rving Berlin was born Israel Baline on May 11, 1888, one of eight children of Moses and Lena Lipkin Baline. His birthplace is Tyumen, in Eastern Russia. His father, a cantor in a Jewish synagogue, uprooted the family to America, as did many other Jewish families in late 19th century. In 1893 they settled in New York City.
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Full Name: Israel Baline
Description: Composer, Pianist, USA
Known For: His best known work is the famed “WHITE CHRISTMAS”
Instruments: Piano
Music Styles: Easy Listening
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 11th May 1888
Location Born: Mosilyov, Belarus
Date Died: 22nd September 1989
Location Died: New York City, New York, United States of America
Memorial: He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
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Irving Berlin
An American composer and lyricist widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in history.
His first hit song, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”, became world famous.
Over the years he was known for writing music and lyrics in the American vernacular: uncomplicated, simple and direct, with his aim being to “reach the heart of the average American.”
He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which made him “a legend” before he turned thirty.
During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards.
Composer George Gershwin called him “the greatest songwriter that has ever lived”, and composer Jerome Kern concluded that “Irving Berlin has no place in American music – he is American music.”
The 1942 film Holiday Inn introduced “White Christmas”, one of the most recorded songs in history. First sung in the film by Bing Crosby, it sold over 30 million records and stayed #1 on the pop and R&B charts for 10 weeks. Crosby’s single was the best-selling single in any music category for more than fifty years.
Berlin died in his sleep on September 22, 1989, in New York City at the age of 101 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
Stage:
“Watch Your Step” (1914)
“Stop! Look! Listen!” (1915)
“The Century Girl” (1916)
“Yip! Yip! Yaphank” (1918)
“Ziegfeld Follies” (1919)
“Music Box Revue” (1921)
“Music Box Revue” (1922)
“Music Box Revue” (1923)
“Music Box Revue” (1924)
“The Cocoanuts” (1925)
“Face the Music” (1932)
“As Thousands Cheer” (1933)
“Louisiana Purchase” (1940)
“This Is the Army” (1942)
“Annie Get Your Gun” (1946)
“Miss Liberty” (1949)
“Call Me Madam” (1950)
“Mr. President” (1962)
Film scores:
Puttin’ on the Ritz (1929)
The Cocoanuts (1929)
Top Hat (1935)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
On the Avenue (1937)
Carefree (1938)
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)
Second Fiddle (1939)
Holiday Inn (1942)
This Is the Army (1943)
Easter Parade (1948)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Call Me Madam (1953)
There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954)
White Christmas (1954)
Listed songs include:
“A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” (1915)
“After You Get What You Want, You Don’t Want It” (1920)
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
“All Alone” (1924)
“All by Myself” (1921)
“All of My Life”
“Always” (1925)
“Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)”
“Be Careful It’s My Heart”
“The Best Thing for You”
“Blue Skies” (1926)
“Change Partners”
“Cheek to Cheek”
“Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep”
“Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly”
“Easter Parade”
Everybody Step
“Follow the Crowd”
“For Your Country and My Country” (1917)
“Free”
“The Girl on the Magazine Cover”
“The Girl That I Marry”
“God Bless America”
“Happy Holiday”
“Heat Wave” (1933)
“Hostess with the Mostes'”
“How Deep is the Ocean?”
“I’ll Be Loving You, Always”
“I Got Lost in His Arms”
“I’m Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind” (1917)
“I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket”
“It’s a Lovely Day Today”
“I’ve Got My Captain Working for Me Now
“I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”
“I Love a Piano” (1915)
“I Used to Be Color Blind” (1938)
“I Want to Go Back to Michigan”
“I Lost My Heart In Dixieland” (1919)
“(Just One Way to Say) I Love You”
“Lady of the Evening”
“Let Me Sing and I’m Happy”
“Let’s All Be Americans Now” (1917)
“Let’s Face the Music and Dance”
“Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk”
“Let Yourself Go”
“Little Fish in a Big Pond”
“Lost in His Arms”
“Mandy” (1917)
“Marching Along with Time,” (1938)
“Marie” (1929)[1] (AKA “Marie (The Dawn Is Breaking)”
“Marie from Sunny Italy” (1907)
“Moonshine Lullaby”
“My British Buddy” (1943)
“No Strings”
“Now It Can Be Told”
“Old Fashioned Wedding” (1966)
“Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” (1917)
“Oh, How That German Could Love”
“Once Upon a Time Today”
“Pack up Your Sins and Go to the Devil”
“Paris Wakes up and Smiles”
“Play a Simple Melody” aka “Simple Melody/Musical Demon” 1914
“Puttin’ on the Ritz” (1930)
“Reaching for the Moon”
“Remember”
“Russian Lullaby”
“Say it Isn’t So”
“Say It With Music”
“Sing a Song of Sing Sing”
“Sisters” (1953)
“Slumming On Park Avenue”
“The Song is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)”
“Soft Light and Sweet Music”
“Stay Down Here Where You Belong”
“Steppin’ Out with My Baby”
“The Girl That I Marry”
“There’s No Business Like Show Business” (1946)
“They Love Me” (1962)
“They Say It’s Wonderful”
“They Were All Out of Step But Jim” (1917)
“Top Hat, White Tie and Tails”
“Waiting At The End Of The Road” (1929)
“What Chance Have I With Love?”
“What Do I Have to Do to Get My Picture in the Paper?”
“What’ll I Do?” (1924)
“When I Leave the World Behind”
“When I Lost You”
“When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam” (1912)
“White Christmas” (1942)
“Who Do You Love, I Hope?
“You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun”
‘You Keep Coming Back Like a Song”
“You’d Be Surprised”
“You’re Just in Love”
“You’re Laughing at Me”
Above: Berlin with film stars Alice Faye, Tyrone Power and Don Ameche singing chorus from Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938)
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