irving berlin

The Episode consists of a curated collection of Old Time Radio Clips originally broadcast live August 1 through August 28, 1938.

Starring:

Cast of Blair of the Mounties

Orson Welles

Al Jolson

Irving Berlin

Cast of The Shadow

Seabiscuit

Charlie McCarthy

Nelson Eddy

Edward Arnold

Edgar Bergen

Ella Logan

Rudy Vallee

Featured Songs Include

Marie – Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

My Bonnie – Ella Logan

Heatwave – Ethel Merman

My Lucky Star Medley – Rudy Vallee and his Orchestra

Automobile Theme Song Medley – Rudy Vallee and his Orchestra

In this episode:

Irving Berlin Sings!

Charlie McCarthy becomes a banker!

Big League Woman’s Softball!

Rudy Vallee Sings Jingles about 1938 Cars!

The Munich Crisis!

And More!!

Please come with me on the time machine to the year 1938 and be entertained by these giants of entertainment from long ago, alive again through the magic of the theater of the mind.

This Episode has EVERYTHING!

It's got:

• Ron the Gay Nosed Reindeer!
• I'm a power, dom top!
• Brutalized French, yet again!
• Ghouliani is SCREWED! YAYYYYY!
• Abuse of power finally slapped down!
• Andrew Giuliani is a huge POS, just like his dad!
• Rudy Ghouliani married his second cousin!
• Dave pukes loudly! Paul pukes quietly!
• Petechial hemorrhage = MURDER!
• Loud sneezing!
• Dave can turn on Paul's Siri!
• Screw you, Siri!
• Green Christmases!
• Super Snow Days!
• Latch key kids!
• Song potpourri!
• Marijuana memory loss!
• Dave's first drug experience!
• Leonard!
• Don't mix molly and ketamine!
• Matthew Perry's death due to ketamine!
• Christmas light fun!
• WHERE IS THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC??!!
• TRIVIA TIME!
• Dave hates Paul McCartney's Christmas song!
• War on Christmas!
• A bucket of fried chicken skin!
• Talking bear toys!
• The Omnibot!
• Dr. Seuss was gross!
• Dom toppery, yet again!
• Turkey, ham, and bacon!
• It isn't WILSON, it's Teddy Roosevelt!
• Lincoln was GAY!
• We're gluten free!

Episode Links (In Order):

• Chris Farley as Andrew Giuliani!
• Rudy Giuliani married his second cousin!
• Rudy Giuliani married his second cousin!
• Matthew Perry died from acute effects of ketamine!
• World record Christmas lights display irks neighbours!
• Ronnie Vino - It's Friday Night!
• Omnibot!
• Kentucky family finds owl in Christmas tree!
• Dr. Seuss was Gross!

Music Credit!
Opening Music Graciously Supplied By: John_Yasutis from Pixabay!   
Closing music graciously supplied by: https://audionautix.com/  

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Pinkie & Mildred honor the Birthday of Irving Berlin, born May 11, 1888.
Lived to be 101 years old. Considered by many to be 
The Greatest Song Writer that has ever Lived !

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This second part of the story of Irving Berlin’s life picks up after WWI, and covers his family life, his rise to fame, and the controversies that were part of his career.

Research:

