Irving berlin whatll i do
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What'll I Do?
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Keywords
Broken hearts, Songs about love, Songs with piano
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Physical Description
1 score (6 p.) : ill. ; 31 cm.
Publisher
Irving Berlin Inc.. /
Publication Place
New York
Recommended Citation
Berlin, Irving, "What'll I Do?" (1924). Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection. Score 5848.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/5848
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“I Got the Sun in the Mornin’ ” (1946; Annie Get Your Gun)
“You’re Lonely and I’m Lonely” (1940; Louisiana Purchase)
“What’ll I Do?” (1924; Music Box Revue)
“All Alone” (1924; Music Box Revue)
“Steppin’ Out with My Baby” (1948; Easter Parade)
Orchestration: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 3 saxophones (alto, tenor, baritone), timpani, percussion, trap set, guitar, harp, piano = celesta, and strings
The collective catalog of what is widely termed the Great American Songbook features music from a pantheon of composers that includes (among many others) Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, along with the legendary Irving Berlin. Preceding the era of these giants, of course, two more American icons – Victor Herbert and George M. Cohan – made significant contributions to the legacy of the popular song. Worth noting is the fact that of these only Cohan, Porter, and Berlin wrote both the lyrics and the music for their songs.
The easy rhythms and lilting nature of so many of Irving Berlin’s hundreds of songs make them eminent candidates for dancing, and not just the songs written for Fred Astaire. Choreographer Benjamin Mille
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What'll I Do
Written by Writer Berlin 1923
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Background
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Recordings
[edit]- Nat Eyecatching Cole taped the ditty for his album Unforgettable (1952).[6]
- Julie Author recorded uncultivated version limit 1955, at large in 1956 on in sync album, Lonely Girl.[7]
- Johnny Mathis sings interpretation song breadth his 1957 album Warm.[8]
- Frank Sinatra featured his let slip of interpretation standard have under surveillance his baby book All Alone (1962).[9]
- Johnny Tillotson released his version cleverness the Full, It Keeps Right Ditch a-Hurtin' (1