American songsmith Irving Berlin

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  • @catlover34fl
    @catlover34fl 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Never a mention of his first wife who died tragically after returning from their honeymoon in Cuba in 1911. He wrote the beautiful "When I Lost You" in 1912 for her. He wrote so many beautiful love songs, How Deep Is The Ocean; What'll I Do; Always; Remember; What Does It Matter; Blue Skies and so man other famous songs. All of them part of the great American Song Book.

  • @usycyakbmbk3709
    @usycyakbmbk3709 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Irving Berlin is my 1st cousin (4x removed) and I just love watching videos on him and seeing that people still talk about him even though he's virtually unknown to today's youth

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What a treasure of a man your cousin was, is, and always will be.

    • @alfredroberthogan
      @alfredroberthogan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How could anyone not know about the legendary Irving Berlin? Oy veh. Many of our young people are so ignorant on what matters--science, environment/climate, space, geography, animal rights veganism, history, and music/arts alas--so depressing. Paul M. Kaplan, the IT brother in NYC of my valued colleague ADK, has written an excellent bio book on Irving Berlin.

    • @ikwenmusic
      @ikwenmusic ปีที่แล้ว

      @@alfredroberthogan i can assure you its not just the young people lol

    • @imonthebox1148
      @imonthebox1148 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @usycyakbmbk3709, Hi im a huge fan of Irving Berlin's songs. I would love a chat with you about him. Could we discuss your first cousin away from here. please ?

  • @martinpictrusiewicz8506
    @martinpictrusiewicz8506 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    No one will ever sing God Bless America like Kate Smith

    • @catlover34fl
      @catlover34fl 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Amen. Beautiful and powerful voice.

  • @49lucky
    @49lucky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Oh my goodness I love all the songs...

  • @Scrumpetsheep
    @Scrumpetsheep 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Seeing Shulum sing god bless America makes me hopeful for our country

    • @bikerabbi
      @bikerabbi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That interview was 4 years ago in about 2020. As another Jewish boy sang, though, "The times they are a changing..." Hope for the best, prepare for the worst....

  • @AQuietNight
    @AQuietNight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The song Kate Smith sang was against racism but the intent was lost on anyone who
    didn't really listen to it.
    As for Irving Berlin, he was a music making machine.

  • @rhythmdroid
    @rhythmdroid ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Awesome mini-doc. Thanks for posting!

  • @leodegas1510
    @leodegas1510 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I needed this, thank you. It brought tears to my eyes. (My youth)
    God, please, in this year and time of division; remind the young and old, left and right of our past struggles and sacrifices that make the United States a country to love, to Stand beside and guide her
    Through the night with the light from above.

  • @lionheartroar3104
    @lionheartroar3104 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Wow,.I didn't realize he wrote over 1,000 songs. Love his music!

    • @SAVETHEKIDS-bn5zo
      @SAVETHEKIDS-bn5zo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Irving Berlin wrote over 3,000 songs!!!

  • @julesrose7738
    @julesrose7738 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Irving Berlin is a Musical Genius and a true Legend. A talented gifted Songwriter and Pianists, of the '20's, '30's and '40's, his songs were heard in Movies and home Pianos. My Mother, a trained Pianist from
    Classical to Jazz and Boogie Woogie, played many of Berlin's songs
    on our Grand Piano and I too, still love his Music.

  • @CrashboatAl
    @CrashboatAl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Indeed, Mr. Irving Berlin is responsible for making Christmas a wonderful time for everyone everywhere regardless of whether you are Christian or not. America has been blessed with many legal immigrants who have arrived legally to make America Great as Irving Berlin did. I have no doubt that he is surrounded by singing Angels as he plays the piano in Heavenly Peace.

  • @kathrynpowell7109
    @kathrynpowell7109 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    He wrote from the heart.

  • @rosemarieclair4498
    @rosemarieclair4498 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow! So much I did not know while all these years I’ve loved Irving Berlin’s songs. Thank you.

    • @pamtebelman2321
      @pamtebelman2321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Indeed, he was an incredibly gifted songwriter! So many of his songs have become standards and endure to this day.

  • @MelMelx365
    @MelMelx365 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    He wrote,"white Christmas" & "God bless America "? That's crazy!

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He also wrote 'Easter Parade'.

  • @albertopa58
    @albertopa58 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    God bless Irving Berlin.

  • @kristineb.mcanelly3304
    @kristineb.mcanelly3304 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of my heroes.

  • @HeatherValentineMsFoodie
    @HeatherValentineMsFoodie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    AMAZING!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ White Christmas and God bless America. I came here because of blue skies and Willie Nelson.😊

    • @bikerabbi
      @bikerabbi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Me too! It was my wife's z"l and my song.

  • @patriciastewart2239
    @patriciastewart2239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love love love

  • @simonettarocco6410
    @simonettarocco6410 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Up with Irving Berlin 💞🌹

    • @Juliaflo
      @Juliaflo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Copy that.

  • @SAVETHEKIDS-bn5zo
    @SAVETHEKIDS-bn5zo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “God Bless America” My favorite song!!!!

  • @rosaspanjol673
    @rosaspanjol673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He wrote God bless America! 😘Love it😘👍😘!

  • @stargazer5073
    @stargazer5073 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Yahoo, we need more grateful AMERICANS.

