Irving Berlin fans-what are your favorite lesser known gems? — Page 2

never would have thought so, but lucy arnez's version of Irvings "ill meet you in c-u-b-a"

is really really good! (channeling papa..babaloo!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gf7roJPEOw

Mister Matt said: "I don't know if it's considered "lesser-known", but my favorite Berlin song:

You're Just in Love - Call Me Madam"

hi mister matt-this is a fantastic song and thank you for bringing it to my attention

. it probably is in the better known category, given three separate artists scored on the singles charts with it including a top 5(Perry Como Fontaine singers). its also one of three well known berlin songs thats in counterpoint, with a second singer singing different lyrics in a different key. best known other true counterpoint berlin songs being Play a Simple Melody and "An Old-Fashioned Wedding" (see the 1966 revival of Annie Get Your Gun). Berlin also made brilliant use of counterpoint in "Pack Up Your Sins (And Go To The Devil)," a song composed for the Music Box Revue of 1922.

hmmm who later mastered counterpoint in many of his finest musical masterpieces, and who used it long ago in all their operettas?

Updated On: 11/3/16 at 01:42 PM

I'm very partial to "Take It In Your Stride," the so-called "jump song" cut from ANNIE GET YOUR GUN that was included in the first Lost in Boston collection

Moonshine Lullaby WAS on Annie Get Your Gun's original cast album.

The numbers Decca didn't record were Colonel Buffalo Bill, I'm a Bad, Bad Man, and I'll Share It All With You.

Among lesser known Berlin songs, Kaye Ballard sings a very funny version of Mister President's They Love Me on a studio cast of the show. She actually finds more jokes in the piece than Nanette Fabray did.

Speaking of those Berlin counterpoint songs, Miss Liberty's opening number was in that style. Called Extra, Extra, it showed newsboys and newspaper readers setting the scene for the newspaper war that sets the plot in motion. It's not on the cast album, and to my knowledge has never been recorded.

Updated On: 12/4/16 at 02:10 AM

broadwaysfguy said: "...
Any other berlin that you truly love?





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There are, but I don't always know the name of the song.

I very much like "It's A Lovely Day Today" from CALL ME MADAM. I have no idea how much of a hit it was in the early 1950s.

I too love "Sisters".

There's also a song that goes:

"We joined the Navy to see the world.
And what did we see? We saw the sea."

I'm not sure if the title is "We Saw the Sea" or "We Joined the Navy", but it's a great example of Berlin being charming with what we would now call "Dad jokes".

For Melania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7crLvHmXVAY