Name:
Berlin, Irving
Born:
May 11, 1888 (Mohilev, Russia)
Died:
Sep 22, 1989 (NYC)
Note:
Born "Yisroel/ Israel/ Isadore Baline" / See Gottlieb 236

Songs written or composed

Alexander's Ragtime Band — אַלעקסאַנדערס ראַגטים באַנד

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Composer:
Berlin, Irving

Recordings

On album:
A-027(b) (Bruce Adler An Evening At The Yiddish Theatre -Act II-)
Track ID:
26503
Author:
Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Artist:
Adler, Bruce
Artist:
Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
First line:
Oy her zikh tsi (2), tsu aleksander mit zayn polk,
First line (Yiddish):
אָױ, הער זיך צי (2), צו אַלעקסאַנדער מיט זײַן פּאָלק,
Track comment:
with Der Rebe Elimelekh
Language:
Yiddish
On album:
R-016(g) (A..Caravan..Stars Featuring Seymour Rechtzeit & Molly Picon)
Track ID:
23639
Vocal:
Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
Yiddish Adaption:
Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
Vocal:
Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Piano:
Ellstein, Abe — עלשטײַן, אײב
First line:
Kumt ale, her, kumt ale, her, s'iz alexanders ragtime band,
First line:
קומט אלע, הער, קומט אלע, הער, ס'איז אַלעקסאַנדערס ראַגטים באַנד,
Track comment:
with the Barry Sisters - fragment of "I Love A Parade"
Language:
Yiddish/English

What Am I Gonna Do

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Vaudeville/Pop
Subject:
Friars' Club/Speech/Honor/Thanks

Recording

On album:
F-045(a)2 (From Avenue A To The Great White Way/ Yiddish & American Popular Songs/ Disk 2)
Track ID:
28535
Vocal:
Berlin, Irving
First line:
Friar Abbot, brother friars, ladies and gents, don't expect too much of me,
Track comment:
Originally recorded Jan 24, 1914, Columbia Personal Recording/ unknown pianist
Language:
English
Style:
Humorous/Rag
Length:
03:26

Blue Skies

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Pop
Subject:
Hope/Optimism/Sky/Sun
Additional song notes:
See Gottlieb, p. 44 for relationship of melody to "Der Rebe Hot Geheysn Freylekh Zayn"

Recording

On album:
G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)
Track ID:
31660
Orchestra Leader:
Shaw, Artie
Artist:
Artie Shaw Orchestra
Style:
Instrumental/Swing
Length:
1:32

The Song Is Ended

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Pop
Subject:
Song/Melody/Romance
Additional song notes:
See Gottlieb, p 79-80 for relationship to "Der Morgn Shtern"

Recording

On album:
G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)
Track ID:
31672
Vocal:
Kanawa, Kiri Te
Artist:
Abbey Road Ensemble
Arranger/Conductor:
Tunick, Jonathan
First line:
The song is ended, but the melody lingers on,
Language:
English
Style:
Cabaret/Orchestral Accompaniment
Length:
1:26

Yiddle On Your Fiddle Play Some Ragtime

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Novelty/Vaudeville/Dialect/Humorous
Subject:
Music/Song/Ragtime/Wedding/Fiddle/Food/
Additional song notes:
See Heskes Page 50
Related information in folder 577:
Document type:
Text
Author:
Irving Berlin
Publisher:
Internet
Comments:
Lyrics to the song "Yiddel On Your Fiddle Play Some Ragtime".

Recording

On album:
G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)
Track ID:
31677
Vocal:
Whelen, Albert
First line:
Everyvon vas singing dancing shpringing at the vedding…
Language:
Yinglish
Style:
Accented/Orchestral Accompaniment
Length:
1:15

Steppin Out With My Baby

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Film Sountrack
Subject:
Dance/Celebration/Date
Additional song notes:
From the film "Easter Parade". See Gottlieb 164 for relationship between "Haynt Iz Purim", "Steppin Out With My Baby" and "Puttin On The Ritz"

Recording

On album:
G-057(c) (Funny It Doesn't Sound Jewish/ Compilation by Jack Gottlieb accompaning book with same title.)
Track ID:
31696
First line:
I'm steppin out with ma baby, can't go wrong, cause I'm right,
Language:
English
Style:
Swing/Dance/Orchestral Accompaniment
Length:
0:46

Cohen Owes Me Ninety Seven Dollars

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Vaudeville/Novelty/Humorous/Race
Subject:
Debt/Collection/Sickness/Recovery/Merchant/Money/Chicanery
Additional song notes:
Referred to in Gottlieb p. 197

