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| | Irving Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Berlin was the only person to ever find his own name on the winners' envelope at the Oscars, winning the award for best music in an original song for the song White Christmas in the film Holiday Inn in 1942. | | | Berlin got his start as a lyricist for other composers, and although he never learned how to play a piano or read music beyond a rudimentary level, he wrote over 3,000 songs. | | | In 1946, a Berlin musical with the same title revived the song's popularity, and it reached #8 with Count Basie and #9 with Benny Goodman.(see[4]). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin
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| | Embellishments 3: Irving Berlin: Early Songs, 1907-1914 |
| | Berlin's contribution to a given song cannot be untangled from that of his collaborator(s). | | | Berlin never gave permission for his music to be brought out by other publishers, thus none of his songs was included in anthologies of Tin Pan Alley songs published before copyright protection began expiring on his earliest songs. | | | This edition presents the 190 copyrighted songs published between 1907 and 1914 for which Berlin wrote lyrics, music, or both. |
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| | Bright Lights Film Journal Irving Berlin on Film (1) |
| | Berlin was unusual in that he wrote both music and lyrics (his only competitor was Cole Porter) and unique in that he couldn’t actually write musical notation. | | | Irving Berlin was a songwriter for more than 50 years and wrote over 1,500 songs. | | | Berlin was suspicious of technological innovations like records and radio, which he felt wore out songs too quickly. |
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| | Irving Berlin, The Dean of American Songwriters" |
| | Berlin made a total of 37¢ in royalties from the song. | | | In 1911, Berlin hit the hit song jackpot with a song that swept the country like wildfire; Alexander's Ragtime Band (MIDI, Lyrics). | | | Not having a song handy, Berlin rewrote Alexander as a song with lyrics and presented it at the show. |
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http://parlorsongs.com/bios/berlin/iberlin.asp
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| | VH1.com : Irving Berlin : Biography |
| | Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was the most successful songwriter of the 20th century. | | | It is also because Berlin, who did not read music and could play the piano in only one key and only on the black notes (he used a special piano with a lever that changed keys for him and employed a musical secretary to notate his compositions), wrote songs, not scores. | | | Berlin became his own song publisher and built and owned a Broadway theater, the Music Box, to house his shows. |
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http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/berlin_irving/bio.jhtml
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| | Irving Berlin : Irving Sings Berlin - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | Berlin has a thin, wheezy tenor that even today would deny him a singing career, but his feel for his own lyrics is good, and he sells his songs well. | | | Berlin sometimes reused the melodies -- "The Story of Nell and the Police Gazette" is set to the same tune as the earlier song "Mr. | | | Six tracks come from airchecks of the 1930s and '40s in which Berlin reprises some of his best-known songs, including "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "God Bless America." There are also nine demos for the 1949 musical +Miss Liberty and five from the 1950 show Call Me Madam. |
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| | Berlin Family |
| | Irving Berlin's centennial in 1988 was celebrated world-wide, culminating in an all-star tribute at Carnegie Hall featuring such varied luminaries of the musical world as Frank Sinatra, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Natalie Cole and Willie Nelson. | | | Tellingly, Berlin was so offended by Elvis Presley's 1957 rock 'n' roll version of "White Christmas" that he had his staff call radio stations across the country, urging their personnel not to play it. | | | Jablonski, by contrast, emphasizes the positive: Berlin's relinquishing part of his fee to Dorothy Fields so that she would make as much for the libretto as he did for the music and lyrics. |
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| | Ian Whitcomb Irving Berlin In Hollywood |
| | For Irving Berlin and most of his songwriter colleagues, the triumph of rock marked the end of their long reign as makers, purveyors and controllers of American Music. | | | Ziegfeld also called on Berlin to create an appropriate song, an anthem, to accompany his beauties as they paraded the stage in their beautiful gowns. | | | Berlin joked that these were "S.O.S shows"--meaning that they were full of "songs of situation". |
