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1. Alexander’s Ragtime Band 2:57 8. Puttin’ On the Ritz 2:20 15. Marie 3:18 21. There’s No Business like Show Al Jolson and Bing Crosby with Harry Richman with Earl Burtnett and Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra; Business 2:32 Morris Stoloff’s Orchestra His L. A. Biltmore Hotel Orchestra Jack Leonard & Chorus, vocal Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern, Howard Keel Decca 40038, mx L 4386-A Brunswick 4677, mx LAE 672 Victor 25523, mx BS 04534-1 & Betty Hutton with Adolph Deutsch & the Recorded 25 March 1947, Los Angeles Recorded 11 December 1929, Los Angeles Recorded 29 January 1937, New York MGM Studio Orchestra 2. A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody 2:28 9. Say It Isn’t So 3:34 16. God Bless America 1:58 MGM 30232, mx 50-S-3000-1 John Steel with orchestra conducted by Rudy Vallee, vocal, and His Connecticut Irving Berlin, with orchestra conducted by Recorded 7 October 1949, Hollywood Joseph Pasternack Yankees Howard Hanson All music & lyrics: Irving Berlin Victor 18588, mx B 23026-5 Columbia 2714-D, mx W 152295-1 ASCAP Cavalcade of Music Concert Transfers & Production: David Lennick Recorded 30 June 1919, Camden Recorded 9 September 1932, New York Recorded 24 September 1940, San Francisco Digital Restoration: Graham Newton 3. What’ll I Do? 3:12 10. How Deep is the Ocean 3:22 17. White Christmas 2:59 Original monochrome photo of Irving Walter Pidgeon; Lester Hodges, piano Ethel Merman with orchestra conducted Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers Berlin from the Tully Potter Collection HMV B 1882, mx Bb 4896-2 by Nathaniel Shilkret and John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra Recorded 15 July 1924, Hayes Victor 24146, mx BS 73708-1 Decca 18429, mx L 3009-B 4. All Alone 2:42 Recorded 29 September 1932 New York Recorded 29 May 1942 Los Angeles John McCormack, with orchestra 11. Easter Parade 3;20 18. Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Also available from Naxos ... conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret Leo Reisman & His Orchestra; Morning 3:08 Victor 1067, mx B 31523-2 Clifton Webb, vocal Mr. Irving Berlin with Supporting Cast and Recorded 17 December 1924, New York Victor 24418, mx BS 78071-2 Soldier Chorus; Orchestra conducted by 5. Always 3:27 Recorded 3 October 1933 New York Milton Rosenstock George Olsen and His Music; Fran Frey, 12. Heat Wave 2:59 Decca 18477, mx 71228AA Bob Rice & Edward Joyce, vocals Ethel Waters with studio orchestra Recorded 28 July 1942 New York Victor 19955, mx BVE 34601-5 Columbia 2826-D, mx W 152521-1 19. I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning 2:58 Recorded 5 February 1926, New York Recorded 10 October 1933 New York Artie Shaw & His Orchestra; Mel Tormé & 6. Remember 3:15 13. Cheek to Cheek 3:16 His Mel-Tones, vocal Cliff Edwards, vocal, and His Hot Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra Musicraft 365, mx 5473-4 Combination Brunswick 7486, mx B 17732-1 Recorded 30 April 1946, Hollywood Pathe 025163, mx 10683 Recorded 26 June 1935 New York 20. You’re Just in Love 2:50 Recorded c. November 1925, New York Mary Martin & Her Son Larry (Hagman) 14. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 8.120827 7. Blue Skies 3:13 2:55 with Mitch Miller’s Orchestra Jack Smith,The Whispering Baritone, Red Norvo & His Orchestra; Columbia 39115, mx CO 44692-1 accompanied by his own piano Mildred Bailey, vocal Recorded 1 December 1950, New York 8.120828 HMV B 2494, mx Bb 11038-2 Brunswick 7813, mx C 1736-1 Recorded 17 June 1927, Hayes Recorded 8 January 1937, Chicago These titles are not for retail sale in the USA
