Audio Clips

White Christmas

Performed by: Bing Crosby
From Bing Crosby: Academy Award Winners & Nominees (MCA/Decca 108 112 274-2, 2000)
Recorded May 29, 1942
With John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers.

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

Performed by: Irving Berlin
From Irving Sings Berlin (Koch International 3-7410-2, 2001)
Recorded 1942, Armed Forces Radio
Performed with the cast members of This Is the Army.

God Bless America

Performed by: Irving Berlin
From Irving Sings Berlin (Koch International 3-7410-2, 2001)
Recorded 1939, NBC Studios

Just One Way to Say I Love You

Performed by: Irving Berlin
From Irving Sings Berlin (Koch International 3-7410-2, 2001)
Recorded 1949

Sing a Song of Sing Sing

Performed by: Irving Berlin
From Irving Sings Berlin (Koch International 3-7410-2, 2001)
Recorded 1949

Alexander’s Rag Time Band

Performed by: Irving Berlin
From Irving Sings Berlin (Koch International 3-7410-2, 2001)
Recorded 1939, NBC radio

Follow the Crowd

Performed by: Irving Berlin
From Irving Sings Berlin (Koch International 3-7410-2, 2001)
Recorded 1914

What Can a Songwriter Say?

Performed by: Irving Berlin
From Irving Sings Berlin (Koch International 3-7410-2, 2001)
Recorded 1938, 50th Birthday tribute to Irving Berlin, CBS Radio

You Keep Coming Back Like a Song

Performed by: Bing Crosby
From Bing Crosby: Academy Award Winners & Nominees (MCA/Decca 108 112 274-2, 2000)
Recorded July 18, 1946
With John Scott and His Orchestra.

Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep

Performed by: Bing Crosby
From Bing Crosby: Academy Award Winners & Nominees (MCA/Decca 108 112 274-2, 2000)
Recorded May 4, 1954
With Joseph J. Lilley and His Orchestra.

How Deep Is The Ocean

Performed by: Ella Fitzgerald
From Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book (Verve Music Group 314 543 830-2. 2000)
Recorded March 17, 1958, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
With Paul Weston's Orchestra.

Cheek to Cheek

Performed by: Ella Fitzgerald
From Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book (Verve Music Group 314 543 830-2. 2000)
Recorded March 18, 1958, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
With Paul Weston's Orchestra.

Blue Skies

Performed by: Frank Sinatra
From The Best of the Columbia Years (Columbia/Legacy C4K 65620, 1995)
Recorded July 30, 1946

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

From Let's Do It: Louis Armstrong the Best of the Verve Years (Verve Records 314 529 017-2, 1995)
Recorded August 13, 1957, Los Angeles

Easter Parade

From The Complete Irving Berlin Songbooks: Cheek to Cheek (Verve Records 314 533 829-2, 1997)
Recorded April 24, 1957, Los Angeles
With The Bobby Tucker Orchestra.

Puttin’ On the Ritz

Performed by: Fred Astaire
From The Complete Irving Berlin Songbooks: Cheek to Cheek (Verve Records 314 533 829-2, 1997)
Recorded December 1952, Hollywood
With Charlie Shavers, Flip Phillis, Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, Alvin Stoller.

Always

Performed by: Billie Holiday
From Lady Sings the Blues (Verve Music Group 314 521 429-2, 1995)
Recorded February 14, 1955, Fine Sound, NYC

It Only Happens When I Dance With You

Performed by: Frank Sinatra
From Frank Sinatra: My Shining Hour (Drive Entertainment, Inc. DE2-41010, 1994)
Recorded 1940's

Say It Isn’t So

Performed by: Sarah Vaughan
From Sarah Vaughan: Verve Jazz Masters 18 (Polygram Records, Inc. 314 518 199-2, 1994)
Recorded July 21, 1963, Copenhagen

Let Me Sing and I’m Happy

Performed by: Al Jolson
From A Portrait of Al Jolson (Demon Music Group GALE 452, 2000)