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| | Irving Berlin |
| | Berlin contributed songs to several editions of The Ziegfeld Follies (the 1919 edition featured his "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody"), and to dozens of Broadway musicals. | | | Berlin wrote both the score and the original story for Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s Reaching for the Moon (1931), but when the producers decided to cut all but one of the songs before the film's release, the experience soured Berlin to the extent that he would not work in Hollywood again for another three years. | | | The first of his Broadway musicals to be adapted for films (and the only one without a hit song) was the 1929 Marx Bros. vehicle The Cocoanuts. |
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http://www.djangomusic.com/actor_bio.asp?pid=P++5711
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -BERLIN, IRVING |
| | Berlin achieved success as a performer in musical revues, which were a popular form of theatrical and musical entertainment in the United States during the years around World War I. He sang his own songs in Up and Down Broadway (1910) and composed the music for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1911, 1919, 1920, and 1927. | | | Just as Berlin's music captured the ear of Americans, it was often heard at the White House. | | | The young Berlin performed on the streets of New York's Lower East Side and as a singing waiter in Chinatown before taking a job as a song plugger. |
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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_009000_berlinirving.htm
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| | As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, by Lawrence Bergreen |
| | No wonder Berlin's insecurities ran wild and he strove, late in life, to protect his songs from abuse and misinterpretation. | | | At bottom, Berlin was a "musical man of the people" (59). | | | In short, this is an intelligent, thorough, and sympathetic biography of a complex man. It traces Berlin's development (and the development of American popular music) from the narrow streets of Tin Pan Alley to the thoroughfares of Broadway and the tree lined boulevards of Hollywood, analyzing dozens of songs along the way. |
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http://www.pitt.edu/~atteberr/jazz/articles/BERGREEN.html
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| | Solid! -- Irving Berlin Biography |
| | Probably the most famous and most important songwriter of the twentieth century, Irving Berlin was active in the music industry for almost sixty years. | | | Never learning to read or play music he used a special piano to help him compose. | | | His song ''Blue Skies'' was featured in the first talkie, The Jazz Singer. |
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http://www.parabrisas.com/d_berlini.html
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| | The Americanization of Irving Berlin by Stefan Kanfer, City Journal Spring 2002 |
| | Asked about Irving’s place in American music at this time, he answered: “To my mind, there are phrases in Berlin’s music as noble and mighty as any clause in the works of the Masters, from Beethoven and Wagner on down.” In short, “Irving Berlin has no place in American music. | | | Berlin’s family was too poor to provide piano lessons, let alone a piano; Berlin would remain musically illiterate. | | | Had the composer retired in the early 1930s, he’d be remembered as two Irving Berlins—the writer of “singles,” songs that went out and succeeded on their own; and the creator of words and music for Broadway revues. |
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http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_2_urbanities-the_americaniz.html
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| | SHOW BUSINESS: Irving Berlin's Broadway |
| | The frisson of live performance was an integral part of Berlin’s music. | | | From interpolations to the integrated musical, Irving Berlin’s story tells the evolution of the Broadway musical as an art form. | | | Here Berlin is with Flo Ziegfeld (left) and dance director Sammy Lee (right) at a rehearsal of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1927, for which the songwriter wrote the complete score. |
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http://www.sfpalm.org/exhibits/Berlin/Berlin.htm
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| | Dreaming of Irving Berlin in the Season That He Owned - New York Times |
