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2 unusual facts about Irving Berlin's White Christmas


Irving Berlin's White Christmas

See Fancy Meeting You Here (1958), How the West Was Won, (1959), and Rendezvous (1969).

Jeffry Denman

In 2004 he originated the role of Phil Davis opposite Brian d'Arcy James, Anastasia Barzee and Meredith Patterson in the World Premiere production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.


Albert Music

Later still J. Albert & Son struck deals with American and British music publishers, purchasing the copyright for songwriters such as Irving Berlin and George Gershwin.

Belford Hendricks

His arrangements for her produced one minor US hit, the R & B-tinged Smooth Operator, written by Otis with Murray Stein and seductively sung by "Sassy", as well as some distinctive takes on older songs, such as My Ideal, I Should Care, Irving Berlin's Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much and particularly attractive versions of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel's Never In A Million Years and Charlie Chaplin's Eternally.

Carl Rose

Her daughter answers, "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." (The phrase "I say it's spinach" entered the vernacular; in 1932, Irving Berlin's popular Broadway revue Face The Music included the song "I Say It's Spinach (And The Hell With It)".

Charles Dillingham

He also produced several musicals and musical reviews during his career, including Watch Your Step, the first musical by Irving Berlin (which featured Vernon and Irene Castle in their Broadway debut).

Clarence Mackay

In 1926, his daughter Ellin married Irving Berlin against her father's wishes and he disinherited her.

Dan Dailey

One of his most notable roles was as Terence Donahue in the 20th Century Fox musical extravaganza There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Johnnie Ray, and Donald O'Connor, whose wife Gwen divorced O'Connor and married Dailey at about the same period.

David Carson Berry

Among his diverse research interests are American popular music of the 1920s-60s, including a focus on Irving Berlin and Jimmy Van Heusen; the theory and aesthetics of music of the mid-eighteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, including a focus on Igor Stravinsky; and Schenkerian theory and its reception history in the U.S.

Dorothy Goetz

Dorothy Goetz (February 5, 1892 – July 17, 1912) was the first wife of the famous songwriter, Irving Berlin.

Edgar Cayce

Cayce's clients included a number of famous people such as Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin.

Edward Jablonski

Edward Jablonski (March 1, 1922 – February 10, 2004) was the author of several biographies on American cultural personalities, such as George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Alan Jay Lerner and Irving Berlin, as well as several books on aviation history.

Finishing the Hat

Additionally Sondheim offers sidebar critiques of some of the most renowned American lyricists of the first half of the 20th century, including Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser, and his own mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II.

Frank Jacobs

Jacobs appeared in the sixth chapter of PBS' comedy documentary, Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America singing "Blue Cross," his own 1961 parody of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies".

French Lick, Indiana

In the early 20th century it also featured casinos attracting celebrities such as boxer Joe Louis, composer Irving Berlin and gangster Al Capone.

George Tobias

In 1939, Tobias signed with Warner Brothers and was cast in supporting roles, many times along with James Cagney, in such movies as Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) as well as with Gary Cooper in Sergeant York (1941) and Irving Berlin, Ronald Reagan, and George Murphy in This Is The Army (1943).

Get Thee Behind Me Satan

"Get Thee Behind Me Satan" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1936 film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Harriet Hilliard.

God Bless Tiny Tim

The songs were written by a variety of composers, most from the early 20th century, and most rather obscure, although "I Got You Babe" was by Sonny Bono, and "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" was by Irving Berlin.

Hawley Ades

He was hired as a staff arranger for Irving Berlin's publishing company, where from 1932 to 1936 he made hundreds of stock arrangements for the leading dance bands of the day, including special arrangements for Raymond Scott and Paul Whiteman.

Henry Busse

Aside from his close relationship with Bing Crosby, he became friends with several notable people of that time, including Ray Bolger, Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Irving Berlin, George Raft, Ginger Rogers, and Edward G. Robinson.

How's Chances?

"Hows Chances?" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1933 musical As Thousands Cheer, where it was introduced by Marilyn Miller.

I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket

"I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1936 film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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This was followed by acquiring the world's leading classical music publishing company Boosey & Hawkes (which includes the catalogues of Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, and Aaron Copland), and Rodgers & Hammerstein, containing the rights to stage and film musicals, and representing hundreds of works by writers including Irving Berlin.

Isn't This a Lovely Day?

"Isn't This a Lovely Day?" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire in the scene where his and Ginger Rogers' characters are caught in a gazebo during a rainstorm.

It's a Lovely Day Today

"It's a Lovely Day Today" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin and was published in 1950.

James G. King

His great-great-granddaughter Ellin Travers Mackay married Irving Berlin.

Let's Face the Music and Dance

"Let's Face the Music and Dance" is a song written in 1936 by Irving Berlin for the film Follow the Fleet, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and featured in a celebrated dance duet with Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Mark Sandrich

However, while all these were hits, it is Holiday Inn in 1942 starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, with music by Irving Berlin, that is most remembered today, for it introduced the song "White Christmas" performed by the crooner Crosby which remained the biggest selling popular song for fifty-two years.

My Defenses Are Down

"My Defenses Are Down" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin.

Operetta

Nevertheless, American operetta largely gave way, by the end of World War I, to musicals, such as the Princess Theatre musicals, and revues, followed by the musicals of Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others.

San Francisco Bound

"San Francisco Bound" is a song by Irving Berlin, published by the Berlin & Snyder Company in 1913.

Slumming on Park Avenue

"Slumming on Park Avenue" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1937 film On the Avenue, where it was introduced by Alice Faye.

Somerville Circle

In its early days, the area included the Raritan Valley Inn, a place that was frequented by Irving Berlin.

The Treasurer's Report

Benchley's disjointed parody so delighted those in attendance that Irving Berlin hired Benchley in 1923 to deliver the Report as part of Berlin's Music Box Revue for $500 a week.

They Say It's Wonderful

"They Say It's Wonderful" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the musical Annie Get Your Gun (1946), where it was introduced by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton.

United States Assay Commission

Such qualifications were not required of later public appointees, who included such prominent figures as Ellin Berlin, wife of songwriter Irving Berlin.

Wynn Bullock

After high school graduation, he moved to New York to pursue a musical career and was hired as a chorus member in Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revue.

You Can Have Him

"You Can Have Him" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1949 musical Miss Liberty, where it was introduced by Allyn McLerie and Mary McCarty.


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