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Article: Show business! Irving Berlin's Broadway.(Entertainment)(exhibition at The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex.)(Brief article)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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As one of the country's most beloved songwriters, Irving Berlin (1888-1989) left a treasured legacy to popular music. Composing over 1,500 songs, including the patriotic and theatrical anthems. "God Bless America" and "There's No Business Like Show Business," Berlin was an American institution without equal.
During his more than five decades in show business, Berlin wrote songs ranging from the soulful "Supper Time" (1933), intoned by Ethel Waters, and the rousing "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)" (1946), belted by Ethel Merman, to the hilarious numbers performed by the Marx Brothers in "The Cocoanuts" (1925).
"For generations of Americans, Berlin ...
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Article: Irving Berlin, RIP. (obituary)
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October 27, 1989 ;
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... ... to know who he was, Irving Berlin a few times dropped ... their subject matter. Irving Berlin believed those lyrics ... s No Business like Show Business," "Cheek to Cheek ... thousand others. Though Irving Berlin has died at 101, he ...
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