Research Catalog

Title

"This Is the life!" : the breakthrough years: 1909-1921 / Irving Berlin.

Author

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989

Publication

• Brooklyn, NY : New World Records, [2015]
• ℗2015

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Boerckel, Bernadette
• Marcus, Daniel, 1955-
• Pleasant, Edward
• Hill, Heather (Soprano)
• Carle, Tom
• Benjamin, Rick
• Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989.
• Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, instrumentalist. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/itr
• Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., publisher. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Description

1 audio disc (68 min., 19 sec.) : digital, CD audio; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

• Works.
• Breakthrough years: 1909-1921

Subjects

• Revues
• Popular music
• Chamber music
• Dance music
• Foxtrots (Music)
• Ragtime music
• Excerpts
• Instrumental ensembles, Arranged
• Songs > Instrumental settings
• Songs (High voice) with piano
• Foxtrots
• Revues > Excerpts
• Popular music > 1911-1920
• Popular music > 1901-1910
• 1901-1920

Genre/Form

• Popular music.
• Revues.
• Songs.
• Excerpts.
• Ragtime music.
• Foxtrots (Music)
• Dance music.
• Chamber music.

Note

• Popular songs, dance music, and excerpts from musical revues; includes one art song and several instrumental arrangements of popular songs.
• Title from disc label.
• "World-premiere recordings of original period orchestrations"--Container.
• Program notes by the conductor, biographical notes on the composer and performers, and discographical and bibliographical references (39 pages : portraits) inserted in container.

Language (note)

• Sung and spoken in English.

Contents

Everybody's doin' it now : (turkey trot, 1911) (2:43) -- I love a piano : (song from Stop!Look!Listen!, 1915) (3:05) -- Oh! How I hate to get up in the morning! : (song from Yip, yip, Yaphank!, 1918) (2:09) -- Tell me, little gypsy : (from Ziegfeld's Follies of 1920) (3:00) -- Play a simple melody : (duet from Watch your step, 1914) (2:20) -- Nobody knows : (and nobody seems to care) (fox trot, 1919) (2:24) -- Overture to Watch your step : (1914) (7:55) -- Say it with music : (theme of the Music box revue, 1921) (3:10) -- Smile and show your dimple : (one-step, 1918) (1:27) -- My melody dream : (a song poem, 1911) (2:36) -- When I lost you : (waltz, 1912) (3:22) -- This is the life! : (song, 1914) (2:32) -- A pretty girl is like a melody : (theme of Ziegfeld's Follies of 1919) (2:16) -- Alexander's ragtime band : (song, 1911) (2:24) -- Home again blues : (1920) (1:44) -- You'd be surprised : (song from Ziegfeld's Follies of 1919) (3:44) -- That mesmerizing Mendelssohn tune : (song, 1909) (2:46) -- The girls of my dreams : (from Ziegfeld's Follies of 1920) (2:56) -- The international rag : (duet, 1913) (3:15) -- When I leave the world behind : (ballad, 1915) (4:39) -- Finale to Act II : ("Opera medley") from Watch your step (1914) (7:10).

LCCN

• 00093228077329
• 093228077329

OCLC

• ocn929618362
• 929618362
• SCSB-13644865

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries