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To: Justin C who wrote (66371)	12/23/2004 10:23:39 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Not exactly the stuff of Irving Berlin at Christmastime True, I have never met anyone who was dreaming of Christmas in Houston. We did get a couple of inches of snow, and it was indeed White for a day here. Not that I went out in it. Why bother. It was just as cold in our house as outside. Maybe if Berlin wrote fast.. he could have written about White Yuppieville. PBS had a three night special on the History of the AMerican musical a while back which I taped. Irving Berlin's story is fascinating. He is the epitome of successful assimilation and is evidence of how the process worked when America became such a wonderful melting pot early in the last century. He embraced everything America offered and just flat out WORKED. A Russian immigrant who came over with his family to escape the pogroms, he was on the street earning money to help support his family after his father died and started writing songs on the side. He had only a couple of years of actual education, which is amazing. What a gift he must have had. An unabashed patriot, he raised money for the war effort during both WWI and II. And of course he gave us God Bless America. Someone said that he didn't have a place in AMerican music; he WAS American music. Pretty good for a little Russian kid.