Recording

On album:
J-035(a) (Jewface)
Track ID:
33539
Vocal:
Bernard, Rhoda
First line:
Old man Rosenthal lay sick in bed, soon the doctor came around and said...
Language:
English
Style:
Vaudeville/Dialect
Length:
3:14

The Yiddishe Professor

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Vaudeville/Novelty/Humorous/Race
Subject:
Travel/Performer/Pianist/Skill
Additional song notes:
Referred to in Gottlieb p. 162

Recording

On album:
J-035(a) (Jewface)
Track ID:
33551
Vocal:
Berlin, Irving
First line:
Abie Cohen, Abie Cohen, he vent to Paris and Germany, and learned how to play…
Language:
English
Style:
Vaudeville/Dialect
Length:
4:06

Let Me Sing, and I'm Happy

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Additional song notes:
From " From "Mammy"

Recording

On album:
J-007(B) (The Best of Al Jolson)
Track ID:
35331
Vocal:
Jolson, Al
Language:
English
Length:
2:35

Ale Menshn Tuen Dos — אַלע מענשן טוען דאָס

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Novelty/Vaudeville
Subject:
Dance

Recording

On album:
M-047(d) (Cantors Klezmorim and Crooners: 1905-1953 / Classic Yiddish 78s from the Mayrent Collection B)
Track ID:
35601
Vocal:
Paskel, Simon — פּאַסקאַל, סײַמאָן
Yiddish Adaptation:
Lillian, Isadore — ליליאַן, איסאַדאָר
First line:
Ale menshn oyf der velt, hobn...vos der andere tuen,
First line (Yiddish):
אַלע מענשן אויף דער וועלט האָבן...וואָס דער אַנדערע טוען,
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Pop
Length:
3:15

Sadie Salome Go Home

Author:
Berlin, Irving
Author:
Leslie, Edgar
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Novelty/Pop/Humorous/Vaudville/
Subject:
Salome/Scandal/Nudity/Outrage/Clothes/Display/Stage
Origin:
Ephemera 1164
Music:
Sheet Music 1145
Additional song notes:
See Ephemera folder 1164 for background Information
Related information in folder 1164:
Comments:
1. 3/24/2016 Text of Song with background info from internet entered in ephemera on March 24,2016
Sheet music:
Folder:
1267
Series:
4
Arranged for:
Voice/Piano
Texts:
English
Publisher:
American Musicological Society
Provenance:
Purchase, April 2012 - via internet
First line:
Sadie Cohen left her happy home to become an actress lady,

Recordings

On album:
F-071(a) (Paul Favor/ Sadie Salome Go Home)
Track ID:
36843
Vocal:
Favor, Edward M.
First line:
Sadie Cohen left her happy home, to become an actress lady, on the stage she…
Language:
English
Style:
Novelty/Humorous/Vaudville/
On album:
C-049(b) (Casco Bay Tummlers / Jumpin' Jewpiter!)
Track ID:
41766
Artist:
Casco Bay Tummlers
Flute, Guitar:
Dimow, Carl
gb @ C Clarinets:
Mills, Danny
Bass:
Goell, Julie
Vocal/Accordion:
Hoffman, Nancy 3
Drums/Xylophone:
Porterfield, Hayes
First line:
Sadie Cohen left her happy home to become an actress lady, on the stage she soon
Language:
English
Style:
Humorous/Dialect/Novelty/Vaudeville
Length:
3:09

Khaveyrim Khazeyrim — חברים חזירים

Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Genre:
Jazz/Theater/Pop/Novelty
Subject:
Tsar/Tsarina/Birth/Pigs/Immigration/America
Origin:
Peppler 3 123
Transliteration:
Ephemera 1485
Translation:
Ephemera 1485
Additional song notes:
Set To Irving Berlin's "In My Harem"

Recording

On album:
P-068(g) (Der East Side Fun Amol/ Jane Peppler & Friends)
Track ID:
41499
Vocal:
Peppler, Jane
Piano:
Enoch, Aviva
First line:
Es kokht, es rasht di velt yetst mitn tsar, vayl zayn vayb, di tsarine iz …
First line (Yiddish):
עס קאָכט, עס ראַשט די וועלט יעצט מיט דער צאַר, ווײַל זײַן ווײַב, די צאַרינע...
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Jazz
Length:
2:46

Other tracks with this artist

Sittin' In The Shvitz (Parody)

On album:
xR-029(c)
Track ID:
14537
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Artist:
Rechnitzer Rejects
First line:
If you're blue when you put on, what you used to you ...
Track comment:
Parody titled "Sittin' In The Shvitz"

