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Songs of 1907-1909. Marie from sunny Italy ; The best of friends must part ; Queenie ; Dorando ; I didn't go home at all ; No one could do it like my father ; Sadie Salome (go home) ; My wife's gone to the country (Hurrah! Hurrah!) ; Just like the rose ; Oh, what I know about you ; Someone's waiting for me (we'll wait, wai, wait) ; Do your duty, doctor! (oh, oh, oh, oh, doctor) ; Goodbye, girlie, and remember me ; Wild cherries (coony, spoony rag) ; Oh! Where is my wife tonight? ; She was a dear little girl ; Some little something about you ; If I thought you wouldn't tell ; I wish that you was my gal, Molly ; Next to your mother, who do you love? ; Stop that rag (keep on playing, honey) ; Yiddie, on your fiddle, play some ragtime ; Christmas-time seems years and years away ; I just came back to say goodbye ; That mesmerizing Mendelssohn tune ; Spring song melody ; Someone just like you ; Before I go and marry, I will have a talk with you ; My father was an Indian -- Songs of 1910. Telling lies ; Sweet Marie, make-a rag-a-time dance wid me ; If the managers only thought the same as mother ; Oh, how that German could love ; When I hear you play that piano, Bill ; It can't be did ; Draggy rag ; Angelo ; Dear Mayme, I love you ; Grizzly bear ; Call me up some rainy afternoon ; That opera rag ; I'm a happy married man ; I love you more each day ; Alexander and his clarinet ; Sweet Italian love ; Try it on your piano ; Oh, that beautiful rag ; Kiss me, my honey, kiss me ; "Thank you, kind sir!" said she ; Yiddisha eyes ; Is there anything else I can do for you? ; Colored Romeo ; Stop, stop, stop (come over and love me some more) ; Herman, let's dance that beautiful waltz ; Piano man ; Innocent Bessie Brown ; Dreams, just dreams ; I'm going on a long vacation ; Bring back my Lena to me ; Wishing ; That Kazzatsky dance ; It's really none of my affairs -- Songs of 1911. Dat's-a my girl ; That dying rag ; Alexander's ragtime band ; Virginia Lou ; That monkey tune ; When I'm alone I'm lonesome ; I beg your pardon, dear old Broadway ; The whistling rag ; When you're in town ; Business is business ; Spanish love ; Down to the folies Bergere ; When it rains, sweetheart, when it rains ; Molly-O! Oh, Molly! ; When you kiss an Italian girl ; Ephraham played upon the piano ; You've built a fire down in my heart ; Woodman, woodman, spare that tree! ; Run home and tell your mother ; After the honeymoon ; That mysterious rag ; One o'clock in the morning I get lonesome ; There's a girl in Havana ; Don't take your beau to the seashore ; Doggone that chilly man ; Ragtime violin! ; Yiddisha nightingale ; My melody dream ; You've got me hypnotized ; Everybody's doin' it now ; Bring back my lovin' man ; Sombrero land ; Cuddle up ; Bring me a ring in the spring and I'll know that you love me ; He promised me ; Meet me tonight ; Yankee love ; How do you do it, Mabel, on twenty dolalrs a week ; Beautiful chorus girls ; The Yiddisha ball ; I might go home tonight ; Spooning in the new-mown hay ; Drink, brothers, drink -- Songs of 1912. Pick, pick, pick, pick on the mandolin, Antonio ; I want to be Dixie ; Take a little tip from father ; Ragtime mockingbird ; I'm afraid, pretty maid, I'm afraid ; Alexander's bagpipe band ; Opera burlesque ; Spring and fall ; I've got to have some lovin' now ; Society bear ; Lead me to that beautiful band ; The million-dollar ball ; Antonio ; Come back, Antonio ; That's how I love you ; A true-born soldier man ; Fiddle-dee-dee ; Becky's got a job in a musical show ; The ragtime jockey man ; When Johnson's quartette harmonize ; Call again! ; The elevator man going up! Going up! Going up! Going up! ; Ragtime soldier man ; Keep away from the man with the automobile ; When I'm thinking of you ; Come back to me, my melody ; Do it again ; A little bit of everything ; Hiram's band ; Down in my heart ; My sweet Italian man ; When the midnight choo-choo leaves for Alabam' ; When I lost you ; They all came with you ; That's just why I love you ; Father's beard ; Follow me around ; At the devil's ball ; If all the girls I knew were like you ; Don't leave your wife alone ; Yiddisha professor ; Only a girl ; Goddy, goody, goody, goody, good ; Wait until your Daddy comes home ; The funny little melody ; If it wasn't for my wife and baby ; I'll make it warm for you ; Midnight eyes ; I had a dream last night ; Musical mose ; Paint me a picture of the man I love -- Songs of 1913. He's so good to me ; Anna Liza's wedding day ; At the picture show ; Welcome home ; In my harem ; My sweet Italian man ; Snooky Ookums ; Oos Snooky Ookums is oo ; The apple tree and the bumblebee ; San Francisco bound ; The Ki-i-youdle-ing dog ; Keep on walking ; The old maids ball ; You picked a bad day out to say goodbye ; The Pullman Porters on parade ; Abie sings an Irish song ; The monkey doodle doo ; Somebody's coming to my house ; Happy little country girl ; Happy little chorus girl ; We have much to be thankful for ; They've got me doin' it now ; They've got me doin' it now medley ; That humming rag ; The international rag ; Kiss your sailor boy goodbye ; Take me back ; You've got your mother's big blue eyes! ; If you don't want me (why do you hang around) ; Tra-la, la, la! ; What am I gonna do? ; Down in Chattanooga ; Daddy come home ; Down on Uncle Jerry's farm ; I could live on love and kisses ; I want a harm of my own ; I've got a lot of love for you ; I've got to catch a train, goodbye ; Somewhere (but where is it?) ; Yiddisha wedding ; You're goin' to lose your baby someday -- Songs of 1914. This is the life ; Follow the crowd ; It isn't what he said, but the way he said it ; I love to quarrel with you ; He's a devil in his own hometown ; God gave you to me ; Along came Ruth ; If I had you ; They're on their way to Mexico ; If you don't want my peaches (you'd better stop shaking my tree) ; The haunted house ; If that's your idea of a wonderful time (take me home) ; I want to go back to Michigan (down on the farm) ; I want to go back to the farm ; Always treat her like a baby ; He's a ragpicker ; Furnishing a home for two ; That's my idea of paraidse ; Stay down here where you belong ; The popular song ; Tip the waiter ; Revival day ; Hey, wop -- Unpublished songs of 1907-1914. All aboard for Matawan ; All day long I sigh ; All my love and kisses ; All that I want ; At the acrobatic ball ; Be careful ; A beautiful photograph ; Brains ; Bring your money to me ; The call of my broken heart ; Eight little songwriters ; Ever since I met you I'm a nut ; The garden of tirls ; Gee, but it's great to be a chorus girl ; He never comes home at all ; He walks in his sleep ; Here's to Flo ; He's just that kind of a man ; Honey, I feel blue ; How did I ever live without you? ; I heard you say ; I love a small town ; I want to marry you ; I'll hang around ; I'll make you love me ; I'm going back, back, back to Hades ; In the twilight ; Is everybody satisfied? ; It's all in the game ; I've written another melody ; I've written another song ; Just for you ; Kentucky Rye ; Million-dollar girl ; My dreams were of a wondrous love ; My gal in Italy ; My tango man ; Oriental ways ; Poor little chambermaid ; Ragtime preacher ; Samuel Brown (the operatic waiter) ; Save a little bit for me ; Sell my shack in Hackensack ; So nice ; Someday you'll come back to me ; Something was going to happen ; Sweetheart, if I had you ; Take me back to the garden of love (parody) ; Teach me to cuddle up ; That garden of beautiful girls ; That tired melody ; That's how I love you, Mike ; Wait'll you land in dear old Texas ; We had a wonderful honeymoon ; We'll meet again ; What's good enough for your father is good enough for you ; When they begin to play ; Where my heart ought to be ; You will never grow old ; Your automobile is burning, Abie -- Watch your step: 1914. Offic hours ; What is love? ; Lead me to love ; I'm a dancing teacher now ; They're dancing teachers ; The minstrel parade ; Let's go around the town ; They always follow me around ; Show us how to do the fox-trot ; When I discovered you ; The syncopated walk ; Metropolitan nights ; I love to have the boys around me ; Settle down in a one-horse town ; I've gotta go back to Texas ; Ragtime opera medley ; Move over ; Homeward bound ; Simple melody/Musical demon ; Watch your step ; Look at 'em doing it ; When it's nighttime in Dixieland ; I hate you ; Lock me in your harem and throw away the key ; Come to the land of the Argentine ; I'm getting strong for you ; Evening exercise ; There's a fire burning down in my heart (put it out - put it out - put it out) ; There's a girl on my mind ; When I'm in love ; If they were all like you ; Husbands - wives - sweethearts ; When I get back to my hometown ; Caruso song -- Songs of 1915 and Stop! Look! Listen!: 1915. Songs of 1915. All she does is sit around the house ; The voice of Belgium ; I'm going back to the farm ; Si's been drinking cider ; My bird of paraidse ; While the band played an American rag ; When I leave the world behind ; Araby ; Cohen owes me ninety-seven dollars ; I love to stay at home ; When you're down in Louisville call on me -- |