• Bergreen, Laurence. “Irving Berlin: This Is the Army.” Prologue. Summer 1996, Vol. 28, No. 2 https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/summer/irving-berlin-1
• Carlson, Olivia. “What’s White Christmas without Minstrelsy?” Music 345: Race, Identity, and Representation in American Music. Student Blogs and Library Exhibit Companion. https://pages.stolaf.edu/americanmusic/2021/10/25/whats-white-christmas-without-minstrelsy/
• CBS Sunday Morning. “American songsmith Irving Berlin.” Via YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9uq8z2k5E
• Greten, Paula Anne. “Irving Berlin.” American History. August 2006.
• Hamm, Charles. “Irving Berlin -- Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914.” Oxford University Press. Via New York Times. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hamm-berlin.html
• Hamm, Charles. “Alexander and His Band.” American Music , Spring, 1996, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1996). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052459
• Hyland, William G. “The Best Songwriter Of Them All.” Commentary. October 1990.
• "Irving Berlin." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture Online, Gale, 2013. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K2419200098/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=be3b3028. Accessed 16 Nov. 2022.
• Jewish Lives. “Irving Berlin.” Podcast. Episode 4. 11/18/2019.
• Jewish Virtual Library. “Irving Berlin.” https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/irving-berlin
• Judaism Unbound. “Bonus Episode: Irving Berlin – Judah Cohen (American Jewish History #5).” Podcast. Episode 248, October 2 2019.
• Kaplan, James. “Irving Berlin: New York Genius.” Yale University Press. 2019.
• Kennedy Center. “This Land is Your Land: The story behind the song.” https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/music/story-behind-the-song/the-story-behind-the-song/this-land-is-your-land/
• Magee, Jeffrey. "'Everybody Step': Irving Berlin, jazz, and Broadway in the 1920s." Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 59, no. 3, fall 2006, pp. 697+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A157180372/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=07c374cd. Accessed 16 Nov. 2022.
• Markel, Howard. “How Irving Berlin’s blue skies turned to blue days.” PBS NewsHour. 9/24/2021. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-irving-berlins-blue-skies-turned-to-blue-days
• Maslon, Laurence. “Overture.” (And following pages) The Irving Berlin Music Company. https://www.irvingberlin.com/overture
• Schiff, David. “For Everyman, By Everyman.” The Atlantic Monthly. March 1996.
• Spitzer, Nick. “The Story Of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land'.” NPR. 2/15/2012. https://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land
• The Irving Berlin Music Company. “Irving Berlin.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57d1974abe6594a72075321b/t/5a5f673eec212d2269841cf4/1516201791369/Irving+Berlin+-+official+biography.pdf
• White, Timothy. “Irving Berlin Knew Pop Music’s Power.” Billboard. Vol. 111, Issue 21. 5/22/1999.
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. Dieckhaus, 153 F.2d 893, 898 (8th Cir. 1946) https://casetext.com/case/twentieth-century-fox-film-corp-v-dieckhaus
• Bornstein, George. "Say it with music." TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 5698, 15 June 2012, p. 9. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A667239228/LitRC?u=mlin_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=7d90f5a8. Accessed 2 Dec. 2022.

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The immeasurably famous Irving Berlin seems like the perfect example of a U.S. immigrant success story. But reality is complicated and imperfect, and so was Berlin’s music-filled life.

Research:

• Bergreen, Laurence. “Irving Berlin: This Is the Army.” Prologue. Summer 1996, Vol. 28, No. 2 https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/summer/irving-berlin-1
• Carlson, Olivia. “What’s White Christmas without Minstrelsy?” Music 345: Race, Identity, and Representation in American Music. Student Blogs and Library Exhibit Companion. https://pages.stolaf.edu/americanmusic/2021/10/25/whats-white-christmas-without-minstrelsy/
• CBS Sunday Morning. “American songsmith Irving Berlin.” Via YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV9uq8z2k5E
• Greten, Paula Anne. “Irving Berlin.” American History. August 2006.
• Hamm, Charles. “Irving Berlin -- Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914.” Oxford University Press. Via New York Times. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hamm-berlin.html
• Hamm, Charles. “Alexander and His Band.” American Music , Spring, 1996, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1996). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052459
• Hyland, William G. “The Best Songwriter Of Them All.” Commentary. October 1990.
• "Irving Berlin." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture Online, Gale, 2013. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K2419200098/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=be3b3028. Accessed 16 Nov. 2022.
• Jewish Lives. “Irving Berlin.” Podcast. Episode 4. 11/18/2019.
• Jewish Virtual Library. “Irving Berlin.” https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/irving-berlin
• Judaism Unbound. “Bonus Episode: Irving Berlin – Judah Cohen (American Jewish History #5).” Podcast. Episode 248, October 2 2019.
• Kaplan, James. “Irving Berlin: New York Genius.” Yale University Press. 2019.
• Kennedy Center. “This Land is Your Land: The story behind the song.” https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/media/music/story-behind-the-song/the-story-behind-the-song/this-land-is-your-land/
• Magee, Jeffrey. "'Everybody Step': Irving Berlin, jazz, and Broadway in the 1920s." Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 59, no. 3, fall 2006, pp. 697+. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A157180372/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=07c374cd. Accessed 16 Nov. 2022.
• Markel, Howard. “How Irving Berlin’s blue skies turned to blue days.” PBS NewsHour. 9/24/2021. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-irving-berlins-blue-skies-turned-to-blue-days
• Maslon, Laurence. “Overture.” (And following pages) The Irving Berlin Music Company. https://www.irvingberlin.com/overture
• Schiff, David. “For Everyman, By Everyman.” The Atlantic Monthly. March 1996.
• Spitzer, Nick. “The Story Of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land'.” NPR. 2/15/2012. https://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land
• The Irving Berlin Music Company. “Irving Berlin.” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57d1974abe6594a72075321b/t/5a5f673eec212d2269841cf4/1516201791369/Irving+Berlin+-+official+biography.pdf
• White, Timothy. “Irving Berlin Knew Pop Music’s Power.” Billboard. Vol. 111, Issue 21. 5/22/1999.
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. Dieckhaus, 153 F.2d 893, 898 (8th Cir. 1946) https://casetext.com/case/twentieth-century-fox-film-corp-v-dieckhaus
• Bornstein, George. "Say it with music." TLS. Times Literary Supplement, no. 5698, 15 June 2012, p. 9. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A667239228/LitRC?u=mlin_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=7d90f5a8. Accessed 2 Dec. 2022.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you ever wonder what inspires composers and songwriters to create the music they do? Would you be surprised to learn that some of our favorite Christmas tunes were written in the heat of the summer?

