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	Irving Berlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989), born Israel Isidore Beilin (as per [1]), in Tyumen, Russia (or possibly Mogilev, now Belarus), was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history.
		Irving Berlin died of a heart attack in New York City at the age of 101 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irving_Berlin (1742 words)

	Irving Berlin
		Irving Berlin once said that, "a patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts." This philosophy made him one of America's most outstanding writers of patriotic songs from World War I through World War II.
		Berlin was married for only a year to Dorothy Goetz, who died from typhoid contracted while on their honeymoon in Cuba in 1913.
		Berlin's World War I doughboy uniform and many of his original patriotic scores are on display in the Jewish War Veterans Museum in Washington, D.C. Irving Berlin died on September 22, 1989, at the age of 101.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/berlin.html (571 words)

	Embellishments 3: Irving Berlin: Early Songs, 1907-1914
		From time to time Berlin's publishing company brought out folio collections of his songs arranged for keyboard or in simplified settings for voice and piano, but these volumes contain at best a handful of the songs from 1907 to 1914, none in their original form, and they also have become rare items.
		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.
		Berlin's contribution to a given song cannot be untangled from that of his collaborator(s).
	www.areditions.com /rr/embellish/1997_03/berlin.html (797 words)

	Irving Berlin, The Dean of American Songwriters"
		Berlin was elected a member of the Friars club and invited to appear in their annual show for 1911.
		Berlin followed up on the theme with a number of other "rag" titles, some of which were successful, others not.
		Berlin was back and at the top of his form and he seemed to reach an even higher level of skill and creativity not seen before.
	parlorsongs.com /bios/berlin/iberlin.asp (3756 words)

	Irving Berlin
		Irving Berlin has long been one of the most misunderstood figures in American popular music, partly because he lived so long.
		That image did not set well with Berlin's three daughters (who were left in charge of their father's estate), so a literary counter-attack was mounted in the 1990's.
		Part of the problem is that Irving Berlin's life is so full of tension, drama, interesting characters and complex relationships that by the time biographers get it all analyzed, there simply isn't enough time or space left to do justice to the music.
	www.pitt.edu /~atteberr/jazz/articles/IrvingBerlin.html (1319 words)

	Irving Berlin - a potted biography - The Guide to Musical Theatre
		Irving Berlin was born Israel Berlin in May 1888.
		An intuitive business man, Irving Berlin was a co-founder of ASCAP, founder of his own music publishing company, and, with producer Sam Harris, built his own Broadway Theatre, the Music Box.
		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.
	www.nodanw.com /biographies/irving_berlin.htm (433 words)

	Irving Berlin
		Berlin's association with movies began literally at the dawn of the talkie era: his "Blue Skies" was performed by Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer (1927).
		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.
		Irving Berlin's last public appearance was at a star-studded celebration given in honor of his 100th birthday.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P++5711 (443 words)

	Ian Whitcomb Irving Berlin In Hollywood
		Berlin had written a minstrel show story for Al with a theme song that neatly summed up exactly what the two men were all about: entertainment by friendly manipulation of the audience.
		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.
		Berlin went quietly, eventually becoming a recluse holed up in his New York mansion, a troubled voice on the telephone in the wee, wee hours of the morning.
	www.picklehead.com /ian/ian_irving.html (2901 words)

	Irving Berlin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Irving Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		US composer Irving Berlin, singing with soldiers at an army camp, in the 1940s.
		The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Berlin worked as a singer and singing waiter in New York's lower east side from an early age.
		Over a career that spanned six decades, Berlin wrote the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 films, and wrote over 800 songs, many of which became classics.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Irving+Berlin (302 words)

	Irving Berlin : Irving Sings Berlin - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Though Irving Berlin made relatively few commercial recordings, he did sing in public throughout his career, beginning with his days as a singing waiter in the early years of the 20th century and continuing through his appearances in his service show This Is the Army in the 1940s.
		Berlin sometimes reused the melodies -- "The Story of Nell and the Police Gazette" is set to the same tune as the earlier song "Mr.
		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.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1123912,00.html (437 words)