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Stop! Look! Listen!: 1915. These are the costumes the manager selected ; Blow your horn ; Why don't they give us a chance ; I love to dance ; And father wanted me to learn a trade ; The girl on the magazine ; I love a piano ; That hula-hula ; A pair of ordinary coons ; When I'm out with you ; Take of a little bit ; Teach me how to love ; The law must be obeyed ; Ragtime melodrama ; When I get back to the U.S.A. ; Stop! Look! Listen! ; Skating song ; Everything in America is Ragtime ; Sailor song ; Until I fell in love with you ; Oozums little snoozums is oo ; Hunting for a star ; Don't you remember Mary Brown? -- Songs of 1916 and The Century Girl: 1916. Songs of 1916. Songwriter's speech ; The friar's parade ; I've got a sweet tooth bothering me ; Hurry back to my bamboo shack ; He's getting too darn big for a one-horse town ; In Florida among the palms ; When the black sheep returns to the fold ; I'm down in Honolulu looking them over ; I'm not prepared ; Santa Claus - a syncopated Christmas song -- The Century Girl: 1916. The music lesson ; Kiss me once more ; It takes an Irishman to make love ; The chicken walk ; Alice in wonderland ; On the train of a wedding gown ; My once-in-a-century girl -- Songs of 1917-1918. Someone else may be there while I'm gone ; The road that leads to love ; From here to Shanghai ; Dance and grow thin ; The Kirchner girl ; Let's all be Americans now ; There's something nice about the south ; There are two eyes in Dixie ; For your country and my country ; How can I forget (when there's so much to remember)? ; Smile and show your dimple ; Who's little heart are you breaking now? ; Mr. Jazz himself ; My sweetie ; I'll take you back to Italy ; Poor little rich girl's dog ; Wasn't it yesterday ; If I had my way i'd live among the gypsies ; Down where the jack-o'lanterns grow ; When the curtain falls (first act, second act, and third act) ; They were all out of step but Jim ; The devil has bought up all the coal ; Dear doctor ; Over the sea, boys ; I'm gonna pina medal on the girl I left behind ; The circus is coming to town ; Come along to toy town ; Ding dong ; The blue devils of France ; I wouldn't give "that" for the man who couldn't dance ; It's the little bit of Irish ; Goodbye, France (you'll never be forgotten by the U.S.A.) ; I have just one heart for just one boy ; You're so beautiful -- Yip, Yip, Yaphank: 1918. We live at upton with major general bell ; Hello, hello, hello ; Hesitation blues ; Bevo ; Silver threads (pardoy) ; Ever since I put on a uniform ; The sterling silver moon ; Ragtime razor brigade ; Ding dong ; Page boys ; COme along, come along, come along ; Love interest ; Sent a lot of jazz bands over there ; Oh! How I hate to get up in the morning ; Down from the follies ; The military police ; The army cooks ; The army doctors ; Prisoners ; Buglers ; Kitchen police (poor little me) ; I can always find a little sunshine in the YMCA ; We're on our way to France ; Kiss me, sergeant ; Wait until we get over there -- Songs of 1919 and unpublished songs of 1915-1919. Songs of 1919. That revolutionary rag ; The hand that rocked my cradle rules my heart ; Nobody knows and nobody seems to care ; The new moon ; I lost my heart in Dixieland ; I've got my captain working for me now ; Sweeter than sugar (is my sweetie) ; Everything is rosy now for rosie ; Eyes of youth ; I left my door open and my daddy walked out ; Was there ever a pal like you? ; I wonder ; When my baby smiles -- Unpublished songs of 1915-1919. At the poker ball ; Becky is shimmying now ; The Hawaiian blues ; The sad hawaiian blues ; I know that lady ; If I had my way (I'd be a farmer) ; Let every true American man ; Love's labor lost ; The night is filled with jazzbows ; Shakespeare speech ; Songwriters ; Tum-tiddle-dee-um-tum ; Under the palms ; Until ; We're with Mr. Wilson -- Ziegfeld follies of 1919, Ziegfeld follies of 1920. Ziegfeld follies of 1919. I'd rather see a minstrel show ; Mandy ; Minstrel show finale ; Harlem life (outside