#irving berlin

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Miss Piggy and Broadway legend Ethel Merman sing Irving Berlin's Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) on The Muppet Show, originally broadcast in syndication on February 21st, 1977. Ethel introduced the song in the stage musical Annie Get Your Gun in 1946.

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George Gershwin and Irving Berlin, the American musical landscape in two names. Photographed in 1935.

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Irving Berlin, May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989.

With Ellin Mackay, heading back to New York after their honeymoon in 1926.

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Sheet music for Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do," 1924.

Photo: National Museum of American History

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In 1941, Irving Berlin wrote a powerful protest song about Hitler. It's only been recorded a few times - most memorably by the incredible Al Bowlly (who sadly was killed in a Nazi airstrike only two weeks after recording it). This arrangement is by the amazing Dan Barrett (with lots of loving homage to the Bowlly version), and was done in a live take.

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Ella Fitzgerald, “Blue Skies,” 1958

Happy heavenly birthday, Irving Berlin! 🎂💐🎂💐🎂💐 (who wrote the song 100 years ago)