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"This Is the life!", the breakthrough years : 1909-1921, Irving Berlin

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"This Is the life!"

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Irving Berlin

the breakthrough years : 1909-1921

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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Breakthrough years : 1909-1921