While the song conveyed a more secular approach to the holiday season than other Christmas songs at the time, it still rose to popularity over the next year as young American troops got deployed for ...

It’s one of Irving Berlin’s most famous and beloved songs, and so iconic in this country as to resonate like a national anthem. But one which is more singable than our official one, and with more ...

Songs aid memorization. When I was in fourth grade in Indiana in the 1970s, our music teacher, Miss Burke, taught us to sing “Fifty Nifty United States.” Like everyone else in my class, I was able ...

Nat King Cole lit up the room with him with "Blue Skies"; Judy Garland broke hearts with him with "What'll I Do"; and Fred Astaire danced to him, as did Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle (sort of), with ...

The sight of Terri Nunn’s signature two-tone blonde-and-black hair is reassuring. Forty-five years into her professional career, the unforgettable frontperson of new wave stalwarts Berlin is still ...

I Love a Piano: The Music of Irving Berlin This ditty-crammed tuner is one of only two shows authorized to use the massive Irving Berlin song catalog. Scripter team of Ray Roderick and Michael ...

It might seem unusual, or even masochistic, to ask your ex-boyfriend to yell toxic male insults at you, let alone capture such barbs in a recording studio for posterity. But that’s just what Terri ...

I have always been dubious of the idea of “American Culture.” America, being, since its inception, a land of immigrants constantly in demographic and ethnic flux. And this is a good thing, indeed, the ...

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