Irvy writes a good song with a good lyric. Irving Berlin is a Jewboy who named himself after an English actor and a German city. Cohan was there to hear it, in fact, making a speech welcoming Berlin into membership: Freedland claims (without documentation and contrary to other accounts) that this was the first time the words to the song were heard in public. Michael Freedland, Irving Berlin, New York: Stein and Day, 1974.Īlthough Berlin's biographer Laurence Bergreen, and the scholarly team of Robert Kimball and Linda Emmet give different accounts of the evolution of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" from Irving Berlin's mind to the song we all know, Michael Freedland, in his 1974 biography of the composer traces the song's path through a performance at the Friars Club in New York City on the occasion of Berlin's induction into the organization at the Hotel Astor in the sprint of 1911. "Alexander's Ragtime Band," with Axel Stordahl and his orchestra, c.
(4 CD / 100+ track set of Sinatra on the radioįrank Sinatra and Irving Berlin gab on Frank's radio showĪnd perform together one of the composer's earliest songs: Click here for complete film data at IMDB.
Titanic (2002) song played in background by Salonistii. There's No Business Like Show Business (1954) song performed by Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, et. Movies in which "Alexander's Ragtime Band" has been featured.Īlexander's Ragtime Band, 1938 ( movie) performed by Performed by Alice Faye with Tyrone Power on violin, Don Ameche on piano, Source: Joel Whitburn, Pop Memories, 1890-1954, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research Inc., 1986.įor later recordings, see the Cafe Songbook Record/Video Cabinet.Īrthur Collins (baritone) and Byron Harlan (tenor), 1911 (1) Bill Murray, 1911 (2) Prince's Orchestra, 1912 (3) Victor Military Band, 1912 (4) Bessie Smith, 1927 (17) Boswell Sisters, 1935 (9) Louis Armstrong, 1937 (12) Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell, 1938 (1). Pretty much everyone agrees that the song received its first proper performance, the one that started it off on the road to immortality, from Emma Carus when she sang it (or as has been reported, "belted it out") on April 17, 1911, at the Big Easter Vaudeville Carnival at Chicago's American Music Hall. The song was published and copyrighted, March 18, 1911. The points of agreement include that Berlin wrote or at least began to write the melody in 1910 but the lyric was not completed until the winter of 1911.
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