Irving Berlin / Michael Freedland.
| Author/creator | Freedland, Michael |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Stein and Day, [1974] |
| Description | 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Say it with music -- Give me your tired, your poor -- I love a piano -- Alexander's ragtime band -- When I lost you -- Oh, how I hate to get up in the morning -- Shaking the blues away -- A pretty girl is like a melody -- The girl that I marry -- I'll be loving you - always -- Easter parade -- Let's face the music -- Now it can be told -- God bless America -- White Christmas -- This is the army, Mr. Jones -- My defenses are down -- Doin' what comes natur'lly -- The hostess with the mostest -- I'm sorry for myself -- Let's take an old-fashioned walk -- And the melody lingers on. |
| Abstract | He created over three thousand songs, yet never learned to play the piano properly. A composer who calls himself a songwriter, whose songs are to him no more than "tunes," he can't read music. When asked once what effect music education might have on his music, he replied, "Ruin it." "Irving Berlin," says Jerome Kern, "has no place in American music - he is American music." And some of America's legendary performers - Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman - would probably concur. Some of the songs, like "Alexander's Ragtime Band," and "Easter Parade," and "White Christmas," have become classics. Thirty Broadway shows and seventeen Hollywood musicals attest to his prodigious talent. This book is the story of this remarkable man's rise to his place as perhaps the greatest weaver of musical spells in American popular music. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 73090699 |
| ISBN | 0812816595 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML410.B499 F74 1974B | ✔ Available | Place Hold |