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"This Is the life!" : the breakthrough years: 1909-1921
- 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
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio | Use in library | CD27878 | Off-site |
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- 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
- Subject
- 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