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Irving Berlin

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Irving Berlin , 1888-1989, American songwriter, b. Russia. Berlin's surname was originally Baline. Of his nearly 1,000 songs, Alexander's Ragtime Band (1911) was his first outstanding hit. In 1918, while he was in the army, he wrote, produced, and acted in Yip, Yip, Yaphank, which he rewrote in 1942 as This Is the Army. Berlin wrote songs for several of the Ziegfeld Follies and the Music Box Revue (1921-24) as well as the Broadway musicals As Thousands Cheer (1933), Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Miss Liberty (1949), Call Me Madam (1950), and Mr. President (1962).... Read more

Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin The American composer Irving Berlin (1888-1989) produced about 800 songs, many of which attained...seemed to epitomize the mass American sentiments of the era. Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Tyumen, Russia, on May 11, 1888... Read more

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BERLIN, Irving Composer and Songwriter. Nationality...BERLIN: books — Freedland, Michael, Irving Berlin , London, 1974. Woollcott, Alexander, The Story of Irving Berlin , New York, 1982. Bergreen, Lawrence... Read more

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	IRVING BERLIN, LIKE A MELODY; America's Songwriter and the Music That Made a Century Sing ; ...first person I ever heard sing an Irving Berlin song was my mother. She used to...s song had words and music by Irving Berlin, a Russian-born Jew who became...later, it began to seem as if Irving Berlin, like the hundreds of songs he... Read more
	IRVING BERLIN DEAD AT 101 ; Obituary, Page 57 Irving Berlin, born in Russia, listened to America...immediately that you are listening to Irving Berlin. The reason you know is that Berlin...American words onto American music, Irving Berlin wrote the book. You can't hear the... Read more
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	AMERICA'S MUSIC MAN // The triumphs and frustrations of Irving Berlin ; As Thousands Cheer The Life of Irving Berlin. By Laurence Bergreen. Viking...With "White Christmas," however, Irving Berlin knew that he had written a classic...that anybody ever wrote." The Irving Berlin depicted in this meticulously... Read more
	IRVING BERLIN, ALWAYS; For the Record, The Best Berlin Available ; ...everybody would have some sort of Irving Berlin tribute out by now, and some record...available. Anthologies "The Vintage Irving Berlin" (New World 238). A classic collection...Bennett and Rosemary Clooney. "Irving Berlin: Always" (Verve 835540-1). This... Read more
	Book World; To Stand Beside Her and Guide Her: Her Father, Irving Berlin ; IRVING BERLIN A Daughter's Memoir By Mary Ellin Barrett...citizen of the 1990s about songwriter Irving Berlin and you're likely to hear something like...disinheritance, Ellin Mackay in 1926 eloped with Irving Berlin, an unacceptable Jewish immigrant songwriter... Read more
	IRVING BERLIN: AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL THE COMPOSER OF 1,500 SONGS TO MARK HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY ; Irving Berlin, who has written the words and music...album, "Remember/Michael Feinstein sings Irving Berlin," observes that one of the main ingredients...Cohan and Frank Loesser). The deluge of Irving Berlin song hits began in 1909 with "My Wife... Read more
	Singing the Praises of Irving Berlin; Army Renames Ft. Belvoir Center in Tribute to 'an American Legend' ; Irving Berlin once told his daughter that the best...at Fort Belvoir in his honor. The new Irving Berlin Center bears a bronze plaque that depicts...composer Jerome Kern, who once said: "Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he... Read more
	In Praise of Irving Berlin; Army Renames Fort Belvoir Center As Tribute to 'an American Legend' ; Irving Berlin once told his daughter that the best...at Fort Belvoir in his honor. The new Irving Berlin Center bears a bronze plaque that depicts...composer Jerome Kern, who once said: "Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he... Read more

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