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the opening. Copyright information indicates rendition in the 1954 film catalogue of Berlin’s composers from 1940. All the royalties went to into production. Berlin quickly turned out a SAY IT ISN’T SO he actually wrote it a few weeks earlier than the songs, There’s No Business Like Show Business. the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls score containing many durable hits, including Songs of IRVING BERLIN 28 December première, but it makes a good Cheek to Cheek of America because Berlin ‘refused to make this one, given a zippy reinterpretation by Artie story – and a great song. Berlin spent most of the late 1930s in money off of patriotism’. Shaw and his Orchestra, with Mel Tormé and Original 1919–1950 Recordings Puttin’ On the Ritz Hollywood, writing songs for the charming White Christmas the Mel-Tones providing the vocals. Harry Richman made this a No. 1 hit for Berlin series of films featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Another Berlin classic, this was written in 1940 You’re Just in Love Irving Berlin once wrote a song called “Say It Berlin’s popular series, The Music Box Revues, in 1929. Its lyric about ‘Lenox Avenue’ refers to Rogers. This is from 1935’s Top Hat, often and first heard in the 1942 film, Holiday Inn, The 1950 musical Call Me Madam had a weak With Music” and even though it’s not one of the often thought of as the intimate antidote to the custom of Broadway denizens heading up to considered the classic of the series.The number starring Bing Crosby. But some biographers second act on the road until star Ethel Merman 21 selections on this recording, its title does Ziegfeld’s excess. These reflections of deep Harlem for late-night merriment. Later on, Berlin won Berlin his first of seven Oscar nominations have suggested that the underlying melancholy suggested Berlin write a number for her and co- serve as a kind of mission statement. Berlin personal longing came from the period after would eliminate the topical (and racial) tinge for best song. in the melody can be traced to the fact that star Russell Nype. He fell back on the always did ‘say it with music’ and this selection Berlin’s first wife, Dorothy,tragically died of from the song by changing the locale to ‘Park I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Berlin’s son, Irving Jr, died of crib death in the ‘quodlibet’ style he had used ever since 1914’s of tunes provides some revealing insights into typhoid during their honeymoon in Cuba. Avenue’. This has remained one of Berlin’s most popular early hours of 25 December 1928 and the date “Play A Simple Melody”. Two distinctive tunes would always be haunted with sadness for the are heard separately,then together, usually to the life and career of the man born Isadore Always Say It Isn’t So / How Deep is the Ocean? creations over the decades, being reinterpreted composer. show-stopping effect. The voices here belong Baline in Russia in 1888. This was written in 1925 to socialite Ellin Berlin often suffered from periods of depression by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Rod Stewart. to Mary Martin and her son Larry Hagman. Alexander’s Ragtime Band Mackay,whom Berlin fell in love with despite and inactivity in his life. The early 1930s found But it was first written as a minor number for Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning At the age of 23, Berlin had his first big hit. He her father’s objections. The elder Mackay sent him in such a state until crooner Rudy Vallee Dick Powell and Alice Faye in a nearly forgotten Berlin originally wrote and performed this in There’s No Business like Show Business claims the melody ‘came to him out of the air’in his daughter to Europe to get her away from made “Say It Isn’t So” a surprise hit in 1932, and 1937 film called On the Avenue. the 1918 soldiers’ revue, Yip Yap Yaphank.He Although now known as the anthem of the admits this is how he truly felt about army life. theatrical profession, the song as first written 1911 and he wrote it first as an instrumental. Berlin, but love triumphed and the two finally Ethel Merman followed soon after with “How Marie The song acquired even greater fame when he for Annie Get Your Gun was intended as a mere Then he set words to it, vaudeville star Emma married. He gave her this song as a wedding Deep is the Ocean?” This was initially penned by Berlin as the theme revived it in the 1942 military revue This Is The scene-changing number. It also nearly got lost Carus launched it, numerous other entertainers present. for a 1928 Vilma Bankey film called The Easter Parade / Heat Wave Army, and performed it again, wearing his forever, when Berlin thought that director Joshua picked it up and it sold over 2,000,000 copies. Remember Awakening. It did well enough then, but it Both of these songs