pebble Beach.

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Baseball quiz: It’s my quiz, and I can ask if I want to

Baseball has been filled with celebrity owners. See if you recall their teams.

The Independent UK

‘Oscar will never leave my house again’: 12 Oscar winners whose awards were stolen, destroyed or vanished

From the stolen Academy Award recovered from an airport bin to the time Matt Damon’s Oscar washed away in a flood, Adam White recalls the gold-plated vanishing acts that stars would love to forget

Tribune News Service

On Gardening: Award-winning Toucan Cannas will have you singing 'Mele Kalikimaka' in July

Christmas week and the pending arctic blast have put dread in the hearts of most gardeners in the South. But old Bing and The Andrews Sisters and their Christmas rendition of "Mele Kalikimaka" has put a spring into my step and an idea of what we can all do.

The Conversation

Christmas isn't always holly jolly – even some of its best-loved songs are bittersweet

In American culture, Christmas is supposed to be synonymous with joy. The familiar carols proclaim this message, with “Joy to the World” resounding in thousands of churches, while its secular counterpart exhorts listeners to have “A Holly Jolly Christmas.”

Salon

Our plucky Christmas fundraising fantasy

Has a show ever really saved anything?

Daily Mirror

Top 10 favourite Christmas songs - with controversial classic topping the list

The 1987 hit from The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl took over half of the vote - followed by Wham!'s 1984 track, Last Christmas

Daily Mirror

Slade to Mariah Carey - Surprising amount the stars make from Christmas No 1 singles

Christmas wouldn't be the same without the sound of Shakin' Stevens or Wham! playing on the radio every December. But it begs the question - how much do the festive tunes make the musicians every year?

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