Editing Irving Berlin (section)

====Various hit songs by Berlin====
By 1926, Berlin had written the scores to two editions of the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' and four annual editions of his ''Music Box Revue''. These shows spanned the years of 1921–1926, premiering songs such as "Say It With Music", "Everybody Step", and "Pack Up Your Things and Go to the Devil".<ref name=":0"/> ''Life'' magazine called Berlin the "Lullaby Kid", noting that "couples at country-club dances grew misty-eyed when the band went into 'Always', because they were positive that Berlin had written it just for them. When they quarreled and parted in the bitter-sweetness of the 1920s, it was Berlin who gave eloquence to their heartbreak by way of '[[What'll I Do]]' and 'Remember' and 'All Alone'".<ref name=Life/>

;"[[What'll I Do?]]" (1924)
This ballad of love and longing was a hit record for [[Paul Whiteman]] and had several other successful recordings in 1924. Twenty-four years later, the song went to no. 22 for [[Nat King Cole]] and no. 23 for [[Frank Sinatra]].<ref name=Corliss/>

;"[[Always (Irving Berlin song)|Always]]" (1925)
Written when he fell in love with [[Ellin Mackay]], who later became his wife. The song became a hit twice (for [[Vincent Lopez]] and [[George Olsen]]) in its first incarnation. There were four more hit versions in 1944–45. In 1959, [[Sammy Turner]] took the song to no. 2 on the R&B chart. It became [[Patsy Cline]]'s postmortem anthem and hit no. 18 on the country chart in 1980, 17 years after her death, and a tribute musical called "Always... Patsy Cline", played a two-year [[Nashville]] run that ended in 1995.<ref name=Corliss/> [[Leonard Cohen]] included a cover of this song on his 1992 release ''[[The Future (Leonard Cohen album)]]''.

;"[[Blue Skies (1926 song)|Blue Skies]]" (1926)
Written after his first daughter's birth, he distilled his feelings about being married and a father for the first time: "Blue days, all of them gone; nothing but blue skies, from now on."<ref name=DVD/> The American public often associated Irving Berlin’s music with Jewish cultural sensibility, when Berlin composed “Blue Skies”, the question of how a piece that resonated strongly with Jewish culture, became a strong representation of American musical culture came into light. Studying the early performances and its sheet music can help us understand how Jewish culture helped influence the pieces’ composition and popular reaction. Later interpretations transformed the songs’ ethnic and cultural connections.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Magee |first=Jeffrey |date=2000-12-01 |title=Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies": Ethnic Affiliations and Musical Transformations |url=https://academic.oup.com/mq/article-abstract/84/4/537/1097644?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=The Musical Quarterly |volume=84 |issue=4 |page=540 |doi=10.1093/mq/84.4.537 |issn=0027-4631}}</ref> The song was introduced by Belle Baker in ''Betsy'', a Ziegfeld production.<ref name=":0" /> It became a hit recording for [[Ben Selvin]] and one of several Berlin hits in 1927. It was performed by [[Al Jolson]] in the first feature sound film, ''[[The Jazz Singer]]'', that same year. In 1946, it returned to the top 10 on the charts with [[Count Basie]] and [[Benny Goodman]]. In 1978, [[Willie Nelson]] made the song a no. 1 country hit, 52 years after it was written.<ref name=Corliss/>

;"[[Puttin' On the Ritz]]" (1928)
An instant standard with one of Berlin's most "intricately syncopated choruses", this song is associated with [[Fred Astaire]], who sang and danced to it in the 1946 film ''Blue Skies''. The song was written in 1928 with a separate set of lyrics and was introduced by [[Harry Richman]] in a 1930 film of the same name. In 1939, [[Clark Gable]] sang it in the movie ''Idiot's Delight''. In 1974 it was featured in the movie ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' by [[Mel Brooks]], and was a no. 4 hit for [[synth-pop]] artist [[Taco Ockerse|Taco]] in 1982, when its composer was 94.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_W5QnO5UGk|title=Taco - Puttin on the Ritz (1983)|date=August 29, 2008 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=October 17, 2019}}</ref> In 2012 it was used for a [[flash mob]] wedding event in Moscow.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXd3wX_USc| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/FNXd3wX_USc| archive-date=October 30, 2021|title=Flashmob Moscow (Russia) : Putting on the ritz 2012| date=June 15, 2012|publisher=YouTube|access-date=October 17, 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

;"Marie" (1929)
This waltz-time song was a hit for [[Rudy Vallée]] in 1929, and in 1937, updated to a four-quarter-time [[swing music|swing]] arrangement, was a top hit for [[Tommy Dorsey]]. It was on the charts at no. 13 in 1953 for [[The Four Tunes]] and at no. 15 for [[the Bachelors]] in 1965, 36 years after its first appearance.<ref name=Corliss/>

;"Say It Isn't So" (1932)
Rudy Vallée performed it on his radio show, and the song was a hit for [[George Olsen]], [[Connee Boswell]] (she was still known as Connie), and [[Ozzie Nelson]]'s band. [[Aretha Franklin]] produced a single of the song in 1963, 31 years later.<ref name=Corliss/> Furia notes that when Vallée first introduced the song on his radio show, the "song not only became an overnight hit, it saved Vallée's marriage: The Vallées had planned to get a divorce, but after Vallée sang Berlin's romantic lyrics on the air, "both he and his wife dissolved in tears" and decided to stay together.<ref name=Furia-Poets/>

;"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (1937)
Performed by [[Dick Powell]] in the 1937 film ''On the Avenue''. Later it had four top-12 versions, including by [[Billie Holiday]] and [[Les Brown (bandleader)|Les Brown]], who took it to no. 1.<ref name=Corliss/>