are from the smash 1933 uniform from World War I. Logan wasn’t enthusiastic enough about it and This 1947 version features Al Jolson & Bing Also from 1925, this number initially failed to wasn’t until Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra Broadway revue, As Thousands Cheer, based on asked his secretary to throw his manuscript Crosby. catch on, but Berlin’s song-plugger, partner and recorded it in 1937 that it really took off and I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning the various sections of a newspaper. “Easter out. She didn’t listen, the song survived and A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody friend Max Winslow kept circulating the piece. Parade” was for the Sunday rotogravure color reached No. 1 on the charts. The 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun was the greatest stage hit in Berlin’s career, but he here’s how it sounded in the 1950 film version This was written during the tryout of the 1919 By the end of the year, three separate recordings picture section and depicted the annual ‘walk of God Bless America wasn’t even supposed to have been the of the show,with Betty Hutton and the cast. Ziegfeld Follies. The ‘great glorifier’ wanted a of it were all on the charts simultaneously, fashion’ on Fifth Avenue each Easter Sunday. The Berlin wrote an early version of this song in composer. Jerome Kern was originally slated, song to link five interludes where his finest including this one by ‘Cliff Edwards and His Hot tune was rescued from a 1917 effort by Berlin 1918 after his Army service, but it seemed too but he died of a stroke before the show went Richard Ouzounian showgirls appeared in stunning costumes, each Combination’. called “Smile and Show Your Dimple”. “Heat earnest to him at the time. But in 1938, with to a piece of classical music. Berlin penned this Blue Skies Wave”, of course, was Berlin’s response to the the threat of World War II becoming imminent, as a throwaway tune, but it endured and became In 1926, vaudevillian Belle Baker was starring in weather report. A sizzling saga in which Ethel Berlin created a new set of lyrics and, thanks to the anthem of the Follies. a show called Betsy, but unhappy about the Waters attributed a major tropical weather Kate Smith’s tireless performing of it, the What’ll I Do? / All Alone songs Rodgers and Hart had written for her. She condition due to a saucy lady who ‘started a inspiring number became one of his most Both of these songs are from 1924 and were turned to Berlin for help and Baker herself heat wave by making her seat wave’. Marilyn lasting hits. The version on this recording used in Broadway and touring editions of claims he penned the tune the very night before Monroe also made a lasting impression with her features Berlin himself in a concert of ASCAP 2 8.120829 3 8.120829 4 8.120829 120829bk Berlin Songs 7/3/06 5:33 PM Page 1
the opening. Copyright information indicates rendition in the 1954 film catalogue of Berlin’s composers from 1940. All the royalties went to into production. Berlin quickly turned out a SAY IT ISN’T SO he actually wrote it a few weeks earlier than the songs, There’s No Business Like Show Business. the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls score containing many durable hits, including Songs of IRVING BERLIN 28 December première, but it makes a good Cheek to Cheek of America because Berlin ‘refused to make this one, given a zippy reinterpretation by Artie story – and a great song. Berlin spent most of the late 1930s in money off of patriotism’. Shaw and his Orchestra, with Mel Tormé and Original 1919–1950 Recordings Puttin’ On the Ritz Hollywood, writing songs for the charming White Christmas the Mel-Tones providing the vocals. Harry Richman made this a No. 1 hit for Berlin series of films featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Another Berlin classic, this was written in 1940 You’re Just in Love Irving Berlin once wrote a song called “Say It Berlin’s popular series, The Music Box Revues, in 1929. Its lyric about ‘Lenox Avenue’ refers to Rogers. This is from 1935’s Top Hat, often and first heard in the 1942 film, Holiday Inn, The 1950 musical Call Me Madam had a weak With Music” and even though it’s not one of the often thought of as the