Irving Berlin Music

Origin: Tumen, Russia

Decades: 1910's, 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was the most successful songwriter of the 20th century. Though, like his contemporaries, he spent the better part of his career writing songs (usually both words and music) to be used in Broadway musicals, he is better remembered for the songs themselves than for the shows (and sometimes films) in which they were introduced. This is because Berlin was a master at the kind of music that flourished from the turn of the century until World War II, shows that were really just collectio... Read More