By Fred Bronson People sang around Christmastime as early as the year 129 A.D. and created Latin hymns for the season by the ...
Merriam-Webster defines patriotism as a “love for or devotion to one’s country.” While people often link patriotism to ...
was a massive success for Berlin, earning him his one and only Academy Award for Best Original Song. Fun Fact #3! Upon completing the song, Irving Berlin called out to his secretary at the time ...
The Story of an American Song by Jody Rosen' is an intriguing and insightful look at the story behind a holiday classic.
A soldier in the battlefield longing to be home for Christmas inspired the great composer Irving Berlin to write White ...
Irving Berlin was a Jewish immigrant who loved America. As his 1938 song “God Bless America” suggests, he believed deeply in ...
About the Album: At the time Ben Bagley did Irving Berlin Revisited, it was not so easy to gain access to Mr. Berlin's trunk. But the song choices Bagley came up with were lesser-known Berlin ...
The song’s writer, Izzy Baline, the former singing waiter from New York’s Chinatown, was born Israel Berlin in Belarus; he later became Irving Berlin, one of America’s greatest ever songwriters.
Irving Haberman/IH Images via Getty Images Irving Berlin was a Jewish immigrant who loved America. As his 1938 song “God Bless America” suggests, he believed deeply in the nation’s potential ...
White Christmas is one of the most famous songs of all time, but not everyone knows the moving story behind the words, or how much it meant to servicemen during the Second World War ...