On today’s podcast, I’ll share some of the interesting things I discovered about some of the songs we enjoy throughout the holiday season.

Learn more at www.PianoParentPodcast.com/072

Merry Christmas!!

Part 4 of the story behind how they made the 1946 Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun.  

Written & presented by: Lesley Anne Knight
Director and Editor: Kate Ridout
Podcasts edited by: Kate Ridout and Emma Heritage

Watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/JH-CDFwYDA8
Twitter: @knightandridout
Instagram: Just Talking Musicals @lesley_knight
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Just-Talking-Musicals-100516584652278
Website: www.justtalkingmusicals.com
Theme Tune: Lesley Anne Knight
Thumbnail designs by: Liv Roberts
Social Media Manager: Emma Heritage

Part 3 of the story behind how they made the 1946 Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun.  

Written & presented by: Lesley Anne Knight
Director and Editor: Kate Ridout
Podcasts edited by: Kate Ridout and Emma Heritage

Watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/n6at84DoY6A
Twitter: @knightandridout
Instagram: Just Talking Musicals @lesley_knight
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Just-Talking-Musicals-100516584652278
Website: www.justtalkingmusicals.com
Theme Tune: Lesley Anne Knight
Thumbnail designs by: Liv Roberts
Social Media Manager: Emma Heritage

Part 2 of the story behind how they made the 1946 Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun.  

Written & presented by: Lesley Anne Knight
Director and Editor: Katie Ridout
Podcasts edited by: Kate Ridout and Emma Heritage

Watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/lGrqBVrwBkA
Twitter: @knightandridout
Instagram: Just Talking Musicals @lesley_knight
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Just-Talking-Musicals-100516584652278
Website: www.justtalkingmusicals.com
Theme Tune: Lesley Anne Knight
Thumbnail designs by: Liv Roberts
Social Media Manager: Emma Heritage

Part 1 of the story behind how they made the 1946 Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun.  

Written & presented by: Lesley Anne Knight
Director and Editor: Katie Ridout
Podcasts edited by: Kate Ridout and Emma Heritage


Watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/_AyBVeA0irU
Twitter: @knightandridout
Instagram: Just Talking Musicals @lesley_knight
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Just-Talking-Musicals-100516584652278
Website: www.justtalkingmusicals.com
Theme Tune: Lesley Anne Knight
Thumbnail designs by: Liv Roberts

The crowd sourcing website GoGFundMe is changing charities. CBS News Contributor David Pogue reports. With songs like "White Christmas" "God Bless America" and "Puttin on the Ritz," Irving Berlin was a composer for all seasons, as Mo Rocca tells us.

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