This is the edition Irving Berlin's legions of fans have been waiting for!It includes over 1,200 song lyrics, including 400 never before in print - along with anecdotal, historical, and musicological commentary and dozens of photos.Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as a singing waiter, but by the time he was nineteen he was publishing his songs and quickly found fame with Alexander's Ragtime Band in 1911. In the extraordinary six decades that followed, Berlin wrote one popular hit after another: "Blues Skies", "Always", "Cheek to Cheek", "White Christmas", "There's No Business Like Show Business", and many, many more.He also wrote a number of the classics of musical theatre's Golden Age, climaxing with "Annie Get Your Gun". He penned three Astaire and Rogers films - "Top Hat", "Carefree", and "Follow the Fleet" - as well as the scores of "Holiday Inn", "Easter Parade", and other films. The breadth of his accomplishment is staggering and unlikely ever to be emulated.