and it was then that after he'd written it, that he came into his - his- song publishing offices and - and announced to his musical secretary, 'I've just written a new song. "And," Rosen continued, "over the Christmas season that year - (Berlin) rewrote the lyric. over the Christmas season of 1940 into 1941, I believe, that he - kind of took the song, the half-finished song out of what he called his song trunk," says Jody Rosen, author of "White Christmas: the Story of an American Song." "And it wasn't until - a couple years later.
Many think Berlin was inspired to write "White Christmas" during a stay in Beverly Hills while working on a movie. In the Berlin household, she says, Christmas was "the typical secular Christmas, with a Christmas tree, and Christmas stockings, and a turkey, and a plum pudding, and general cheery atmosphere, and something that as children we - we looked forward to tremendously." Emmett was speaking in the former Berlin residence in New York.
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