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TIL Jewish composer Irving Berlin struggled to pen a Christmas song for the film Holiday Inn. Finally finishing “White Christmas”, he supposedly said “Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote!” Bing Crosby’s 1947 record is the bestselling single…of ALL TIME.

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