| | Irving Berlin at the piano with Fred Astaire, left, Ann Miller and Peter Lawford in 1948. | | | Leopold's Berlin book is a 240-page visual biography summoning up the songwriter's legacy in an assemblage of photographs, drawings, posters, set and costume designs, sheet music and album covers. | | | His six-decade career, from 1907 to 1966, spanned sheet music, the stage, recordings, radio, film and television, and for millions his canon continues to evoke powerful emotions. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/arts/music/23berl.html?ex=1292994000&en=b85a08e16a3a2e50&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| | Irving Berlin -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | U.S. composer Irving Berlin played a leading role in the evolution of the popular song from the early ragtime and jazz eras through the golden age of musicals. | | | The range of Christmas music, both sacred and secular, is large—from the majestic oratorio ‘Messiah' by George Frideric Handel to the lighthearted song ‘Here Comes Santa Claus.' The most popular of nonreligious tunes is probably Irving Berlin's ‘White Christmas', written for the movie ‘Holiday Inn', released in 1942. | | | His easy mastery of a wide range of song styles, for both stage and motion pictures, made him perhaps the greatest and most enduring of American songwriters. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9078801?source=RSSOTD
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| | God Bless America (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress |
| | Berlin's file of manuscripts and lyric sheets for this quintessentially American song includes manuscripts in the hand of Berlin's longtime musical secretary, Helmy Kresa (Berlin himself did not read and write music), as well as lyric sheets, and corrected proof copies for the sheet music. | | | The first proof copy is dated October 31, 1938; the earliest "final" version of the song is a manuscript dated November 2; and Kate Smith's historic broadcast took place on November 11. | | | These documents show the song's step-by-step evolution from the original version of 1918 to the tune we now know. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm019.html
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| | Amazon.com: Irving Berlin: American Troubadour (Irving Berlin): Books: Edward Jablonski |
| | Furia has good illustrations and presents perhaps a bit more musical analysis in a work emphasizing Berlin's movie musicals, but both writers are good storytellers who recount Berlin's life from a contemporary perspective. | | | Some of his songs that have become a permanent part of the American musical repertoire are: "White Christmas," "Easter Parade," and, of course, Kate Smith's rendition of "God Bless America." Interestingly, "God Bless America" had been a sort of throw-away song when it was written, not being sung at the time. | | | There are many more Berlin songs with which we are all familiar, but the three just mentioned are adequate examples. |
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| | Jewish-American Hall of Fame -- Virtual Tour |
| | He is American music." Berlin songs include America's unofficial national anthem "God Bless America," as well as perennial standards "Easter Parade" and "White Christmas," plus about 1,500 more for which he wrote both music and lyrics. | | | In 1924, songwriter Jerome Kern observed "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. | | | Plaque by Marika Somogyi (1988), Irving Berlin, Songwriter. |
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| | Irving Berlin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Irving Berlin |
| | His song ‘White Christmas’, performed by Bing Crosby, became one of the popular songs ever recorded. | | | He began providing songs for vaudeville and revues and went on to own a theatre, the Music Box, where he appeared in his own revues in 1921 and 1923. | | | Born in Belarus, Berlin grew up in New York and had his first song published in 1907. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Irving+Berlin
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| | The Christmas He Dreamed for All of Us |
| | And by the crass index of number of recordings sold, and the not-so-crass index of number of spirits touched, Berlin's nonsectarian holiday has been the predominant version of Christmas in this country for the past 60 years. | | | When he left home at 14 to sing in the saloons of the Bowery, he never looked back. | | | The success of "White Christmas" paved the way for a whole new genre of Christmas songs. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122001011.html
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| | Irving Berlin (I) |
| | Irving Berlin was one of the most important songwriters in the USA. | | | Love Actually (2003) (song "White Christmas&;) (as Berlin) | | | Steve & Eydie Celebrate Irving Berlin (1978) (TV) (songs) |
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| | Irving Berlin |
| | Berlin wrote the first song ever to be used in a film--"Blue Skies", performed by Al Jolson in "The Jazz Singer" (1927). | | | One of the most important composers of American popular music in the twentieth century, Berlin, whose "Alexander's Ragtime Band" all but invented the popular song, dominated American musical films and plays of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. | | | The English Patient - (Music(("Check to Check" (Irving Berlin Music Company))) / 1996 / Released / Miramax Home Entertainment) |
