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On Irving Berlin's 80th birthday, Ed Sullivan staged a televised tribute from his theater on Broadway, and America's most famous songwriter actually SANG, despi ...
Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” ...
Irving Berlin was born on this day in history, May 11, 1888. The composer would go on to write 800 songs, many of them American classics, after starting his career as a boy singing in the streets.
As for Berlin's lyrics, take a close look at this little excerpt from another song (a very obscure song) called "God Bless America" written by Robert Montgomery Bird published over 80 years before ...
God bless America/My home sweet home He folds that nicely into the phrasing and the melody, so it goes by without calling much attention to itself.
Irving Berlin arrived in New York at age 5 as Israel Baline, the son of a cantor fleeing persecution of the Jews of Russia. During World War I, Berlin wrote “God Bless America.” ...
I can recite most words of Birkat Hamazon, a Hebrew blessing can take up to eight minutes to complete, but I can’t sing a single verse of “God Bless America.” Neither can President Donald ...
Who was Irving Berlin? Born in Russia in 1888, Berlin wrote 1,500 songs during a glittering career including God Bless America. Having moved to New York following the anti-Jewish policies of the ...
Who walks away from $10 million? Irving Berlin, the Russian-born composer of “God Bless America,” did, says Bob Greene ...
Singer and radio host Kate Smith first sang “God Bless America,” one of the most beloved of American patriotic songs, on her radio show on Armistice Day in 1938. However, the song was actually ...