intimate antidote to the custom of Broadway denizens heading up to considered the classic of the series.The number starring Bing Crosby. But some biographers second act on the road until star Ethel Merman 21 selections on this recording, its title does Ziegfeld’s excess. These reflections of deep Harlem for late-night merriment. Later on, Berlin won Berlin his first of seven Oscar nominations have suggested that the underlying melancholy suggested Berlin write a number for her and co- serve as a kind of mission statement. Berlin personal longing came from the period after would eliminate the topical (and racial) tinge for best song. in the melody can be traced to the fact that star Russell Nype. He fell back on the always did ‘say it with music’ and this selection Berlin’s first wife, Dorothy,tragically died of from the song by changing the locale to ‘Park I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Berlin’s son, Irving Jr, died of crib death in the ‘quodlibet’ style he had used ever since 1914’s of tunes provides some revealing insights into typhoid during their honeymoon in Cuba. Avenue’. This has remained one of Berlin’s most popular early hours of 25 December 1928 and the date “Play A Simple Melody”. Two distinctive tunes would always be haunted with sadness for the are heard separately,then together, usually to the life and career of the man born Isadore Always Say It Isn’t So / How Deep is the Ocean? creations over the decades, being reinterpreted composer. show-stopping effect. The voices here belong Baline in Russia in 1888. This was written in 1925 to socialite Ellin Berlin often suffered from periods of depression by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Rod Stewart. to Mary Martin and her son Larry Hagman. Alexander’s Ragtime Band Mackay,whom Berlin fell in love with despite and inactivity in his life. The early 1930s found But it was first written as a minor number for Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning At the age of 23, Berlin had his first big hit. He her father’s objections. The elder Mackay sent him in such a state until crooner Rudy Vallee Dick Powell and Alice Faye in a nearly forgotten Berlin originally wrote and performed this in There’s No Business like Show Business claims the melody ‘came to him out of the air’in his daughter to Europe to get her away from made “Say It Isn’t So” a surprise hit in 1932, and 1937 film called On the Avenue. the 1918 soldiers’ revue, Yip Yap Yaphank.He Although now known as the anthem of the admits this is how he truly felt about army life. theatrical profession, the song as first written 1911 and he wrote it first as an instrumental. Berlin, but love triumphed and the two finally Ethel Merman followed soon after with “How Marie The song acquired even greater fame when he for Annie Get Your Gun was intended as a mere Then he set words to it, vaudeville star Emma married. He gave her this song as a wedding Deep is the Ocean?” This was initially penned by Berlin as the theme revived it in the 1942 military revue This Is The scene-changing number. It also nearly got lost Carus launched it, numerous other entertainers present. for a 1928 Vilma Bankey film called The Easter Parade / Heat Wave Army, and performed it again, wearing his forever, when Berlin thought that director Joshua picked it up and it sold over 2,000,000 copies. Remember Awakening. It did well enough then, but it Both of these songs are from the smash 1933 uniform from World War I. Logan wasn’t enthusiastic enough about it and This 1947 version features Al Jolson & Bing Also from 1925, this number initially failed to wasn’t until Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra Broadway revue, As Thousands Cheer, based on asked his secretary to throw his manuscript Crosby. catch on, but Berlin’s song-plugger, partner and recorded it in 1937 that it really took off and I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning the various sections of a newspaper. “Easter out. She didn’t listen, the song survived and A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody friend Max Winslow kept circulating the piece. Parade” was for the Sunday rotogravure color reached No. 1 on the charts. The 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun was the greatest