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- University of Warwick historian Professor Bernard Capp said the ban was put in place by the Puritan government in 1647 as they believed Christmas was used as an excuse for drunkenness, promiscuity, gambling and other forms of excess.
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Dec 22, 2020 · Elvis Presley's cover of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" is one of the most popular holiday songs ever but it almost got banned in 1957. Berlin didn't like Presley and tried to get radio ...
- Mandi Kerr
With the atheistic Cult of Reason in power during the era of the French Revolution, Christian Christmas religious services were banned and the three kings cake was forcibly renamed the "equality cake" under anticlerical government policies.
Dec 19, 2023 · “White Christmas” received its first public broadcast on Christmas Eve 1941, during Bing Crosby’s radio show.
Dec 13, 2023 · Irving Berlin's smash hit tune "White Christmas" was originally used for the 1942 Christmas movie "Holiday Inn," starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, and not for the eponymous 1954...
- Sarah Paris
Dec 22, 2022 · Elvis’ 1957 version of Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ was banned when a judge in Jacksonville accused the singer of “undermining the youth of America”. His inoffensive cover song and the...
Nov 13, 2020 · Back in 1647, Christmas was banned in the kingdoms of England (which at the time included Wales), Scotland and Ireland and it didn’t work out very well.
It's a commonly held belief that Cromwell 'banned' Christmas. His reputation as a highly puritanical political leader has always been hotly debated, and as with all controversial figures, myths and legends about his famously zealous character have proliferated.
