From 1935 to 1938, the " Screen Songs " featured the orchestras of Abe Lyman, Richard Huber, Hal Kemp, Vincent Lopez, Joe Reichman, Dick Stable, Nat Brandywine, Hal King, Shep Fields, Gus Arnheim, Jay Freeman, Jerry Baline, Bert Block, Frank Dailey, and Jimmy Dorsey.
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As for " White Christmas " itself, its composer was born Israel Baline, the son of an Orthodox Jewish cantor, and the white Christmases he first experienced were in the pogrom-ravaged Siberian shtetl of Tyumen, where he lived the first five years of his life before making a fateful steerage-class journey to a new life in the New World.
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Obviously, this fiery competitor, right out of the Ty Cobb-Jackie Robinson-Pete Rose, you-ll-have-to-tear-this-uniform-off-my-baLine is overdrawn ck-before-I'll-come-out-of-a-game ilk, decided it would be far more important to preserve his . 301 average than putting it on the line in the final two games against Jose Lima and Mike Hampton.
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"God Bless America " _ that hymn of gratitude composed by the man born Israel Baline, who arrived at Ellis Island in 1893 as a 5-year-old refugee from the pogrom-scourged shtetl of Tyumen in Siberia _ is a milestone of Jewish-American acculturation matched perhaps only by another Berlin magnum opus, " White Christmas " : a symbol of the way in which the Jews who wrote songs and founded movie studios reinvented American popular culture in their own image.