stage hit in Berlin’s career, but he here’s how it sounded in the 1950 film version This was written during the tryout of the 1919 By the end of the year, three separate recordings picture section and depicted the annual ‘walk of God Bless America wasn’t even supposed to have been the of the show,with Betty Hutton and the cast. Ziegfeld Follies. The ‘great glorifier’ wanted a of it were all on the charts simultaneously, fashion’ on Fifth Avenue each Easter Sunday. The Berlin wrote an early version of this song in composer. Jerome Kern was originally slated, song to link five interludes where his finest including this one by ‘Cliff Edwards and His Hot tune was rescued from a 1917 effort by Berlin 1918 after his Army service, but it seemed too but he died of a stroke before the show went Richard Ouzounian showgirls appeared in stunning costumes, each Combination’. called “Smile and Show Your Dimple”. “Heat earnest to him at the time. But in 1938, with to a piece of classical music. Berlin penned this Blue Skies Wave”, of course, was Berlin’s response to the the threat of World War II becoming imminent, as a throwaway tune, but it endured and became In 1926, vaudevillian Belle Baker was starring in weather report. A sizzling saga in which Ethel Berlin created a new set of lyrics and, thanks to the anthem of the Follies. a show called Betsy, but unhappy about the Waters attributed a major tropical weather Kate Smith’s tireless performing of it, the What’ll I Do? / All Alone songs Rodgers and Hart had written for her. She condition due to a saucy lady who ‘started a inspiring number became one of his most Both of these songs are from 1924 and were turned to Berlin for help and Baker herself heat wave by making her seat wave’. Marilyn lasting hits. The version on this recording used in Broadway and touring editions of claims he penned the tune the very night before Monroe also made a lasting impression with her features Berlin himself in a concert of ASCAP 2 8.120829 3 8.120829 4 8.120829 120829bk Berlin Songs 7/3/06 5:33 PM Page 1
the opening. Copyright information indicates rendition in the 1954 film catalogue of Berlin’s composers from 1940. All the royalties went to into production. Berlin quickly turned out a SAY IT ISN’T SO he actually wrote it a few weeks earlier than the songs, There’s No Business Like Show Business. the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls score containing many durable hits, including Songs of IRVING BERLIN 28 December première, but it makes a good Cheek to Cheek of America because Berlin ‘refused to make this one, given a zippy reinterpretation by Artie story – and a great song. Berlin spent most of the late 1930s in money off of patriotism’. Shaw and his Orchestra, with Mel Tormé and Original 1919–1950 Recordings Puttin’ On the Ritz Hollywood, writing songs for the charming White Christmas the Mel-Tones providing the vocals. Harry Richman made this a No. 1 hit for Berlin series of films featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Another Berlin classic, this was written in 1940 You’re Just in Love Irving Berlin once wrote a song called “Say It Berlin’s popular series, The Music Box Revues, in 1929. Its lyric about ‘Lenox Avenue’ refers to Rogers. This is from 1935’s Top Hat, often and first heard in the 1942 film, Holiday Inn, The 1950 musical Call Me Madam had a weak With Music” and even though it’s not one of the often thought of as the intimate antidote to the custom of Broadway denizens heading up to considered the classic of the series.The number starring Bing Crosby. But some biographers second act on the road until star Ethel Merman 21 selections on this recording, its title does Ziegfeld’s excess. These reflections of deep Harlem for late-night merriment. Later on, Berlin won Berlin his first of seven Oscar nominations have suggested that the underlying melancholy suggested Berlin write a number for her and co- serve as a kind of mission statement. Berlin personal longing came from the period after would eliminate the topical (and racial) tinge for best song. in the melody can be traced to the fact that star Russell Nype. He fell back on the always did ‘say it with music’ and this selection Berlin’s first wife, Dorothy,tragically died of from the song by changing the