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Plenty to Be Thankful For

The Gig enters this holiday season full of gratitude (and stuffing).

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Nate Chinen
Nov 22, 2023
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Here’s a confession: I don’t believe I’ve ever seen Holiday Inn, the 1942 Paramount musical starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. (Gasp! Go easy on me.) Best remembered today as the production that gave us “White Christmas,” it also introduced a handful of other Irving Berlin songs, each pegged to some observance. As the voiceover in the original theat…

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