of that every little thing's all right) ; I'm the guy who guards the harem (and my heart's in my work) ; A pretty girl is like a melody ; You cannot make your shimmy shake on tea ; A syncopated cocktail ; My tambourine girl ; You'd be surprised ; Look out for the Bolsheviki man ; Who was king Solomon's favorite wife? ; Beautiful faces need beautiful clothes -- Ziegfeld Follies of 1920. Chinese firecrackers ; The girls of my dreams ; The girl of your dreams ; Bells ; Tell me, little gypsy ; The leg of nations ; Come along sextet ; The syncopated vamp ; I live in turkey ; Turkey ; Stage door song -- Music box revues: 1921-1924. Music box revue of 1921. What's in the queer-looking bundle?; Where am I?; We work while you sleep; We'll take the plot to Ziegfeld; Eight little notes ; Dance your troubles away ; Behind the fan ; In a cozy kitchenette apartment; dining out ; My little book of poetry ; Say it with music ; Everybody step ; I'm a dumbbell ; The schoolhouse blues ; Fair exchange; At the court around the corner ; They call it dancing ; The legend of the pearls ; An interview ; Ladies and gentlemen, every revue -- Music box revue of 1922. Take a little wife ; Porcelain maid ; Lady of the evening ; I'm looking for a daddy longlegs ; Crinoline days ; Pack up your sins and go to the devil ; The little red lacquer cage ; Will she come from the east? (east, west, north, or south) ; Diamond horseshoe ; bring on the pepper ; Montmartre -- Music box revue of 1923. When you walked out, somebody else walked in ; One girl ; Tell me a bedtime story ; Maid of mesh ; An orange grove in California ; Learn to do the strut ; Little butterfly ; The waltz of long ago ; Climbing up the scale ; "Yes, we have no bananas" opera burlesque -- Music box revue of 1924. Catskill mountains scene; Broadway scene ; Where is my little old New York? ; Tokio blues ; A couple of senseless censors ; Don't send me back to Petrograd ; Unlucky in love ; Tell her in the springtime ; Who ; Listening ; The call of the south ; Candanna ball ; Alice in wonderland ; I want to be a ballet dancer ; Rockabye, baby ; Wild cats ; In the shade of a sheltering tree ; Don't wait too long ; Yiddisha eskimo -- Songs of 1920-1924. I'll see you un C-U-B-A ; After you get what you want, you don't want it ; But! (She's just a little bit crazy about her husband, that's all) ; Lindy ; Home again blues ; Drowsy head ; I like it ; Pickaninny mose ; There's a corner up in heaven ; All by myself ; The passion flower ; Some sunny day ; Homesick ; Don't blame it all on the music ; Too many sweethearts ; Tell me with a melody ; Tell all the folks in Kentucky (I'm comin home) ; The happy new year blues ; What'll I do? ; Lazy ; We'll all go voting for Al ; All alone -- Songs of 1925-1926. Remember ; He doesn't know what it's all about ; Always ; It's a wlak-in with Walker ; Venetian isles ; We'll never know ; At peace with the world ; How many times? ; That's a good girl ; Because I love you ; I'm on my way home ; My baby's come back to me ; Just a little longer ; Blue skies -- The cocoanuts: 1925-1926. Florida by the sea ; The guests; the bell hop ; A hotel of our own ; With a family reputation ; Why am I a hit with the ladies? ; A little bungalow ; The monkey-doodle-doo ; Lucky boy ; Five o'clock tea ; They're blaming the Charleston ; We should care ; Minstrel days ; Tango melody ; The tale of a shirt ; Why do you want to know why? ; Gentlemen prefer blondes ; Ting-a-long the bells'll ring ; Everyone in the world is doing the Charleston ; When my dreams come true ; Take 'im away (he's breakin' my heart) ; What's there about me? ; Can't you tell? -- Ziegfeld follies of 1927. We want to be glorified ; Ribbons and bows ; Shaking the blues away ; Ooh, maybe it's you ; Rainbow of girls ; It all belongs to me ; It's up to the band ; Jimmy ; Learn to sing a love song ; The jungle jingle ; You have to have "it" in Hollywood ; My New York ; Walker glorified New York ; In those good old bowery days ; Why should he fly at so much a week (when he could be the sheik of Paree) -- Songs of 1927-1929 and unpublished songs of the 1920s. Shadows ; What does it matter? ; Russian lullaby ; Together we two ; The song is ended (but the melody lingers on) ; Sunshine ; I can't do without you ; My little feller ; To be forgotten ; Roses of yesterday ; Yascha Michaeloffsky's melody ; I love my neighbor ; Good times with Hoover, better