locale to ‘Park I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Berlin’s son, Irving Jr, died of crib death in the ‘quodlibet’ style he had used ever since 1914’s of tunes provides some revealing insights into typhoid during their honeymoon in Cuba. Avenue’. This has remained one of Berlin’s most popular early hours of 25 December 1928 and the date “Play A Simple Melody”. Two distinctive tunes would always be haunted with sadness for the are heard separately,then together, usually to the life and career of the man born Isadore Always Say It Isn’t So / How Deep is the Ocean? creations over the decades, being reinterpreted composer. show-stopping effect. The voices here belong Baline in Russia in 1888. This was written in 1925 to socialite Ellin Berlin often suffered from periods of depression by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Rod Stewart. to Mary Martin and her son Larry Hagman. Alexander’s Ragtime Band Mackay,whom Berlin fell in love with despite and inactivity in his life. The early 1930s found But it was first written as a minor number for Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning At the age of 23, Berlin had his first big hit. He her father’s objections. The elder Mackay sent him in such a state until crooner Rudy Vallee Dick Powell and Alice Faye in a nearly forgotten Berlin originally wrote and performed this in There’s No Business like Show Business claims the melody ‘came to him out of the air’in his daughter to Europe to get her away from made “Say It Isn’t So” a surprise hit in 1932, and 1937 film called On the Avenue. the 1918 soldiers’ revue, Yip Yap Yaphank.He Although now known as the anthem of the admits this is how he truly felt about army life. theatrical profession, the song as first written 1911 and he wrote it first as an instrumental. Berlin, but love triumphed and the two finally Ethel Merman followed soon after with “How Marie The song acquired even greater fame when he for Annie Get Your Gun was intended as a mere Then he set words to it, vaudeville star Emma married. He gave her this song as a wedding Deep is the Ocean?” This was initially penned by Berlin as the theme revived it in the 1942 military revue This Is The scene-changing number. It also nearly got lost Carus launched it, numerous other entertainers present. for a 1928 Vilma Bankey film called The Easter Parade / Heat Wave Army, and performed it again, wearing his forever, when Berlin thought that director Joshua picked it up and it sold over 2,000,000 copies. Remember Awakening. It did well enough then, but it Both of these songs are from the smash 1933 uniform from World War I. Logan wasn’t enthusiastic enough about it and This 1947 version features Al Jolson & Bing Also from 1925, this number initially failed to wasn’t until Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra Broadway revue, As Thousands Cheer, based on asked his secretary to throw his manuscript Crosby. catch on, but Berlin’s song-plugger, partner and recorded it in 1937 that it really took off and I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning the various sections of a newspaper. “Easter out. She didn’t listen, the song survived and A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody friend Max Winslow kept circulating the piece. Parade” was for the Sunday rotogravure color reached No. 1 on the charts. The 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun was the greatest stage hit in Berlin’s career, but he here’s how it sounded in the 1950 film version This was written during the tryout of the 1919 By the end of the year, three separate recordings picture section and depicted the annual ‘walk of God Bless America wasn’t even supposed to have been the of the show,with Betty Hutton and the cast. Ziegfeld Follies. The ‘great glorifier’ wanted a of it were all on the charts simultaneously, fashion’ on Fifth Avenue each Easter Sunday. The Berlin wrote an early version of this song in composer. Jerome Kern was originally slated, song to link five interludes where his finest including this one by ‘Cliff Edwards and His Hot tune was rescued from a 1917 effort by Berlin 1918 after his Army service, but it seemed too but he died of a stroke before the show went Richard Ouzounian showgirls appeared in stunning