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[edit]

Songs[edit]

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
Yiddle, 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
The Dance of the Grizzly Bear 1910 lyrics only yes
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
That Society Bear 1912 yes
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
Cohen Owes Me Ninety Seven Dollars 1915
My Bird of Paradise 1915
Si's Been Drinking Cider 1915
When I Leave the World Behind 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
What'll I Do 1924 lyrics only
God Bless America 1938 [1]

Books[edit]

Musical theatre[edit]

References[edit]

  1. According to loc.gov, "Copyright renewed 1965, 1966 by Irving Berlin. Copyright assigned to Winthrop Rutherfurd, Jr., Anne Phipps Sidamon-Eristoff, and Theodore R. Jackson as Trustees of the God Bless America Fund. International copyright secured. All rights reserved."

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This author died in 1989, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 34 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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