Irving Berlin lauded for legacy of songs

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 24, 1989 | Copyright information

NEW YORK Irving Berlin created the American popular song.

Until Berlin began writing after the turn of the century, American music was dominated by Europe - English music hall, Gilbert and Sullivan, Viennese operetta and Italian opera. Berlin took native American sounds, such as ragtime, and turned them into huge popular hits like "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "Everybody's Doin' It Now." When Irving Berlin wrote, America listened - for more than 50 years.

Berlin, who wrote "Always," "God Bless America," "White Christmas," and more than 1,000 other songs in his long career, died in his ...

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