I Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the Y.M.C.A. How Do You Do It, Mabel, On Twenty Dollars a Week? He's Getting Too Darn Big for a One-Horse Town He Played It on his Fid, Fid, Fiddle-De-Dee Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor (Emma Lazarus)
Getting Nowhere (Running Around In Circles) Name of song with link to article (if available)Īfter You Get What You Want, You Don't Want ItĪnything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) īefore I Go and Marry I Will Have a Talk with YouĬhase All Your Cares and Go to Sleep, BabyĬhristmas Time Seems Years and Years Awayĭance with Me (Tonight at the Mardi Gras)ĭo You Believe Your Eyes, or Do You Believe Your Baby?Įlevator Man, Going Up! Going Up! Going Up!Įveryone in the World Is Doing the Charleston This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. President, Call Me Madam and Annie Get Your Gun. Many of Berlin's songs were included in the seventeen complete scores he wrote for Broadway musicals and revues, including The Cocoanuts, As Thousands Cheer, Louisiana Purchase, Miss Liberty, Mr. The list is incomplete but gives a sense of Berlin's evolution as a songwriter over a period of decades.Īccording to the New York Public Library, whose Irving Berlin collection comprises 550 non-commercial recordings radio broadcasts, live performances, and private recordings, he published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907 and had his first major international hit, " Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. This list gives the year each song was written, or alternatively groups each song into a five-year period. This is not a complete list, given that he wrote hundreds more songs than the ones listed here. Of these, 25 tunes reached #1 on the pop charts. Sources vary as to the number of songs actually written by Berlin, but a 2001 article in TIME put the figure at around 1,250. Furthermore, you can click on the last column to bring to the top those songs that have Wikipedia articles about them.
You may also click twice at the top of the "click to play" column, to bring those items to the top of the list. It is arranged in alphabetical order, but can be rearranged in chronological order by clicking at the top of that column. Allen returns from Afghanistan in March.This article is a list of songs written by Irving Berlin. More than 70,000 people have watched it online. "For a military that's willing and ready to leave their families to serve their fellow Americans, it's all those little things that are hardest to deal with when you leave home," he said. He hopes his Christmas song "will help people understand that though we're willing to do it," it's still heartbreaking." He is one of thousands of men and women deployed this holiday season. The son of an Air Force mechanic, Allen joined the Marines at age 22. "When the days are rough and things don't feel like they are going to get any better or he's never going to make it home, I have the video now," Carla said.
The Allen's children Aaron, Aidan and Lainie are being strong, but they and Carla are counting down the days until Robert returns. "Holidays are very hard on them overseas as well as the ones here back home," Neet said. "Very talented, very good, he's a good warrior," Denise Neet, Carla's mother.ĭenise says Robert is passionate about his job, currently providing ground support for a NATO combat wing.
Carla's mother, who lives in Pawnee, says she wasn't surprised by her son-in-law's Christmas song. Robert started playing when Carla gave him her stepfather's old guitar. "He appreciated what I do as a military wife and that he understood that him being gone is hard," she said. The lyrics about wearing a smile while he's gone got to her. "He sent it to me as a Christmas gift and I cried, I was surprised," said Carla Allen, Robert Allen's wifeĪllen's wife, Carla, and their three kids now live in Yuma, Arizona, where he's stationed. "My wife can't stand it at all when I leave, but she understands what I do," Allen said in an interview with the Department of Defense. This year, his wife and three kids are again without their favorite Marine as he serves in Afghanistan. Master Sergeant Robert Allen wrote the song during a holiday season spent overseas in Iraq. A Pawnee native serving overseas recorded 'The Marine's Christmas Song' for his wife back home - and for military families everywhere who are separated from a loved one. A Pawnee native serving overseas recorded a song for his wife back home - and for military families everywhere who are separated from a loved one this Christmas.
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