times with Al ; How about me? ; At the coconut grove ; The bride went home with her mother (and the groom went back to his wife) ; Dance ; Don't forget to remember ; Don't know words enough ; How was I to know? ; I couldn't speak any English ; I want to jazz my troubles away ; In Napoli ; Lady ; On account of you ; Tell me when ; When ; Wherever you are ; Why can't you be sweet more often? ; You're an Uptown gal with a downtown heart ; (Across the breakfast table) looking at you ; Let me sing and I'm happy ; Let me sing ; My castle ; Nora ; To my mammy ; In the morning ; Knights of the road ; Puttin' on the Ritz ; With you ; Marie (the dawn is breaking) ; Where is the song of songs for me? ; Coquette ; Swanee shuffle ; Waiting at the end of the road -- |
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Reaching for the moon: 1930. Brokers' ensemble (don't sell America short) ; Do you believe your eyes or do you believe your baby? ; How much I love you ; It's yours ; What a lucky break for me ; They're going down (brokers' and cusomers' song) ; Wedding and crash ; If you believe ; The little things in life ; When the folks high up do the mean low-down ; Reaching for the moon ; A toast to prohibition ; You've gotta do right by me ; (I ask you) is that nice? -- Face the music: 1932. Lunching at the automat ; Let's have another cup of coffee ; Reisman's doing a show ; Torch song ; You msut be born with it ; (Castles in Spain) on a roof in Manhattan ; My beautiful rhinestone girl ; Soft lights and sweet music ; Well, of all the rotten shows ; I say it's spinach (and the hell with it) ; I don't wanna be married ( I just wanna be friends) ; Manhattan madness ; Investigation ; The nudist colony ; Reisman's putting it on ; Two cheers instead of three ; The police of New York ; The dancing cops ; How can I change my luck? -- As thousands cheer: 1933. Man bites dog ; How's chances ; Heat wave ; Debts ; Lonely heart ; The funnies ; To be or not to be ; Easter parade ; Easter parade - sonnet ; Metropolitan opening ; Supper time ; Society ; Wedding ; Harlem on my mind ; Through a keyhole ; Not for all the rice in China ; At last, at last (finale, Act III) ; Skate with me ; Midget number ; Mr. and Mrs. Hoover ; Eighteenth amendment repealed ; Capone in his cell ; Ain't you comin' to the fair? -- Good gulf program: 1934 and other songs of 1930-1934. Good gulf program: 1934. So help me ; Say it with music ; How does a songwriter write? ; Once more my memory strays ; In that first revue ; Most of the songs that you hear ; This is my final broadcast ; How many gallon of oil have you sold? ; How many copies of songs have you sold? ; I never had a chanve ; Gulf oil finale -- Other songs of 1930-1934. All I need is love ; Just a little while ; I want you for myself ; Any love today? ; Begging for love ; Sleep, baby ; Me ; Chase all your cares (and go to sleep, baby) ; I'll miss you in the evening ; A little sympathy ; Say it isn't so ; How deep is the ocean (how high is the sky) ; A new way to say "I love you" ; I'm playing with fire ; Maybe it's because I love you too much ; I can't remember ; All I bring you is love ; Butterfingers ; Moon over Napoli -- Top hat: 1935. No strings (I'm fancy free) ; Isn't this a lovely day (to be caught in the rain)? ; Top hat, white tie and tails ; Cheek to cheek ; The piccolino -- Follow the fleet: 1936. We saw the sea ; Let yourself go ; Get thee behind me, satan ; I'd rather lead a band ; But where are you? ; I'm putting all my eggs in one basket ; Let's face the music and dance ; Moonlight maneuvers ; There's a smile on my face -- On the avenue: 1937. He ain't got rhythm ; The girl on the Police Gazette ; You're laughing at me ; This year's kisses ; I've got my love to keep me warm ; SLumming on park avenue ; On the steps of Grant's tomb ; Swing, sister! ; Customers, we greet you -- Alexander's ragtime band: 1938. Now it can be told ; My walking stick ; Marching along with time -- Carefree: 1938. Since they turned Loch Lamond into swing ; The night is filled with music ; I used to be color blind ; The yam ; Change partners ; Carefree ; You can be my cave man ; Let's make the most of our dream ; What the well-dressed man will wear ; Words ; Why do I love you? -- God Bless America and other songs of 1935-1939. You're the top (parody) ; When your heart is full o' trouble ; For George Gershwin ; God Bless America -- Music box revue