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Hollywood.com: Irving Berlin  - http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/detail/celeb/199620  Vital statistics, brief biography.  Columbia Encyclopedia: Berlin, Irving  - http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/BerlinI.html  Brief biographical entry.  Everything2: Irving Berlin  - http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=486644  Biographical profile, a bit of trivia, and links to related topics.  Irving Berlin: In and Out of Tune  - http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/berlin.htm  Article builds on Laurence Bergreen's "As Thousands Cheer," a biography of Berlin. [Macleans]  Irving Berlin: Music and Myth  - http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/Berlin2.htm  Interview of Berlin's biographer Laurence Bergreen. [People Weekly]  Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization: Berlin, Irving  - http://www3.rnh.com/bios/Show_bio.asp?Bio_Name1=Berlin,+Irving  Biography. Includes portrait, links.  Jewish-American Hall of Fame: Irving Berlin (1888-1989)  - http://amuseum.org/jahf/virtour/page21.html  Biographical profile.  Irving Berlin: Songs from the Melting Pot  - http://www.pitt.edu/~atteberr/jazz/articles/HAMM.html  Phillip D. Atteberry reviews Charles Hamm's 1997 book.  For Everyman, by Everyman  - http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96mar/everyman/everyman.htm  Article by David Schiff hints that Irving Berlin's real genius lay in his versatility and ability to crystallize national identity from an immigrant's perpective. [The Atlantic Monthly Magazine]  Red, Hot & Blue: Irving Berlin, 1888-1989  - http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rh&b/berlin.htm  Brief biography from an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution saluting the American musical. Includes a portrait of Berlin as a young man.  Spartacus: Irving Berlin  - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAberlinI.htm  Brief biography, for kids. Includes portrait.  Todd's Irving Berlin Page  - http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/berlin/  Lyrics to his most well-known songs sorted by title, with link to a complete "Songography" sorted by year, from 1907 to 1967.  Celebrity Caricature in America: Irving Berlin  - http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/caricatures/berlin.htm  Caricature of Berlin by Miguel Covarrubias, with brief note on the art work and its subject.  Irving Berlin on Film  - http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/30/irvingberlin1.html  A look at the life and work of the legendary songwriter, by Alan Vanneman. [Bright Lights Film Journal]  Irving Berlin: Full score and one key  - http://www.guardiancentury.co.uk/1980-1989/Story/0,6051,110503,00.html  Obituary, written by W.J. Weatherby. [The Guardian]  Solid!: Irving Berlin  - http://www.parabrisas.com/d_berlini.html  Biography, selected compositions, and filmography of the famous songwriter.  The Irving Berlin MIDI Song Tribute  - http://www.melodylane.net/standards8.html  Singalong pages with lyrics, MIDI files, and photos of sheet music covers for several of Berlin's songs in the public domain.  The Broadway Musical Home: Irving Berlin  - http://www.prigsbee.com/Musicals/berlin.htm  List of shows, and of some musical numbers.  Irving Berlin: American Troubadour  - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2298/3_17/62052930/p1/article.jhtml  Ann Sears reviews Edward Jablonski's 1999 biographical book on the prolific composer. [American Music]  Irving Berlin: Early Songs, 1907-1914  - http://www.areditions.com/rr/embellish/1997_03/berlin.html  Details on this three-volume edition, now out of print, of collected sheet music, edited by Charles Hamm. [Embellishments]  Irving Berlin in Hollywood  - http://www.picklehead.com/ian/ian_irving.html  Ian Whitcomb's liner notes for a Rhino Records project.  Irving Berlin: The Nation's Great Composer of Patriotic Songs  - http://www.fau.edu/library/bro82.htm  Biographical profile. Excerpt from "Jewish Heroes and Heroines of America," by Seymour "Sy" Brody.  Irving Berlin: Songs from the Melting Pot: The Formative Years, 1907-1914  - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hamm-berlin.html  First chapter of the book by Charles Hamm. Linked to a review in the New York Times.  God Bless America  - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm019.html  Part of the exhibition "American Treasures of the Library of Congress." The manuscripts, lyric sheets, and printer's proofs for this beloved song were a gift to the library from Irving Berlin's daughters. Photograph of manuscript score and proof, information on the song.  What'll I Do  - http://www.olga.net/dynamic/browse.php?printer=1&local=main/b/berlin_irving/whatll_i_do.tab  Guitar tablature for the Irving Berlin song.  Groucho and Irving Berlin  - http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/berlin.html  Excerpts from "The Groucho Letters." Correspondence between Groucho Marx and Irving Berlin.  Rediscovering Irving Berlin  - http://www.pitt.edu/~atteberr/jazz/articles/IrvingBerlin.html  Book review considers three biographies of the often misunderstood songwriter. By Phillip D. Atteberry.  As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin  - http://www.pitt.edu/~atteberr/jazz/articles/BERGREEN.html  Bergreen's biographical book reviewed by Phillip D. Atteberry.  Music by the Great Irving Berlin  - http://parlorsongs.com/issues/1998-11/nov98feature.asp  Short biography, portrait. Description of six Berlin tunes, with scan of sheet music cover for each. Four MIDI files. Link to gallery with four more covers and three MIDI files. [ParlorSongs]  Irving Berlin: This Is the Army  - http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/summer_1996_irving_berlin_1.html  Detailed four-part article about the making of Berlin's patriotic all-soldier musical. Includes several photographs. Based on a lecture by Laurence Bergreen. [Prologue]  Isaiah Berlin / Irving Berlin  - http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/tribute/2berlins.htm  Anecdote about Winston Churchill's wartime grilling of Irving Berlin, whom he mistook for political philosopher Isaiah Berlin. As told by Isaiah Berlin.  Berlin, Irving  - http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=981  Brief musical biography with comments on his successes from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.  All Movie Guide: Irving Berlin  - http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=EIrving|Berlin  Biography by Hal Erickson, filmography, Oscar nominations.  Oh! How He Hated to Get Up in the Morning  - http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/upton/berlin.htm  On Sergeant Berlin's life as a draftee at Camp Upton, and the staging of Yip Yip Yaphank.  All Music Guide: Irving Berlin  - http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B41967ul0h0ja  Biography by William Ruhlmann, partial discography, list of some outstanding songs, bibliography. Extensive links to related lyricists, composers, and performers.  IMDb: Irving Berlin  - http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000927/  Mini-biography, trivia, quotes. Filmography as a composer, writer, actor, and lyricist. Awards and nominations for his work in films.