It's Christmas, and the First Night of Hannukah....
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When Bing Crosby's nephew asked him casually, late in Bing's life, about the most difficult moment of his career, he expected some juicy gossip about a difficult Hollywood director or the story of a struggle with a studio.
But Bing instead told him it was on a USO tour in December of 1944 in an open-air field in France.
He'd just made 15,000 French and American troops laugh and holler with Dinah Shore and The Andrews Sisters and now had to close the show with a quieter number: "White Christmas."
He described having to maintain his composure and vocal control in front of 15,000 crying GIs as the toughest moment of his career.
He never wore his toupee on USO tours - a small thing, but he thought these occasions were above Hollywood artifice - and more importantly insisted that no officers or other top brass got front row seats. Front row seats belonged to enlisted men who were headed for the front
lines.
A few days after this performance, his audience was sent into the Battle of the Bulge, one of the deadliest conflicts in the history of the US.