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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 精装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780679419433
Gathered together in one volume for the first time: all of the
incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin, whose career and work
are the most important and all-encompassing in the history of
American popular music.
Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as
a singing waiter, but by the time he was nineteen he was publishing
his songs and quickly found fame with “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” in
1911. In the extraordinary six decades that followed, Berlin wrote
one popular hit after another: “Blue Skies,” “Always,” “Cheek to
Cheek,” “White Christmas,” “God Bless America,” “There’s No
Business Like Show Business,” and many, many more. He also wrote a
number of the classics of musical theater’s Golden Age, climaxing
with Annie Get Your Gun. He penned three Astaire and Rogers
films–Top Hat, Carefree, and Follow the Fleet–as well as the
scores of Holiday Inn, Easter Parade, and other movies. The breadth
of his accomplishments is staggering.
Berlin’s entire oeuvre is here–the lyrics of more than 1,200
songs (400 of which have never before appeared in print), along
with anecdotal, historical, and musicological commentary and dozens
of photographs.
This beautiful volume is an invaluable contribution to the
understanding and enjoyment of popular music in our time.
Foreword by Linda Emmet
Introduction by Rodert kimball
Chronology
Acknowledgments
Songs of 1907-1907
Songs of 1910
Songs of 1911
Songs of 1912
Songs of 1913
Songs of 1914
Unpublished Songs of 1907-1914
WATCG YOUR STEP
Songs of 1915 and STOP!lOOK!LISTEN!
……
CALL ME MAOAM
WHITE CHRISTMAS I 1954
Just how complete? Try 1,200-plus songs from the grand old man
of Tin Pan Alley. Sure, there’s ‘God Bless America,’ but this
late-in-life lyric may strike a chord too: ‘Let’s stroll down
memory lane again/Where there’s a brighter view/Till this crazy
world is sane again/And the sun come shining through.’
- Entertainment Weekly
”Irving Berlin is American music.”
- Jerome Kern — Review
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