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| | The Top Earners For 2004 - Forbes.com |
| | Along with huge publishing royalties, Berlin's heirs also own half of the historic Music Box theater in New York. | | | Over the next five decades, Berlin would produce a repertoire that defined American music: musicals (Annie Get Your Gun), jazz standards ("Cheek to Cheek," "Puttin' on the Ritz") and novelty tunes ("White Christmas," "God Bless America"). | | | Landed his first major hit with "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. |
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http://www.forbes.com/lists/2004/10/25/cx_2004deadcelebtears_8.html
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| | Celebrity Caricature in America Irving Berlin |
| | Irving Berlin, starting as a self-taught songwriter on New York's Lower East Side, composed "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911 and went on to capture Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood with such beloved classics as "Dancing Cheek to Cheek," "Easter Parade," and "God Bless America." Shortly after Covarrubias drew him for | | | Critic William Murrell observed an "archaic note in the geometric and sculptural quality of his line," and admired their vitality. | | | , Berlin married socialite Ellin Mackay, a café society event that provoked front-page coverage. |
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http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/berlin.htm
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| | Irving Berlin |
| | Berlin wrote songs and had his first hit in 1909 with | | | After the war Berlin wrote several musicals before concentrating on films including the | | | When he was four years old his family emigrated to the United States and the family settled in the lower east side of New York. |
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| | - SHOP.COM |
| | Song Tracks 'Cheek to Cheek', Irving Berlin 3 m. | | | All other designated trademarks, copyrights and brands are the property of their respective owners. | | | Sing 10 of the best-known songs from the legendary American writer Irving Berlin! |
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| | Todd Peach's Irving Berlin Lyrics Page |
| | For a complete 'Sonography', (and even more Berlin lyrics) check out this page. | | | After a few odd requests, I decided it would be easy to show a page by composer, so here it is. | | | Most of these can be found on Irving Berlin Songbook, Vol.1, Irving Berlin Songbook, Vol.2 or The Complete Songbooks |
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| | Berlin, Irving. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | He was the composer of numerous film scores, and several of his stage musicals were filmed. | | | 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. | | | See C. Hamm, ed., Irving Berlin: Early Songs (1995), and R. Kimball and L. Emmet, ed., The Complete Lyrics of Irvine Berlin (2001); M. Barrett, Irving Berlin: A Daughter’s Memoir (1994); biographies by M. Freedland (1974), L. Bergreen (1990), and E. Jablonski (1999). |
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| | Irving Berlin |
| | Irving Berlin - Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) songwriter Born: 5/11/1888 Birthplace: Temum, Russia Considered by... | | | Irving Berlin - Composer, born 11 May 1888, The composer of "White Christmas" | | | May 11 Birthdays: Salvador Dali - A list of May 11 birthdays with links to an article on each person, plus a profile of Salvador Dali, also born on May 11 |
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| | Isaiah Berlin / Irving Berlin |
| | Poor Berlin obviously couldn't quite make out what this man had said. | | | He still thought it was me. Obviously my despatches were quite coherent, but he obviously had an idiot before him. | | | Excerpt from edited transcript of 'Desert Island Discs' |
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| | Irving Berlin - Wikiquote |
| | Irving Berlin, (1888 - 1989) American composer and lyricist | | | Because of a change in the settings of this wiki, the "E-mail this user" function will not work anymore if you do not confirm your e-mail address |
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| | Irving Berlin |
| | Irving Berlin: Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914. | | | As Thousands Cheer : The Life of Irving Berlin | | | Furia, Philip; with the assistance of Graham Wood; songography" compiled by Ken Bloom. |
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| | IMDb Name Search |
| | Colin Irving (I) (Actor, Dead Poets Society (1989)) | | | There may be additional matches in special interest areas that are only available to users choosing to see them. | | | A search for "Irving Berlin" found the following results: |
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