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...d This Is the Army, using only military personnel. In 1955 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower presented Berlin with a special medal authorized by the Congress of the United States for his patriotic songs. Berlin wrote music for the films Top Hat (1935), On the Avenue (1937), Blue Skies (1946), Easter Parade (1948), and others. Among his many popular songs are “Everybody's Doin' It,””There's No Business Like Show Business,””God Bless America,””White Christmas,” and “Easter Parade.” In 1968 Berlin received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The American composer Irving Berlin (1888-1989) produced about 800 songs, many of which attained worldwide popularity. His patriotic songs, especially "God Bless America," seemed to epitomize the mass American sentiments of the era. Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Tyumen, Russia, on May 11, 1888. The family of nine fled the persecutions of Jews in Russia in 1893 and settled in New York City, where, like so many other immigrants of that time, they lived on the Lower East Side. The family's first years in America were very difficult--at one time they all sold newspapers on the streets. Israel, the youngest child, was first exposed to music in the synagogue in which his father occasionally sang as cantor; he also received singing lessons from his father. When the boy left home at 14, he made money by singing in saloons on New York's Bowery. He attended school for two years but had no formal musical education; he never learned to read or notate music. It was while working ..... May 1888 - September 22nd 1989 Born Israel Berlin in May 1888, he had his first major international hit, Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1911. Irving Berlin's music defined American popular song for much of the century: White Christmas, Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better, There's No Business Like Show Business, Puttin' On The Ritz and God Bless America being only a few of his pieces. He wrote seventeen Broadway musicals and many movie musical scores, winning a special Tony Award (1963) and the Academy Award for Best Song of the Year (White Christmas) in 1942. Irving Berlin was a co-founder of ASCAP, founder of his own music publishing company, and, with producer Sam Harris, built his own Broadway Theatre, the Music Box. Through many of his foundations, including the God Bless America Fund and This Is The Army Inc. he donated millions of dollars in royalties to Army Emergency Relief, the Boy and Girl Scouts and other organisations. Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist. Born Israel Isidore Baline, in Tyumen, Siberia (or Mahilyow (Mogilev), Belarus ?), he emigrated to the United States in 1893 with the rest of his family. Following the death of his father in 1896, Irving found himself having to work to survive. He did various street jobs including selling newspapers and busking. The harsh economic reality of having to work or starve was to have a lasting effect on the way Berlin treated money. In 1911 the song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" launched a musical career that would span over a thousand songs including many hit Broadway musicals. Irving Berlin's first credited song lyrics were for "Marie from Sunny Italy" in 1907. He was paid 37 cents for this song. Due to a misprint on the record Balin became Berlin. In 1917 during World War I, while he staged a musical revue Yip Yip Yaphank while at Camp Upton in Yaphank, New York. The revue was a patriotric tribute to the United States Army. Berlin composed the song "God Bless America" for the revue but decided against using it. It was also considered for the National Anthem, but was rejected by the press for coming from a Jewish composer. The revue was later included in the 1943 movie This Is the Army featuring other Berlin songs, including the famous title piece, as well as a full-length rendition of "God Bless America" by Kate Smith. He was responsible for many Hollywood film scores including Top Hat (1935) as well as songs such as "White Christmas" from the film Holiday Inn (1942). Berlin was equally as prolific on Broadway, where he is perhaps best known for Annie Get Your Gun (19...