IRVING BERLIN DEAD AT 101 From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: September 23, 1989| Author: | Copyright (null) The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Obituary, Page 57 Irving Berlin, born in Russia, listened to America and created songs that embodied everything we'd like to think we are, everything we ought to be.

Over a great career of more than 50 years at the top, Berlin -- who died last night at the age of 101 -- published more than 1,500 songs, and they come in every kind -- ragtime tunes and romantic ballads and patriotic anthems; sweet and sassy, jazzy and soulful. About the only things they have in common with each other is that they are entirely unpretentious -- George M. Cohan said they were songs "you don't have to ...

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