costumes, each Combination’. called “Smile and Show Your Dimple”. “Heat earnest to him at the time. But in 1938, with to a piece of classical music. Berlin penned this Blue Skies Wave”, of course, was Berlin’s response to the the threat of World War II becoming imminent, as a throwaway tune, but it endured and became In 1926, vaudevillian Belle Baker was starring in weather report. A sizzling saga in which Ethel Berlin created a new set of lyrics and, thanks to the anthem of the Follies. a show called Betsy, but unhappy about the Waters attributed a major tropical weather Kate Smith’s tireless performing of it, the What’ll I Do? / All Alone songs Rodgers and Hart had written for her. She condition due to a saucy lady who ‘started a inspiring number became one of his most Both of these songs are from 1924 and were turned to Berlin for help and Baker herself heat wave by making her seat wave’. Marilyn lasting hits. The version on this recording used in Broadway and touring editions of claims he penned the tune the very night before Monroe also made a lasting impression with her features Berlin himself in a concert of ASCAP 2 8.120829 3 8.120829 4 8.120829 120829bk Berlin Songs 7/3/06 5:33 PM Page 2
1. Alexander’s Ragtime Band 2:57 8. Puttin’ On the Ritz 2:20 15. Marie 3:18 21. There’s No Business like Show Al Jolson and Bing Crosby with Harry Richman with Earl Burtnett and Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra; Business 2:32 Morris Stoloff’s Orchestra His L. A. Biltmore Hotel Orchestra Jack Leonard & Chorus, vocal Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern, Howard Keel Decca 40038, mx L 4386-A Brunswick 4677, mx LAE 672 Victor 25523, mx BS 04534-1 & Betty Hutton with Adolph Deutsch & the Recorded 25 March 1947, Los Angeles Recorded 11 December 1929, Los Angeles Recorded 29 January 1937, New York MGM Studio Orchestra 2. A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody 2:28 9. Say It Isn’t So 3:34 16. God Bless America 1:58 MGM 30232, mx 50-S-3000-1 John Steel with orchestra conducted by Rudy Vallee, vocal, and His Connecticut Irving Berlin, with orchestra conducted by Recorded 7 October 1949, Hollywood Joseph Pasternack Yankees Howard Hanson All music & lyrics: Irving Berlin Victor 18588, mx B 23026-5 Columbia 2714-D, mx W 152295-1 ASCAP Cavalcade of Music Concert Transfers & Production: David Lennick Recorded 30 June 1919, Camden Recorded 9 September 1932, New York Recorded 24 September 1940, San Francisco Digital Restoration: Graham Newton 3. What’ll I Do? 3:12 10. How Deep is the Ocean 3:22 17. White Christmas 2:59 Original monochrome photo of Irving Walter Pidgeon; Lester Hodges, piano Ethel Merman with orchestra conducted Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers Berlin from the Tully Potter Collection HMV B 1882, mx Bb 4896-2 by Nathaniel Shilkret and John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra Recorded 15 July 1924, Hayes Victor 24146, mx BS 73708-1 Decca 18429, mx L 3009-B 4. All Alone 2:42 Recorded 29 September 1932 New York Recorded 29 May 1942 Los Angeles John McCormack, with orchestra 11. Easter Parade 3;20 18. Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Also available from Naxos ... conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret Leo Reisman & His Orchestra; Morning 3:08 Victor 1067, mx B 31523-2 Clifton Webb, vocal Mr. Irving Berlin with Supporting Cast and Recorded 17 December 1924, New York Victor 24418, mx BS 78071-2 Soldier Chorus; Orchestra conducted by 5. Always 3:27 Recorded 3 October 1933 New York Milton Rosenstock George Olsen and His Music; Fran Frey, 12. Heat Wave 2:59 Decca 18477, mx 71228AA Bob Rice & Edward Joyce, vocals Ethel Waters with studio orchestra Recorded 28 July 1942 New York Victor 19955, mx BVE 34601-5 Columbia 2826-D, mx W 152521-1 19. I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning 2:58 Recorded 5 February 1926, New York Recorded 10 October 1933 New York Artie Shaw & His Orchestra; Mel Tormé & 6. Remember 3:15 13. Cheek to Cheek 3:16 His Mel-Tones, vocal Cliff Edwards, vocal, and His Hot Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra Musicraft 365, mx 5473-4 Combination Brunswick 7486, mx B 17732-1 Recorded 30 April 1946, Hollywood Pathe 025163, mx 10683 Recorded 26 June 1935 New York 20. You’re Just in Love 2:50 Recorded c. November 1925, New York Mary Martin & Her Son Larry (Hagman) 14. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 8.120827 7. Blue Skies 3:13 2:55 with Mitch Miller’s Orchestra Jack Smith,The Whispering Baritone, Red Norvo & His Orchestra; Columbia 39115, mx CO 44692-1 accompanied by his own piano Mildred Bailey, vocal Recorded 1 December 1950, New York 8.120828 HMV B 2494, mx Bb 11038-2 Brunswick 7813, mx C 1736-1 Recorded 17 June 1927, Hayes Recorded 8 January 1937, Chicago These titles are not for retail sale in the USA
