Irving Berlin - Always, Great Songs of Irving Berlin 1994 (vinyl record)

Album: Always: The Great Songs Of Irving Berlin Label: Reader’s Digest Style: Instrumental, Easy Listening Year: 1994 Irving Berlin ( - ) - American composer and lyricist, one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music and songs occupy most of the Great American Songbook. Born in Tsarist Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. Early leaving without a father, after studying in school for only 2 years, I. Berlin went to work. The future composer managed to work as a messenger in a shop, a newsboy. In one of the cafe in New York, Chinatown earned the reputation of a “singing waiter.“ At the request of the owner of the cafe Irving wrote his first song in 1907 “Marie from Sunny Italy“, the author’s fee was 33 cents. His first international hit “Alexander’s Ragtime Band“ was written in 1911, followed by “Puttin ’on the Ritz“, “Cheek to Cheek“, “God bless America&q