irving berlin

     

It was once said of this man who lived to be 101: He "has no place in American music. He is American music"

Trivia about irving berlin

  • He wrote the songs "There's No Business Like Show Business" & "White Christmas"
  • He got an Oscar for "White Christmas" & a Medal of Honor for songs like "God Bless America"
  • This composer's musical "Annie Get Your Gun" premieres on Broadway May 16, 1946
  • His first published song was 1909's "Marie from Sunny Italy"; later ones include "Cheek to Cheek" & "Easter Parade"
  • When he began writing songs in 1907, singing waiter Israel Baline became him
  • The uniform seen here was worn by this patriotic songwriter when he played himself in "This Is the Army"
  • As a presenter at the 1942 Oscars, this composer announced himself as the winner for Best Song for "White Christmas"
  • In 1911 he established his reputation as a songwriter with "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
  • Charles Strouse wrote the music for "Annie" & this composer did the music for "Annie Get Your Gun"
  • To help the war effort, this composer wrote "Any Bonds Today?" for the Treasury Department
  • He said his "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was a song about ragtime, not a ragtime song
  • He wrote one of his favorite melodies, "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody", for a Ziegfeld Follies show
  • He was awarded the Medal of Merit for his 1942 all-soldier show "This is the Army"
  • This composer sued Mad & lost over "Louella Schwartz Describes Her Malady", spoofing his "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody"
  • This composer's "Easter Parade" first turned up in 1933's "As Thousands Cheer"
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) Here at Ellis Island, I found a record of this composer's arrival in 1893, aged 5, under the name Israel Baline
  • Siberian-born Israel Baline was known around Tin Pan Alley by this name