Music of the United States of America

Irving Berlin
Early Songs, 1907-1914
Edited by Charles Hamm
 

A 20/MU 2A	ISBN 0-89579-305-9	(1994) xlix+247 pp.	$125.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-305-8 (13-digit)
A 21/MU 2B	ISBN 0-89579-340-7	(1994) x+359 pp.	$150.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-340-9 (13-digit)
A 22/MU 2C	ISBN 0-89579-341-5	(1994) x+289 pp.	$125.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-341-6 (13-digit)
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A20-22 / MU2ABC	Set of three volumes		$360.00

This new edition contains over 200 songs composed between 1907 and 1914 by the famous Tin Pan Alley composer, including numerous previously unpublished works. The extensive introduction is an excellent survey of Irving Berlin's early work.

Although some of these volumes are now out of print, sheet music for many of the songs in all three volumes can be purchased on demand online at http://www.musicnotes.com. (6/28/02)

". . . No library with a popular music collection of any size can afford to be without this first-rate publication of fascinating (and for the most part unfamiliar) music." Geoffrey Block, Notes, June 1997. 

Music Sample(A20 / MU2A)
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Contents 

Part I: 1907-1911 (A 20)

Irving Berlin and Early Tin Pan Alley, by Charles Hamm

Marie from Sunny Italy; Queenie; The Best of Friends Must Part; I Didn't Go Home at All; Dorando; No One Could Do It Like My Father!; Sadie Salome (Go Home); My Wife's Gone to the Country (Hurrah! Hurrah!); Just Like the Rose; Oh, What I Know about You; Someone's Waiting for Me (We'll Wait, Wait, Wait); Do Your Duty Doctor! (Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Doctor); Good-bye, Girlie, and Remember Me; Wild Cherries; Oh! Where Is My Wife To-night?; She Was a Dear Little Girl; Some Little Something about You; If I Thought You Wouldn't Tell; I Wish That You Was My Gal, Molly; Next to Your Mother, Who Do You Love?; Stop That Rag (Keep On Playing, Honey); Christmas-time Seems Years and Years Away; Yiddle, on Your Fiddle, Play Some Ragtime; I Just Came Back to Say Good Bye; Before I Go and Marry, I Will Have a Talk with You; That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune; Someone Just Like You; Telling Lies; Sweet Marie, Make-a Rag-a-time Dance wid Me; If the Managers Only Thought the Same As Mother; Oh How That German Could Love; When You Play That Piano, Bill!; Draggy Rag; Dear Mayme, I Love You!; Grizzly Bear; Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon; That Opera Rag; I'm a Happy Married Man; I Love You More Each Day; Alexander and His Clarinet; Sweet Italian Love; Oh, That Beautiful Rag; Try It on Your Piano; "Thank You, Kind Sir!" Said She; Yiddisha Eyes; Is There Anything Else I Can Do for You?; Kiss Me My Honey, Kiss Me; Colored Romeo; Stop, Stop, Stop (Come Over and Love Me Some More); Herman Let's Dance That Beautiful Waltz; Piano Man; Innocent Bessie Brown; Dreams, Just Dreams; I'm Going on a Long Vacation; Bring Back My Lena to Me; That Kazzatsky Dance; Wishing; Dat's-a My Gal; That Dying Rag; Alexander's Ragtime Band

