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Born Israel Isidore Baline, in Tyumen, Siberia, he emigrated to the United States in 1893 with the rest of his family. Following the death of his father in 1896, Irving found himself having to work to survive. He did various street jobs including selling newspapers and busking. The harsh economic reality of having to work or starve was to have a lasting effect on the way Berlin treated money. In 1911 the song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" launched a musical career that would span over a thousand songs including many hit Broadway musicals.
Irving Berlin's first credited song lyrics were for "Marie from Sunny Italy" in 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis, the year he changed his name. He was paid 37 cents for this song.
In 1917Events January 2 The Royal Bank of Canada takes over Quebec Bank. January 22 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. January 25 The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million January 25 Anti- during World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of, while he staged a musical revue Yip Yip YaphankYip Yip Yaphank was the name of musical revue composed and produced by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1917 while he was a recruit in the United States Army at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York. The musical, as well as the fictionalized story of its pro while at Camp UptonThe area of central Suffolk County, New York presently occupied by Brookhaven National Laboratory once served the nation in a different manner. It was the site of the U. Army's Camp Upton, which was active from 1917 until 1920, and again from 1940 until 1 in Yaphank, New YorkYaphank is a census-designated place located in Suffolk County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 5,025. Geography Yaphank is located at 40°50'7" North, 72°55'45" West (40. 835277, -72. According to the United States Censu. The revue was a patriotric tribute to the United States ArmyThe Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. As of fiscal year 2002 (FY02), it consisted of 480,000 soldiers on active duty and 555,000 in reserve (350,000 in Army National G. Berlin composed the song " God Bless AmericaGod Bless America is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 and revised by him in 1938. It is sometimes considered an unofficial national anthem of the United States. Berlin originally wrote the song in 1918 while serving in the US Ar" for the revue but decided against using it. The revue was later included in the 1943 movie This Is the Army featuring other Berlin songs, including the famous title piece, as well as a full-length rendition of "God Bless America" by Kate Smith.
He was responsible for many Hollywood film scores including Top Hat ( 1935) as well as songs such as " White Christmas" from the film Holiday Inn ( 1942). Berlin was equally as prolific on Broadway, where he is perhaps best known for Annie Get Your Gun ( 1946), although he stopped writing after the failure of Mr President in 1962.
His friend and fellow songwriter Jule Styne said of him:
In spite of his musical career, Berlin never learned how to play a piano or read music beyond a rudimentary level. He owned a special piano that mechanically transposed keys and an assistant wrote out the music scores.
Becoming a virtual recluse in his last years, Berlin didn't attend the 100th birthday party held in his honor.
He was married twice. His first wife, singer Dorothy Goetz , sister of songwriter E. Ray Goetz , died of pneumonia and typhoid fever, contracted on their honeymoon to Cuba and five months after their wedding in 1912; she was 20 years old. (Her death inspired Berlin's song "When I Lost You," which became one of his earliest hits. Curiously, a year before Dorothy Berlin's death, Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, and Ted Snyder cowrote a song called "There's a Girl in Havana.") His second wife was Ellin Mackay , a Catholic heiress to the Comstock Lode mining fortune as well as a writer who was published in " The New Yorker". They were married in 1936 and had three daughters -- Mary Ellin, Linda, and Elizabeth, all of whom were raised Protestant -- and a son, Irving Berlin, Jr., who died before he was one.
Irving Berlin died of a heart attack in New York City at the age of 101 and was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York.
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