Author:Irving Berlin

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Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

Belarusian-born American composer and lyricist, composing over 3,000 songs including "God Bless America" and "White Christmas".

Irving Berlin

Works

Songs

Title	Year	Notes	Cover page	Audio
Marie from Sunny Italy	1907	lyrics only
The Best Of Friends Must Part	1908	lyrics only
Queenie	1908	lyrics only
Dorando	1909	lyrics only
I Didn't Go Home At All	1909	lyrics only
No One Could Do It Like My Father	1909	lyrics only
Sadie Salome (Go Home)	1909
My Wife's Gone To The Country: Hurrah! Hurrah!	1909
Just Like The Rose	1909	lyrics only
Oh What I Know About You	1909	lyrics only
Someone's Waiting For Me (We'll Wait, Wait, Wait)	1909	lyrics only
Do Your Duty Doctor! (Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Doctor)	1909	lyrics only
Good Bye, Girlie, and Remember Me	1909
Wild Cherries (Coony, Spoony Rag)	1909	lyrics only
Oh! Where Is My Wife Tonight?	1909	lyrics only
She Was A Dear Little Girl	1909	lyrics only
Some Little Something About You	1909	lyrics only
If I Thought You Wouldn't Tell	1909	lyrics only
I Wish That You Was My Gal, Molly	1909	lyrics only
Next To Your Mother, Who Do You Love	1909	lyrics only
Stop That Rag (Keep On Playing, Honey)	1909	lyrics only
Yidde, On Your Fiddle, Play Some Ragtime	1909	lyrics only
Christmas-Time Seems Years And Years Away	1909	lyrics only
I Just Came Back To Say Goodbye	1909	lyrics only
That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune	1909
Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon	1910
Dear Mayme, I Love You	1910
Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me	1910	with Ted Snyder, music
Oh How That German Could Love	1910	lyrics only
I Beg Your Pardon Dear Old Broadway	1910
Oh That Beautiful Rag	1910	instrumental, with Ted Snyder
Alexander's Ragtime Band	1911
That Mysterious Rag	1911			yes
Alexander's Bag Pipe Band	1911
Everybody's Doin' It Now	1911
The Ragtime Violin	1911
When You're in Town	1911
When I Lost You	1912			yes
I Want to Be in Dixie	1912	lyrics only
The Ragtime Soldier Man	1912
When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'	1912
Wait Until Your Daddy Comes Home	1912
At the Devil's Ball	1913
Down in Chattanooga	1913
Daddy, Come Home	1913
Somebody's Coming to My House	1913
That International Rag	1913			yes
You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes	1913
Along Came Ruth	1914
Follow the Crowd	1914	lyrics and audio only		yes
He's A Devil in His Own Home Town	1914	needs correction in author notation
I Want to Go Back to Michigan	1914			yes
Stay Down Here Where You Belong	1914	lyrics only
They're on Their Way to Mexico	1914
Araby	1915
My Bird of Paradise	1915
Si's Been Drinking Cider	1915
Alice in Wonderland	1916
From Here to Shanghai	1917
Oh How I Hate to Get up in the Morning	1918			yes
They Were All Out of Step But Jim	1918
A Pretty Girl Is like a Melody	1919
Nobody Knows (and Nobody Seems to Care)	1919
The Hand That Rocked My Cradle Rules My Heart	1919
I Lost My Heart in Dixie Land	1919
I'll See You in C-U-B-A	1920
All by Myself	1921
Say It with Music	1921
God Bless America	1938

Books

• The Popular song (1962) Renewal RE501706
• Let me sing (1963) Renewal RE543983
• Famous song hits for tenor banjo (3 Folio) Renewal R137150, Renewal R137151, Renewal R137152

Musical theatre

• Watch Your Step, 1914 Broadway

• Play a Simple Melody
• They Always Follow Me Around
• When I Discovered You
• The Syncopated Walk

• Stop! Look! Listen!, 1915
• Yip Yip Yaphank, 1918 written while serving in the military and later performed on Broadway

• Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
• God Bless America (cut from the final version)
• We're On Our Way to France (replaced God Bless America)
• You Can't Stay Up On Bevo
• I Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the Y.M.C.A.
• Kitchen Police
• Dream On, Little Soldier Boy
• Mandy

References

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