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# The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin

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## Customer Reviews

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    Only one side of a great songwriter
  

*by G***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2007*

The problem with pop-tune anthologies is that song lyrics have to be heard, not read, and only with their music.  Especially so with an Irving Berlin, who did nearly all his work for the theater and films, and for whom the presentation was as important as the song. (Picture "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody" without Ziegfeld's beauties -- impossible.)  And the fact is Berlin's lines could be flat-out flat-footedly corny.  "A melody mellow/Played on a cello" can only provoke giggles in those unfamiliar with the songs, which I fear is the norm these days; at his worst he's downright clueless.  (As in his proposed jingle for an unproduced NBC spectacular: "Everybody step,/Have a drink of Coca-Cola -- /It's the finest pepperola...."  Pepsi-Cola?)  But this is the problem with comprehensiveness.  There are too many "rag" songs and "coon" songs and "step-step-step" songs, too many singing musical notes and dancing edibles, too much high-flown love treacle, too little of the poetry and wit that marked golden-age pop songwriting at its finest.  Even the most interesting ones like "Sadie Salome (Go Home)", fresh with their impudent suggestiveness, can only hint at their marvels.  And the chronological layout inevitably sets up the drab finish of the decades of verbal noodling, reclusion and despair.  Yes he wrote catchy tunes in the early days, but Berlin didn't really come into his own until late, with his thirties revues, and the Fred-and-Ginger scores, and "Holiday Inn", and "This is the Army", and "Easter Parade", and his one true masterpiece, "Annie Get Your Gun." These are works to be savored, not anthologized.  And it took a special talent to bring out Berlin's real measure: listen to Blue Eyes and TD and their larger-than-life rendition of "Be Careful, It's My Heart" to know it.  Moreover Red Norvo's "Remember" and Les Brown's "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" and the sumptuous instrumental "New Amsterdam Roof" from "Easter Parade" (on the Rhino soundtrack album) make the strong case that Berlin is at his best without words.That said, there can be no doubting the completeness, the care, the diligence that went into this collection (even if the phrase "No music is known to survive" gets a little tiresome), the obvious love and respect for this show-biz titan.  Alas, perhaps the only way to appreciate his greatness is to go back in time to experience it, a further frustration of books like this.

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    Words, Words, Words
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2013*

This massive book contains every word that Irving Berlin wrote for his songs.  He wrote oddles and gobs of songs so this book is big and heavy.  The music is not included.  Have i read every word of this book?  No- and I should live long enough to hear every song sung.  I do look forward to looking at this book whenever I look at a movie where his songs are used and when I listen to a CD of his songs.  I know I will have years of happy useage of this book.  There is no better book of his lyrics

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Robert Kimball is the best in these Great Songbook anthologies
  

*by S***X on Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2017*

Robert Kimball is the best in these Great Songbook anthologies.  Thank you sir.  I especially like the ephemera, notably his jotted doggerel to fellow composers.  He was one of the few that wrote words and music together.  Cole Porter was the other one from that era, followed by Frank Loesser, then Steven Sondheim.  It's rare to be equally talented in both words and music.

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