There's No Business like Irving Berlin 1/2
Monday 20 March 2006 16:00-17:00 (Radio 3)
Edward Seckerson's profile of the legendary songwriter about whom Jerome Kern observed: "Irving has no place in American music. He is American music." Including God Bless America, Everybody's Doing It and Blue Skies.
Playlist
Stage & Screen
Monday 20 March 2006
4pm
Producer: Bill Lloyd
Factsheet: Shona Pew
There's No Business like Irving Berlin: Part 1
Another chance to hear Edward Seckerson's 2-part profile of the legendary songwriter about whom Jerome Kern observed: "Irving has no place in American music. He is American music." Including "God Bless America", "Everybody's Doing It" and "Blue Skies".
LP: Kate Smith - On The Air!
Side 1 Band 1 - God Bless America (as heard on "The Kate Smith Hour", CBS net, Nov 10 1938 - the first time the song was broadcast)
Sandy Hook Records SH 2085
CD: The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume1
Track 6 - Alexander's Ragtime Band (from Hullo Ragtime, 1912), performed by Ethel Levey
Pearl GEM 0116
dur .29/pub MCPS
segued into
CD:Ella Fitzgerald - The Irving Berlin Songbook Vol 1
Track 8 - Alexander's Ragtime Band, recorded 1911
conducted by Paul Weston
Verve 829 534-2
CD: The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume1
Track 3 - Everybody's doing it now (from Everybody's Doing It, 1912), performed by Robert Hale & Ida Crispi
Pearl GEM 0116
CD: Barbara Cook - It's Better With A Band
Track 3 - I Love a Piano (from Stop! Look! Listen!), with Wally Harper at the piano
MMG MCD 10010
CD: The Ultimate Irving Berlin Volume1
Track 2 - Woodman, Spare That Tree (from Ziegfield Follies, 1911), performed by Bert Williams
Pearl GEM 0116
CD: The Great Stars Salute Irving Berlin
Track 17 - Heat Wave (from As Thousands Cheer, 1933), performed by Ethel Waters
written with Moss Hart
Conifer CDHD 166
As Thousands Cheer
World Premiere Cast Album
Track 2 - How's Chances?, performed by Judy Kuhn
Varese Sarabande VSD-5999
CD: Bing Crosby Sings Irving Berlin and Rodgers and Hart
Track 2 - How Deep Is The Ocean?
Conifer CDHD 232
CD: Nancy LaMott - Beautiful Baby
Track 7 - Blue Skies
Midder Music MM CD001
Annie Get Your Gun
Original Cast (Book by Dorothy Fields)
Track 1 - Doin' What Comes Naturally, performed by Ethel Merman
Track 3 - You Can't Get A Man With A Gun, performed by Ethel Merman
Track 5 - They Say It's Wonderful, performed by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton
Track 7 - My Defenses Are Down, performed by Ray Middleton and Chorus
Track 12 - Anything You Can Do, performed by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton
Decca 012 159 243-2
CD: Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim
Live at Carnegie Hall
CD2 Track 2 - I Got Lost In His Arms (from Annie Get Your Gun)
with Wally Harper on piano
DRG 91464
Annie Get Your Gun
Original Cast (Book by Dorothy Fields)
Track 4 - There's No Business Like Showbusiness, performed by William O'Neal, Marty May, Ray Middleton and Ethel Merman
Decca 012 159 243-1
