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Yesterday it was the Blue...
Today it's the White (and, make no mistake, the white stuff is coming to Lotusland)...
According to Irving Berlin's daughter White Christmas is both a secular tune and an immigrant song:
..."It's very evocative: the snow, the Christmas card, the sleigh, the sleigh bells," she says. "It's very evocative, and it's entirely secular."
Christmas was not exactly a holiday that Irving Berlin grew up celebrating. He was born in Russia, the son of a cantor, and his first language was Yiddish.
(Linda) Emmet says that her father's experience as an immigrant in America led him to conclude that Christmas was not as much a religious holiday as a cultural one.
"As a Russian Jewish immigrant, when he came to the United States, Christmas was an American holiday to him," she says. "It was like every American holiday. It was a fresh, new experience for him."....
Here's the Advent Jukebox version...
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