	Berlin Family
		#berl-10:1946 Irving and Ellin with Anya and Harold Arlen in Ciro.
		Tuvia was born in Berlin in 1912 and died in Israel in 1979.
		Several of Irving's siblings were born in Tolochin but family left town after their house was burned down, possibly torched, according to Edward Jablonski (a biographer of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Harold Arlen) in his book "Irving Berlin: American Troubadour" Vol.
	www.eilatgordinlevitan.com /kurenets/k_pages/berlin.html (4672 words)

	As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, by Lawrence Bergreen
		Bergreen argues that these assimilation problems burdened Berlin with a life-long need to fit in, to be an American not just on paper, but at heart--thus his penchant for expressing popular sentiments, whatever they were, and embracing the status quo, whatever it was.
		Berlin was simply more of an artist than other Tin Pan Alley song-pluggers, and Bergreen analyzes his work habits thoroughly, suggesting, in the process, that Thomas Edison was right: genius really is ninety-nine percent perspiration and one percent inspiration.
		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.
	www.pitt.edu /~atteberr/jazz/articles/BERGREEN.html (700 words)

	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.
		Berlin dedicated his life to his work, not having any hobbies or past-times.
		Berlin was also well-known for his patriotism and charity.
	www.parabrisas.com /d_berlini.html (403 words)

	Cole Porter & Irving Berlin: Music Made in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Composer Jerome Kern said, "Irving Berlin has no place in American music, he is American music!" Berlin emigrated to America with his family at the age of five in 1893, from Mogilev, Belarus, and spent his childhood in a tenement on Cherry St. on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
		Irving Berlin's motto was "give the people what they want to hear." He had an uncanny ability to know what that was, and was able to change with the times as the years rolled by and keep up with changes in American taste and style.
		Irving Berlin made no bones about the hard work and hustle that went into his success, but Cole Porter preferred to position himself as an international socialite who happened to write witty songs from time to time.
	www.riverwalk.org /proglist/showpromo/porter_berlin.htm (996 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Irving Berlin on Film (1)
		Irving Berlin was a songwriter for more than 50 years and wrote over 1,500 songs.
		Berlin’s story was typical twenties fluff about a dashing Wall Street financier and a madcap aviatrix aboard a luxury liner, made topical by a plot twist involving the 1929 crash.
		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.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /30/irvingberlin1.html (1627 words)

	TIME.com: That Old Christmas Feeling: Irving America -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Berlin was born in the 19th century, but here it is the 21st, and we can’t put his music to rest.
		In a career that spanned 60 years, Berlin wrote all kinds of songs, about 1,250 of them, which are now collected in "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin" (Knopf, 530 pp., $65), a handsome tome edited by Robert Kimball and Berlin's second daughter Linda Emmet.
		Berlin was in and out of vogue, and he often had so little self-confidence that he'd put a new number in his capacious trunk if anyone around him said it was less than fabulous.
	www.time.com /time/sampler/article/0,8599,189846,00.html (3259 words)

	Music of Irving Berlin, Page 1
		Berlin became well known and even was mentioned in the papers thus becoming better known.
		Berlin's earliest successes came as a lyricist and it was only when a publisher bought one of his songs assuming it included the melody, was Berlin "forced" to write music also.
		In 1913, Irving Berlin was writing his own melodies, as well as his own lyrics and Snyder's firm is reorganized and is called, Waterson, Berlin and Snyder.
	parlorsongs.com /issues/1998-11/nov98feature.asp (2748 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Irving Berlin was born Israel Beilin on May 11, 1888.
		An intuitive business man, Irving Berlin was a co-founder of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), founder of his own music publishing company, and with producer Sam Harris, builder of his own Broadway theatre, The Music Box.
		Irving Berlin's centennial in 1988 was celebrated worldwide, culminating in an all-star tribute at Carnegie Hall benefitting the Hall and ASCAP, subsequently an Emmy Award winning special on CBS, and featuring such varied luminaries of the musical world as Frank Sinatra, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Natalie Cole and Willie Nelson.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=3 (648 words)