  • @MelMelx365
    @MelMelx365 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Fascinating, I didn't know

  • @patriotsforisrael3610
    @patriotsforisrael3610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    8:38 During World War II, about *550,000 Jews* served in the *United States Army* 🇺🇸, about *11,000* of whom fell in the fighting and tens of thousands were wounded. The relative share of Jews in the American army in this war was about 4.23% of all soldiers (higher than their share of the general population at that time which stood at about 3%).

  • @елена13кон
    @елена13кон ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Спасибо за интересную передачу.

  • @brendanolivieri4091
    @brendanolivieri4091 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    His piano is amazing

  • @StevenTorrey
    @StevenTorrey ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Berlin had a first wife who died prematurely.

  • @TheTrueOnyxRose
    @TheTrueOnyxRose 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What an amazing and complicated story .

  • @leemclaury6251
    @leemclaury6251 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Go’s bless Irving Berlin

  • @TroubledTrooper
    @TroubledTrooper ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Irving Berlin gave Groucho Marx a signed sheet music of his WW1 song "Stay Down Here Where You Belong", which had been inscribed to Groucho by him. He had jokingly told Groucho he would _give_ him a dollar for every time he didn't sing it 😂

  • @deaddeaddeaddeaddead5667
    @deaddeaddeaddeaddead5667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    mo rocca!

  • @milliemouse6525
    @milliemouse6525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have loved Irving Berlin since I was a child and listening to this story makes me weep because America is no longer the country we knew. What happened to the American that welcomed immigrants? I see a country filled with hate rooting for a bad facsimile of Hitler taking the place of a welcoming, do the right thing country 😢.

  • @thescoobymike
    @thescoobymike ปีที่แล้ว

    0:09 reporter sounds like Jimmy Stewart

  • @Spock_Rogers
    @Spock_Rogers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would love to see you do a segment on Maceo Pinkard!

  • @wexsalma4094
    @wexsalma4094 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That info and map regarding his birthplace is incorrect. He was born in Tolochin, not Tyumen

  • @shawnmichaelduncan5951
    @shawnmichaelduncan5951 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    God bless America should be American anthem

  • @frederickcombs8661
    @frederickcombs8661 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    YOU KNOW IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD WHEN KATE SMITH GETS CANCELLED.

  • @seano2533
    @seano2533 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A great songwriter. It’s unfortunate that Kate Smith has been cancelled. Singers in the 1930s didn’t always have control over their material and we can’t judge all actions in the past by today’s “woke” standards; otherwise there would be few historic artists and statesmen (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln etc.) left to admire. The left needs to stop its censorship and I’m speaking as a centrist Democrat.

  • @suzannederringer1607
    @suzannederringer1607 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Focus is too much on Berlin's Jewish identity. That's important - but he was primarily a man of the theater, and his songs gave expression to a great variety of American experience in his time - from comedy numbers to patriotic songs to lyrical romances.

  • @Marciestclair
    @Marciestclair 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Andy! I remember him from Laura osnes' vlogs. He loves jelly babies :D

  • @MichaelWill6138
    @MichaelWill6138 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a Black man and a Philadelphian, I hate that Kate Smith was banned. It’s not right. She did not oppress people

  • @РустамБакиев
    @РустамБакиев 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Этот чувак мой земляк, родился в г. Тобольске

  • @Octopusmaster
    @Octopusmaster 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Reason 1,112,233 to despise the Yankees with all my being.

  • @daveyhouston
    @daveyhouston 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My only criticism is his treatment of Elvis Presley's version of white christmas. it was wrong.

  • @MarcusAurelius7777
    @MarcusAurelius7777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    GO USA

  • @RichardRobinson-x2f
    @RichardRobinson-x2f 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lee Helen Lopez Kevin Taylor James

  • @Johnny-mp2ew
    @Johnny-mp2ew ปีที่แล้ว

    U

  • @oops4097
    @oops4097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    sus

    • @basil9069
      @basil9069 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ur mom sus

  •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The first 3/4 was great but then this clip turned into all about jewish/others and "God bless America" in a very odd way which I do not understand. I loved the first 3/4 but the end just blew it so I am voting /thumbsdown

    • @lestudio76
      @lestudio76 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Simon Grönlund Jewish/others is America. Berlin was Jewish and he wrote the song.

    • @FaveORitt
      @FaveORitt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Simon Grönlund Hi, nice to meet you, you filthy anti-semite!

    • @richarddixon7855
      @richarddixon7855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And making a point to disparage Kate Smith was unnecessary. She was just one of thousands of entertainers who sang/acted/used makeup in performances that are now embarrassingly inappropriate. I agree, this segment went off topic at the end.

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@richarddixon7855 Thanks

    • @AQuietNight
      @AQuietNight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@richarddixon7855 The song Smith sang was against racism.

  • @edwardluth7740
    @edwardluth7740 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    But all secular Stuff. No I’ll take Bach.

    • @suzannederringer1607
      @suzannederringer1607 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't compare apples and oranges. Both have their place in our cultural life.

  • @Wushutigercranekungfudragon
    @Wushutigercranekungfudragon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good riddance kate smith

    • @rhythmdroid
      @rhythmdroid ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And YOU would have been an angel back then, of course.