Putting On The Ritz (Parody, Eng)

On album:
R-029(c) (The Even More Complete Collection of.... Rechnitzer Rejects)
Track ID:
12516
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Artist:
Rechnitzer Rejects
First line:
If you're blue when you put on, what you used to you ...
Track comment:
Parody titled "Sittin' In The Shvitz"

The Grizzley Bear (Eng)

On album:
T-016(b) (Sophie Tucker Her Latest And Greatest Spicy Saucy Songs)
Track ID:
21027
Author/Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Artist:
Tucker, Sophie
Narrator:
Adams, Mason
Piano:
Shapiro, Ted
First line:
Out in San Francisco where the weather's fair, they got a...
Track comment:
From "My Dream" Sophie Tucker's narrative of her life story
Language:
English

I Love A Piano (Eng)

On album:
N-018(a) (Nicole Neiman From Europe With Love)
Track ID:
21392
Author/Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Artist:
Neiman, Nicole
Piano/Musical Director:
Ross, Brad
First line:
As a child, I was wild when the band played, how I ran...
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

There's No Business Like...(Yid)

On album:
K-010(h) (Miriam Kressyn & Seymour Rechzeit From Ellis Island...)
Track ID:
21820
Author English Original/Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Artist:
Rexite, Seymour & Miriam Kressyn — רעכטצײַט, סימאָר און מרים רעכטצײַט
Narration:
Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
First line:
Vayl mir makhn di velt lakhn, khotch gelt makhn mir nisht,
First line:
װײל מיר מאַכן די װעלט לאַכן, כאָטש געלט מאַכן מיר נישט,
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
From "Memories of the Yiddish Theatre"

There's No Business Like...(Yid)

On album:
J-024(a)1 (Judische Lebenswelten /Patterns of Jewish Life 1/Berlin 1992)
Track ID:
22277
Yiddish Adaption:
Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Vocal:
Rexite, Seymour & Miriam Kressyn — רעכטצײַט, סימאָר און מרים רעכטצײַט
Artist:
Mlotek, Zalmen — מלאָטעק, זלמן, (1951)
First line:
There's no...khotsh men zugt s'iz nit ay ay!
First line:
דערס נאָ...כאָטש נען זוגט ס'איז ניט אײַ אײַ,
Track comment:
Excerpts from "The Golden Age of Yiddish Theatre"

God Bless America — גאָט בענטש אַמעריקע

Genre:
Song/Patriotic/Anthem
Subject:
America/Love/Mountains/Praries/Oceans/Home
Origin:
See Ephemera Folder 622
Additional song notes:
Yiddish Verion in Ephemera 622
Related information in folder 623:
Comments:
1. See folder #622 for Yiddish text published in the Yiddish Forward of 5/17/2002.
On album:
P-030(a) (Mandy Patinkin Mamaloshen)
Track ID:
26161
Author/Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Artist:
Patinkin, Mandy
Conductor:
Stern, Eric
Arranger:
Ford, Paul
First line:
Got bentsh amerike, land vos ikh lib, shteyzhe bay ir,
First line:
גאָט בענטש אַמעריקע, לאַנד װאָס איך ליב, שטײזשע בײַ איר, מדריך...
Track comment:
With "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"

White Christmas (Yid)

On album:
P-030(a) (Mandy Patinkin Mamaloshen)
Track ID:
26163
Author/Composer:
Berlin, Irving
Artist:
Patinkin, Mandy
Conductor:
Stern, Eric
Arranger:
Ford, Paul
First line:
Ikh khulom fun a vaysn nitl, nor aza nitl ikh farshtey,
First line:
איך חלום פֿון אַ װײַסן ניטל, נאָר װזאַ מיטל איך פֿאַרשטײ,
Track comment:
With "Der Alter Tsigayner"

From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video)

Genre:
Documentary/Show Business
Subject:
Immigration/Integration/Music/Acculturation/Music/Persona
On album:
V0147 (From Shtetl to Swing / Alden Films (Video))
Track ID:
35728
Performer:
Brice, Fanny
Performer:
Calloway, Cab
Performer:
Cantor, Eddie
Performer:
Garland, Judy
Performer:
Jolson, Al
Performer:
Marx Brothers
Performer:
Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי
Performer:
Schwartz, Maurice
Performer:
Tucker, Sophie
Performer:
Berlin, Irving
Narrator:
Fierstein, Harvey
Language:
English
Style:
Narrative/Performances/Spoken Word