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1. Alexander’s Ragtime Band 2:57 8. Puttin’ On the Ritz 2:20 15. Marie 3:18 21. There’s No Business like Show Al Jolson and Bing Crosby with Harry Richman with Earl Burtnett and Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra; Business 2:32 Morris Stoloff’s Orchestra His L. A. Biltmore Hotel Orchestra Jack Leonard & Chorus, vocal Keenan Wynn, Louis Calhern, Howard Keel Decca 40038, mx L 4386-A Brunswick 4677, mx LAE 672 Victor 25523, mx BS 04534-1 & Betty Hutton with Adolph Deutsch & the Recorded 25 March 1947, Los Angeles Recorded 11 December 1929, Los Angeles Recorded 29 January 1937, New York MGM Studio Orchestra 2. A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody 2:28 9. Say It Isn’t So 3:34 16. God Bless America 1:58 MGM 30232, mx 50-S-3000-1 John Steel with orchestra conducted by Rudy Vallee, vocal, and His Connecticut Irving Berlin, with orchestra conducted by Recorded 7 October 1949, Hollywood Joseph Pasternack Yankees Howard Hanson All music & lyrics: Irving Berlin Victor 18588, mx B 23026-5 Columbia 2714-D, mx W 152295-1 ASCAP Cavalcade of Music Concert Transfers & Production: David Lennick Recorded 30 June 1919, Camden Recorded 9 September 1932, New York Recorded 24 September 1940, San Francisco Digital Restoration: Graham Newton 3. What’ll I Do? 3:12 10. How Deep is the Ocean 3:22 17. White Christmas 2:59 Original monochrome photo of Irving Walter Pidgeon; Lester Hodges, piano Ethel Merman with orchestra conducted Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers Berlin from the Tully Potter Collection HMV B 1882, mx Bb 4896-2 by Nathaniel Shilkret and John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra Recorded 15 July 1924, Hayes Victor 24146, mx BS 73708-1 Decca 18429, mx L 3009-B 4. All Alone 2:42 Recorded 29 September 1932 New York Recorded 29 May 1942 Los Angeles John McCormack, with orchestra 11. Easter Parade 3;20 18. Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Also available from Naxos ... conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret Leo Reisman & His Orchestra; Morning 3:08 Victor 1067, mx B 31523-2 Clifton Webb, vocal Mr. Irving Berlin with Supporting Cast and Recorded 17 December 1924, New York Victor 24418, mx BS 78071-2 Soldier Chorus; Orchestra conducted by 5. Always 3:27 Recorded 3 October 1933 New York Milton Rosenstock George Olsen and His Music; Fran Frey, 12. Heat Wave 2:59 Decca 18477, mx 71228AA Bob Rice & Edward Joyce, vocals Ethel Waters with studio orchestra Recorded 28 July 1942 New York Victor 19955, mx BVE 34601-5 Columbia 2826-D, mx W 152521-1 19. I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning 2:58 Recorded 5 February 1926, New York Recorded 10 October 1933 New York Artie Shaw & His Orchestra; Mel Tormé & 6. Remember 3:15 13. Cheek to Cheek 3:16 His Mel-Tones, vocal Cliff Edwards, vocal, and His Hot Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra Musicraft 365, mx 5473-4 Combination Brunswick 7486, mx B 17732-1 Recorded 30 April 1946, Hollywood Pathe 025163, mx 10683 Recorded 26 June 1935 New York 20. You’re Just in Love 2:50 Recorded c. November 1925, New York Mary Martin & Her Son Larry (Hagman) 14. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 8.120827 7. Blue Skies 3:13 2:55 with Mitch Miller’s Orchestra Jack Smith,The Whispering Baritone, Red Norvo & His Orchestra; Columbia 39115, mx CO 44692-1 accompanied by his own piano Mildred Bailey, vocal Recorded 1 December 1950, New York 8.120828 HMV B 2494, mx Bb 11038-2 Brunswick 7813, mx C 1736-1 Recorded 17 June 1927, Hayes Recorded 8 January 1937, Chicago These titles are not for retail sale in the USA
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