of 1938-1939. Tickets, please ; In the early Grecian days ; The crystal ball - opening chorus ; Columnists' song ; This patter that we do ; How'd you like what you saw? ; Now how'd you like what you so saw so far? ; Many are the changes ; Hey there, you - manager ; Patter to vaudeville show ; Commercial photography ; Now here is the written endorsement ; Endorsement prominent American women ; Lost and found bureau ; Quintuplets' song ; Society bums ; Put soe clothes on, dear ; This word-and-music patter -- Second fiddle: 1939. An old-fashioned tune always is new ; The song of the metronome ; Back to back ; When winter comes ; I poured my heart into a song ; I'm sorry for myself -- Louisiana purchase: 1940. Apologia ; Sex marches on ; Louisiana purchase ; It's a lovely day tomorrow ; Outside of that, I love you ; You're lonely and I'm lonely ; Dance with me (tonight at the Mardi Gras) ; Act I finale ; Latins know how ; What chance have I? ; The Lord done fixed up my soul ; Fools fall in love ; You can't brush me off ; Act II finale ; It'll come to you ; I'd love to be shot out of a cannon with you ; Wild about you ; I'm a quaker's daughter from the Latin quarter ; The waltz of old Vienna ; You must catch a senator with a girl ; In an old-fashioned parlor ; We might have had a future -- Holiday Inn: 1942. I'll capture your heart singing ; You're easy to dance with ; White Christmas ; Happy holiday; Holiday inn ; Customers, I'm here to greet you ; Let's start the new year right ; Abraham ; Be careful, it's my heart ; I can't tell a lie ; Let's say it with firecrackers ; Song of freedom ; Plenty to be thankful for ; Holiday inn - finale ; This is a great country -- This is the army: 1942. Opening (the army and the Shuberts depend on you) ; Opening chorus (some dough for the army relief) ; This is the army, Mister Jones ; I'm getting tired so I can sleep ; My sergeant and I are buddies ; My captain and I are buddies ; Don't sing, go into your dance ; I left my heart at the stage door ; Canteen ; The army's made a man out of me ; Yip, yip, yaphanker's introduction ; Ladies of the chorus ; That Russian winter ; That's what the well-dressed man in Harlem will wear ; How about a cheer for the navy? ; Opening of act II (Jance Cowl number) ; American Eagles ; With my head in the clouds ; Aryans under the skin ; A soldier's dream ; This time (closing) ; Ve don't like it ; What does he look like (that boy of mine)? ; Dressed up to kill; dressed up to win ; Officer's speech ; England and America ; The kick in the pants ; My British buddy ; Daddy's coming home on a furlough ; The fifth army is where my heart is ; What are we going to do with all the Jeeps? ; There are no wings on a foxhole ; Misses the army ; Cozy little foxhole by the sea ; I get along with the Aussies ; I'm getting old in New Guinea ; Heaven watch the Philippines ; Oh, to be home again ; Oh, for a dress again ; What is a war song -- Other songs of 1940-1945. A little old church in England ; Everybody knew but me ; In old San Juan ; When tat man is dead and ogne ; Any bonds today? ; Any bombs today? ; Arms for the love of America (the army ordinance song) ; When this crazy world is sane again ; Angels of mercy ; I paid my income tax today ; The president's birthday ball ; This time ; Me and my piano ; Me and my Melinda ; The youth parade ; I threw a kiss in the ocean ; Till we hang the paper hanger ; Take me with you, soldier boy ; If I could write the nation's laws ; All my life ; Mona ; Just a blue serge suit ; Eyes to see with -- Blue skies: 1946. A serenade to an old-fashioned girl ; I'll see you in C-U-B-A ; A couple of song-and-dance men ; You keep coming back like a song ; We keep coming back with a song ; (Runnign around in circles) getting nowhere ; The race horse and the flea ; Wilhelmina ; I'll dance rings around you ; It's a lovely day for a walk ; Have you ever tried drinking water? ; I want you to meet my girl ; The road to yesterday ; I'd rather not dance again ; Mending the old world (making it new) ; My old pal -- Annie get your gun: 1946. Colonel Buffalo Bill ; I'm a bad, bad man ; Doin' what comes naturally ; The girl that I marry ; You can't get a man with a gun ; There's no business like show business ; They'll say it's wonderful ; Moonshine lullaby ; I'll share it all with you ; My defenses are down ; I'm an Indian too ; I got lost in his arms ; Who do you love? I hope ; I