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...Berlin surely thought himself an outsider as well. There were Jews in the music business when he started, but not as many as there soon would be. During a 1913 Friars Club tribute, Berlin's predecessor and rival George M. Cohan described Berlin as "a Jew boy who named himself after an English actor [Henry Irving] and a German city." One can read as much affection as coarseness into the Irishman's epithet. Vaudeville and pop songs of the period were full of spiked ethnic jokes (Jewish, black, Irish, Italian); they were the hot bubbles from the American melting...
...Even beyond the biggies, it?s hard to think of another city that has inspired as many classic tunes - there?s a whole songbook for almost every major street, avenue and neighborhood. Irving Berlin, the man who wrote "God Bless America" also wrote "Harlem on My Mind." George M. Cohan captured the energy of the Great White Way with "Give My Regards to Broadway." (There?s also "On Broadway," and numerous other homages to the area). When it comes to the Big Apple, even the public transportation system has received tribute in song, in the form of Duke Ellington...
...apocalypse really had that kind of high school simplicity, however, why didn't Koogle head it off sooner? After all, here is a genius hailed by e-business author Peter Cohan as "one of the few adults in Silicon Valley," a man who saw the Web's potential years ahead of most. "My hair is graying because I've seen so many business cycles," Koogle joked to TIME last October. But he also displayed alarming signs of true believerism about web advertising. Disappearing dotcoms made no difference to his bottom line, he said, since traditional companies would pick...
...Stop Loving You - Don Gibson ("They say that time heals a broken heart, but time's stood still since we've been apart." Gonna be a bad life.) 9. White Cliffs of Dover If you're old and British, you'll understand. 10. Over There - George M. Cohan Defined a mission for the first and second generations who fought a global conflict. Written and sung when patriotism was still cool...
...Your Broadway show, Little Johnny Jones, opened and closed the same night. You think it was you, or the composer, George M. Cohan...