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Table of Contents:

• Everybody's doin' it now : (turkey trot, 1911) (2:43)
• I love a piano : (song from Stop!Look!Listen!, 1915) (3:05)
• Oh! How I hate to get up in the morning! : (song from Yip, yip, Yaphank!, 1918) (2:09)
• Tell me, little gypsy : (from Ziegfeld's Follies of 1920) (3:00)
• Play a simple melody : (duet from Watch your step, 1914) (2:20)
• Nobody knows : (and nobody seems to care) (fox trot, 1919) (2:24)
• Overture to Watch your step : (1914) (7:55)
• Say it with music : (theme of the Music box revue, 1921) (3:10)
• Smile and show your dimple : (one-step, 1918) (1:27)
• My melody dream : (a song poem, 1911) (2:36)
• When I lost you : (waltz, 1912) (3:22)
• This is the life! : (song, 1914) (2:32)
• A pretty girl is like a melody : (theme of Ziegfeld's Follies of 1919) (2:16)
• Alexander's ragtime band : (song, 1911) (2:24)
• Home again blues : (1920) (1:44)
• You'd be surprised : (song from Ziegfeld's Follies of 1919) (3:44)
• That mesmerizing Mendelssohn tune : (song, 1909) (2:46)
• The girls of my dreams : (from Ziegfeld's Follies of 1920) (2:56)
• The international rag : (duet, 1913) (3:15)
• When I leave the world behind : (ballad, 1915) (4:39)

• Finale to Act II : ("Opera medley") from Watch your step (1914) (7:10).

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Author/Creator:

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989 , composer, lyricist

Contributors:

Boerckel, Bernadette , singer

Marcus, Daniel, 1955- , singer

Pleasant, Edward , singer

Hill, Heather (Soprano) , singer

Carle, Tom , singer

Scott, Diane , instrumentalist

Benjamin, Rick , conductor, instrumentalist

Lormand, Michael , instrumentalist

Murphy, Paul , instrumentalist

Paragon Ragtime Orchestra , instrumentalist, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/itr

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Sung and spoken in English.

Main Work:

"This Is the life!": the breakthrough years: 1909-1921 [by Berlin, I.]

Included Works:

Everybody's doing it now [by Berlin, I.] (arranged)

Stop! look! listen! [by Berlin, I.] > I love a piano

Yip, yip, Yaphank [by Berlin, I.] > Oh! How I hate to get up in the morning

Tell me, little gypsy [by Berlin, I.] (arranged)

Watch your step [by Berlin, I.] > Simple melody

Nobody knows [by Berlin, I.] (arranged)

Watch your step [by Berlin, I.] > Overture

Music Box revue [by Berlin, I.] > (1921) > Say it with music

Smile and show your dimple [by Berlin, I.] (arranged)

My melody dream [by Berlin, I.]

When I lost you [by Berlin, I.] (arranged)

This is the life [by Berlin, I.]

Pretty girl is like a melody [by Berlin, I.] (arranged)

Alexander's ragtime band [by Berlin, I.]

Home again blues [by Berlin, I.] (arranged)

You'd be surprised [by Berlin, I.]

That mesmerizing Mendelssohn tune [by Berlin, I.]

Girls of my dreams [by Berlin, I.] (arranged)

International rag [by Berlin, I.]

When I leave the world behind [by Berlin, I.]

Watch your step [by Berlin, I.] > Opera medley

Subjects:

Popular music — 1901-1910

Popular music — 1911-1920

Revues — Excerpts

Ragtime music

Foxtrots

Songs (High voice) with piano

Songs — Instrumental settings

Instrumental ensembles, Arranged

1901-1920

Revues

Songs

Popular music

Genres:

Popular music

Revues

Songs

Excerpts

Ragtime music

Foxtrots (Music)

Dance music

Chamber music

Instrumental settings

Performers:

Bernadette Boerckel, soprano (tracks 5, 10, 14, 19-21), comedienne (track 17) ; Daniel Marcus, tenor (tracks 2, 5, 19, 21), comedian (tracks 12, 16) ; Edward Pleasant, baritone (tracks 3, 8, 21) ; Heather Hill, soprano (track 21) ; Thomas Carle, tenor (track 21) ; The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra (Caroline Chin, Bryony Stroud-Watson, violins ; Thomas Rosenthal, viola ; Jonathan Dexter, cello ; Troy Rinker, double bass ; Leslie Cullen, flute, piccolo ; Vasko Dukovski, clarinet ; Paul Murphy, Michael Blutman, cornet ; Michael Lormand, trombone ; Taylor Arthur Goodson, drums, percussion ; Diane Scott, piano) ; Rick Benjamin, conductor, piano (track 10).

Production Credits:

Produced and engineered by Judith Sherman.

Performance Medium:

1 ensemble: instrumental ensemble
2 performers and 1 ensemble: solo tenor voice; solo piano; instrumental ensemble
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo baritone voice; instrumental ensemble
2 performers and 1 ensemble: solo soprano voice; solo tenor voice; instrumental ensemble
2 performers: solo soprano voice; piano
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo trombone; instrumental ensemble
2 performers and 1 ensemble: solo cornet; solo piano; instrumental ensemble
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo soprano voice; instrumental ensemble
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo tenor voice; instrumental ensemble
5 performers and 1 ensemble: solo soprano voice (2); solo tenor voice (2); solo baritone voice; instrumental ensemble
1 ensemble: instrumental ensemble
2 performers and 1 ensemble: solo tenor voice; solo piano; instrumental ensemble
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo baritone voice; instrumental ensemble
2 performers and 1 ensemble: solo soprano voice; solo tenor voice; instrumental ensemble
2 performers: solo soprano voice; piano
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo trombone; instrumental ensemble
2 performers and 1 ensemble: solo brass instrument; solo piano; instrumental ensemble
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo soprano voice; instrumental ensemble
1 performer and 1 ensemble: solo tenor voice; instrumental ensemble
5 performers and 1 ensemble: solo soprano voice (2); solo tenor voice (2); solo baritone voice; instrumental ensemble

General Notes:

Title from disc label.
Recorded 2015 June 20-21 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City.
Program notes by the conductor, biographical notes on the composer and performers, and discographical and bibliographical references (39 pages : portraits) inserted in container.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (1:08:19) ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 154,532
LPCD 153,195

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 093228077329
Publisher Number, New World Records: 80773-2

OCLC Numbers:

929618362