	Irving Berlin
		Irving Berlin - Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) songwriter Born: 5/11/1888 Birthplace: Temum, Russia Considered by...
		Irving Berlin Returns to Broadway On New Postage Stamp to be Issued in New York; Irving Berlin Stamp Dedication at Broadway on Broadway(R) 2002 Concert.
		Irving Berlin Returns to Broadway on New Postage Stamp Issued in New York; Commemorative Stamp Dedicated at Broadway on Broadway(R) 2002 Concert.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0807193.html (332 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS: Irving Berlin's Broadway
		Irving Berlin’s Broadway is a major new exhibition, organized and developed by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and making its premiere at SFPALM, showcasing a thrilling range of visuals to tell the story of Berlin’s unique contributions to the Broadway stage and to American popular culture.
		For Berlin it was it similar to numbers he wrote for vaudeville, and he often wrote for the same performers.
		Berlin spent the next three and half years performing and traveling in the show as they took their success across the country, and soon to England, Italy, and the South Pacific.
	www.sfpalm.org /exhibits/Berlin/Berlin.htm (1308 words)

	Dreaming of Irving Berlin in the Season That He Owned - New York Times
		Irving Berlin's New York was a world of Broadway babies, teeming matinees, entrances at the Imperial, exits at the St. James, joyful noise at the New Amsterdam and civic veneration for his great mentor, the showman George M. Cohan.
		Irving Berlin at the piano with Fred Astaire, left, Ann Miller and Peter Lawford in 1948.
		Even Berlin's earning capacity seems remarkably undiminished from the time of his unimaginable fame in that era when the piano was the nation's home-entertainment center.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/12/23/arts/music/23berl.html?ex=1292994000&en=b85a08e16a3a2e50&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (939 words)

	God Bless America (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress
		However, Berlin decided that the solemn tone of "God Bless America" was somewhat out of keeping with the more comedic elements of the show and the song was laid aside.
		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.
		These manuscripts are part of the Irving Berlin Collection, a remarkable collection that includes Berlin's personal papers as well as the records of the Irving Berlin Music Corp. It was presented to the Library of Congress in 1992, by Berlin's daughters, Mary Ellin Barrett, Linda Louise Emmet, and Elizabeth Irving Peters.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/treasures/trm019.html (459 words)

	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.
		Considered one of the great thinkers of the late 20th century, Isaiah Berlin was an expert in political and philosophical ideas and a staunch defender of political and intellectual liberalism.
		In 1986, Keith Haring was invited by the government of West Berlin to paint a section of the Berlin Wall.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9078801?source=RSSOTD (677 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -BERLIN, IRVING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Berlin joined a cast of stars who performed at a special banquet on May 24, 1973, for more than six hundred prisoners of war recently returned from Vietnam.
		Gerald Ford awarded Berlin the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 10, 1977, in recognition of his long career and contribution to the popular culture of the United States.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_009000_berlinirving.htm (531 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Don Freeman -- Irving Berlin brought us blue skies for 8 decades
		If Irving Berlin were alive today, he would be well past his 100th year and, just possibly, he would be adding to the illustrious storehouse of his songs.
		But what a conspicuous rarity it is to encounter the warmly individual, endearing touch that marked music and lyrics from the pen of Irving Berlin, who died Sept. 22, 1989.
		Two of Berlin's most popular songs, "White Christmas" and "God Bless America," were written, stored away and in time pulled out of the composer's trunk.
	signonsandiego.com /news/metro/freeman/20040522-9999-1c22freeman.html (612 words)

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