Part II: 1911-1913 (A 21)
Virginia Lou; The Whistling Rag; That Monkey Tune; When I'm Alone I'm Lonesome; I Beg Your Pardon, Dear Old Broadway; When You're in Town; Business Is Business; Spanish Love; Down to the Folies Bergere; When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains; Don't Put Out the Light; Molly, O! Oh, Molly!; When You Kiss an Italian Girl; Ephraham Played upon the Piano; You've Built a Fire Down in My Heart; Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree!; Run Home and Tell Your Mother; After the Honeymoon; That Mysterious Rag; One O'Clock in the Morning I Get Lonesome; There's a Girl in Havana; Don't Take Your Beau to the Seashore; Dog Gone That Chilly Man; Ragtime Violin!; Yiddisha Nightingale; My Melody Dream; You've Got Me Hypnotized; Everybody's Doing It Now; Bring Back My Lovin' Man; Sombrero Land; Cuddle Up; Bring Me a Ring in the Spring and I'll Know That You Love Me; He Promised Me; Meet Me To-night; Yankee Love; How Do You Do It, Mabel, on Twenty Dollars a Week?; Pick, Pick, Pick, Pick on the Mandolin, Antonio; I Want to Be in Dixie; Take a Little Tip from Father; Ragtime Mocking Bird; Alexander's Bag-pipe Band; Opera Burlesque; Spring and Fall; I've Got to Have Some Lovin' Now; Society Bear; Lead Me to That Beautiful Band; Antonio; That's How I Love You; I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid; The Million Dollar Ball; A True Born Soldier Man; Becky's Got a Job in a Musical Show; The Ragtime Jockey Man; When Johnson's Quartette Harmonize; Fiddle-Dee-Dee [I]; Call Again!; Fiddle-Dee-Dee [II]; The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up!; Ragtime Soldier Man; Keep Away from the Fellow Who Owns an Automobile; When I'm Thinking of You; Come Back to Me, My Melody; Do It Again; A Little Bit of Everything; Hiram's Band; When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'; When I Lost You; My Sweet Italian Man [I]; Down in My Heart; At the Devil's Ball [I]; Follow Me Around; If All the Girls I Knew Were Like You; At the Devil's Ball [II]; Wait until Your Daddy Comes Home; Don't Leave Your Wife Alone; Yiddisha Professor; Goody, Goody, Goody, Goody, Good; He's So Good to Me; At the Devil's Ball [III]; At the Picture Show

Part III: 1913-1914 and Appendix (A 22)
Anna 'Liza's Wedding Day; Welcome Home; In My Harem; My Sweet Italian Man [II]; Snookey Ookums; The Apple Tree and the Bumble Bee; San Francisco Bound; You Picked a Bad Day Out to Say Good-bye; Happy Little Country Girl; We Have Much to Be Thankful For; The Ki-I-Youdleing Dog; Keep on Walking; The Old Maids Ball; The Pullman Porters on Parade; Abie Sings an Irish Song; The Monkey Doodle Doo; Somebody's Coming to My House; I Was Aviating Around; They've Got Me Doin' It Now; Jake! Jake! The Yiddisher Ball-player; The International Rag; Kiss Your Sailor Boy Goodbye; Take Me Back; They've Got Me Doin' It Now Medley; You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes! There's a Girl in Arizona; If You Don't Want Me (Why Do You Hang Around); Tra-La, La, La!; Down in Chattanooga; Daddy, Come Home; This Is the Life [I]; Follow the Crowd; It Isn't What He Said, but the Way He Said It!; I Love to Quarrel with You; He's a Devil in His Own Home Town; This Is the Life [II]; Along Came Ruth; If I Had You; If You Don't Want My Peaches (You'd Better Stop Shaking My Tree); God Gave You to Me; They're on Their Way to Mexico; The Haunted House; I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm); If That's Your Idea of a Wonderful Time (Take Me Home); Always Treat Her Like a Baby; He's a Rag Picker; Furnishing a Home for Two; Stay Down Here Where You Belong; That's My Idea of Paradise; When It's Night Time in Dixie Land; It Can't Be Did!; Angelo; How Can You Love Such a Man?; What Am I Gonna Do?; The Funny Little Melody; Revival Day; Hey, Wop; Down on Uncle Jerry's Farm; I Could Live on Love and Kisses; I Want a Harem of My Own; I've Got a Lot of Love for You; I've Got to Catch a Train, Goodbye; Somewhere (But Where Is It?); The Tattooed Man; You're Goin' to Lose Your Baby Some Day; That Humming Rag; Father's Beard; Alexander's Ragtime Band. March and Twostep; That International Rag! March and Twostep; Morning Exercise Fox Trot; Wild Cherries Rag; Grizzly Bear Rag; Oh That Beautiful Rag; That Mysterious Rag. Characteristic Intermezzo

See the article on this set in Embellishments 3.

UPDATED 28 June 2002.