got the sun in the morning ; Anything you can do ; Take it in your stride (whatever the fates decide) ; With music ; Pardners ; Something bad's gonna happen ('cause I feel so good) ; Let's go west again ; An old-fashioned wedding ; Who needs the birds and bees? -- Easter parade: 1948. Happy Easter ; Drum crazy ; It only happens when I dance with you ; A fella with an umbrella ; Steppin' out with my baby ; A couple of swells ; Better luck next time ; Mr. Monotony/Mrs. Monotony ; I love you - you love him -- Stars on my shoulders: 1948 and other songs of 1946-1949. Stars on my shoulders: 1948. Five o'clock in the afternoon ; Beautiful Brooklyn ; A beautiful day in Brooklyn ; Funny when you're left with nothing more to say ; John Jacob Astor ; If we weren't married ; A roof over my head ; Monohan and Callahan -- Other songs of 1946-1949. Help me to help my neighbor ; Kate (Have I come too early, too late?) ; Love and the weather ; The freedom train ; Mister Jolson ; Lyric ideas for professional children's school show ; I gave her my heart in Acapulco ; Let's keep in touch while we're dancing ; I'm beginning to miss you ; Jingle bells ; Thanks for the memory (parody) ; Operation vittles ; Operation fraulein -- |
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Miss Liberty: 1949. Extra! Extra! ; I'd like my picture took ; The most expensive statue in the world ; A little fish in a big pond ; Let's take an old-fashioned walk ; Homework ; Paris wakes up and smiles ; Only for Americans ; Just one way to say I love you ; Miss Liberty ; Consul bows ; The train ; You can have him ; The policemen's ball ; Me and my bundle ; Falling out of love can be fun ; Give me your tired, your poor ; The hon'rable profession of the fourth estate ; I'll know better the next time ; What do I have to do to get my picture in the paper? ; Business for a good girl is bad ; For a good girl it's bad ; The Pulitzer prize ; Sing a song of Sing Sing ; The story of Nell and the Police Gazette ; Only in America ; A woman's place is in the home ; If I had never been born ; They say it's full of Indians -- Call me madam: 1950. Mrs. Sally Adams ; The hostess with the mostes' on the ball ; Washington square dance ; Lichtenburg ; Can you use any money today? ; Marrying for love ; (Dance to the music of) the ocarina ; It's a lovely day today ; The best thing for you ; Something to dance about ; Once upon a time today ; They like Ike ; I like Ike ; I still like Ike ; Ike for four more years ; We still like Ike ; You're just in love ; What did you do to me? ; Free ; Our day of independence ; Our town ; Call me madam ; You've got to be way out to be in ; Nuts to you ; I speak American ; Lichtenburg cheese ; The wild men of Lichtenburg ; Blintzes from Lindy's ; What this country needs -- White christmas: 1954. The old man ; Sisters ; The best things happen while you're dancing ; Snow ; I'd rather see a minstrel show/Mandy ; Count your blessings instead of sheep ; Choreography ; Love, you didn't do right by me ; What can you do with a general? ; Gee, I wish I was back in the army ; A singer - a dancer ; A crooner - a comic ; Santa Claus number ; What does a soldier want for Christmas? ; Sittin' in the sun (countin' my money) -- There's no business like show business: 1954. A man chases a girl (until she catches him) ; A sailor's not a sailor (till a sailor's been tattooed) ; But I ain't got a man ; The gal on the calendar ; I can make you laugh (but I wish you could make you cry) ; When it's peach blossom time in Lichtenburg -- Sentimental guy: 1955-1956 and other songs of the 1950s. Sentimental guy: 1955-1956. Three more minutes to midnight (opening) ; Two more minutes to midnight (opening chorus) ; Card sense ; Dallas/I like New York ; Love leads to marriage ; You're a sucker for a dame ; The snobs on the wrong side of the tracks ; You're a sentimental guy ; I never want to see you again ; Anybody can write ; Gold ; Klondike Kate ; It takes more than love to keep a lady warm ; Love is for boys ; You'd make a wonderful wife for some man -- Palm beach: 1952. Berlin's outline of Palm Beach ; The snobs on the wrong side of the track ; Only four hundred people in the world who can count -- Music box revue television spectacular: 1957. Music box opening ; Introduction to "Everybody step" ; Montmartre ; Go home and tell it to your wife ; When love was all ; Marry and Perry and George ; RCA: "Say