Gathered together in one volume for the first time: all of the
incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin, whose career and work
are the most important and all-encompassing in the history of
American popular music.
Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as
a singing waiter, but by the time he was nineteen he was publishing
his songs and quickly found fame with "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in
1911. In the extraordinary six decades that followed, Berlin wrote
one popular hit after another: "Blue Skies," "Always," "Cheek to
Cheek," "White Christmas," "God Bless America," "There's No
Business Like Show Business," and many, many more. He also wrote a
number of the classics of musical theater's Golden Age, climaxing
with Annie Get Your Gun. He penned three Astaire and Rogers
films--Top Hat, Carefree, and Follow the Fleet--as well as the
scores of Holiday Inn, Easter Parade, and other movies. The breadth
of his accomplishments is staggering.
Berlin's entire oeuvre is here--the lyrics of more than 1,200
songs (400 of which have never before appeared in print), along
with anecdotal, historical, and musicological commentary and dozens
of photographs.
This beautiful volume is an invaluable contribution to the
understanding and enjoyment of popular music in our time.
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