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Irving Berlin has been nominated for several awards throughout his career. He received a Special Tony Award and was also nominated for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the ...
Once asked about Berlin's place in American music, composer Jerome Kern responded: "Irving Berlin has no place in American music—he is ‘American music.'" ...
There are over 100 pieces of music in Prohibition – from nineteenth century hymns to the Tin Pan Alley songs of Irving Berlin to Jazz greats from Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington ...
Though film director, Mark Sandrich ultimately passed on the song for Astaire and Rogers, Astaire ultimately agreed to star in one of two movie musicals that would include the song. Featuring ...
The Music Box was opened in 1921 by producer Sam H. Harris and composer Irving Berlin to showcase a series of Berlin’s “Music Box Revues.” Heralded on more than one occasion as the “best ...
Barbra Streisand’s 1993 "Back to Broadway” album was set to feature Madonna on the classic show tune “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” — from the Irving Berlin musical “Annie Get your Gun" — but ...