it with music" ; Oldsmobile ; "Lady of the evening" ; Coca-cola: "Everybody step" ; The way it was ; The toddle ; You're fun to be with -- Other songs of the 1950s. For the very first time ; The mustache is different (but the words are the same) ; Tribute to Rodgers and Hart ; You gotta believe in Santa Claus ; Sayonara ; Mr. President of ASCAP ; I'm not afraid ; How does a pilot spend his furlough? ; When a three-star general's daughter meets a four-star general's son ; She's graceful and pretty ; The gate to the alley is open ; Aesop (that able fable man) ; 'Twas a wonderful night for waltzing ; Please let me come back to you ; Blue river ; The most ; Out of this world into my arms ; How's your heart ; This is America (opening) ; Anyone can be president ; I keep running away from you ; You can't lose the blues with colors ; Silver platter ; Love with a beat ; Sam, Sam (the man what am) ; A worried old man ; More than silver, more than gold ; Footsteps ; The man in the moon is getting angry ; Israel -- Mr. President: 1962. Mr. President (opening) ; Let's go back to the waltz ; In our hide-away ; The first lady ; Meat and potatoes ; I've got to be around ; The secret service ; It gets lonely in the white house ; Is he the only man in the world? ; They love me ; Pigtails and freckles ; Don't be afraid of romance ; Laugh it up ; Empty pockets filled with love ; Glad to be home ; You need a hobby ; The Washington twist ; The only dance I know ; I'm gonna get him ; This is a great country ; Once ev'ry four years ; Poor Joe ; Anybody can write ; If you haven't got an ear for music ; I've got an ear for music ; Words without music ; Nepotism ; Why shouldn't I like me? -- Say it with music: 1963-1969. Always the same ; It's always the same ; It's the same in every language ; A man to cook for ; A guy on Monday ; One-man woman ; The ten best undressed women ; The PX ; Outside of loving you, I like you ; Outside of loving him ; Whisper it ; I used to play it by ear ; I wanna dance with the girl in my arms ; Musical woodman ; Say it with music -- Songs of 1960-1988. Your love is showing ; Push the table away ; Home again ; You could be beautiful ; Just passing through ; For Johnny Mercer ; Bring back the days ; Long as I can take you home ; I wasn't doing anything wrong ; A little love to start with ; Tomorrow ; Wait until you're married ; Don't call me - I'll call you ; What can you give a man who has everything ; A man who has everything ; To Groucho Marx ; Only God can make a tree ; For Bill Treible ; One kiss led to another ; Kisses without love ; Welcome, comrades, welcome ; The everleigh club ; Pigs ; Moonlyrics ; If you don't like my apples ; Flag waving ; The revolt of the pigs ; I haven't got a home to go to ; Of all the Tin Pan Alley greats ; The day after tomorrow ; Peace ; Let the gate swing open ; The czars kept the gates wide open ; He didn't wake up one morning ; Open your heart ; Song for the Russian people ; What color is love? ; Song for the U.N. ; The battle hymn of the united nations ; Without love ; You can't do it by yourself ; Tell it like it is ; Now that I've reahed threescore and ten ; We've had a lovely evening ; A lullaby with the beat ; They won't be pushed in the sea ; Free again ; Yipper ; The gates are open wide ; The Russians are coming ; Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; To Harold Arlen ; Say it with music (1980 version) ; Fred Astaire ; It takes more than love ; The sun's shining down at last ; Why did we have to fall in love? ; Not because you're beautiful ; If you don't know how old you were ; Old men ; Vote, America ; Old songs ; Till this crazy world is sane again ; It's about time ; Mister Alexander Coh'n ; Back again ; Growing gray -- Epilogue. An angel from heaven ; Baby ; Careless ; Count sheep ; Cover girl ; The garbage man ; The girl I want ; The gold in a golden wedding day ; I didn't think we'd better send them back ; It can't be did ; My favorite song ; My heart is mended now (come back and break it) ; No man is good enough ; Seeing things through eyes of love ; That wonderful tango ; This time it's love ; Alexander's ragtime band (parody) ; What can a songwriter say?. |
| Abstract |
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. He 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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 00062890 |
| ISBN | 0679419438 (lib. bdg.) |
