He was the most prolific and best loved song creator. We are singing many of his songs. Here are some of his best followed by musicals and film soundtrack listings.
Irving Berlin’s greatest hits:
White Christmas
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Cheek to Cheek
Always
God Bless America
Blue Skies
Puttin’ on the Ritz
There’s No Business Like Show Business
What’ll I Do
Easter Parade
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon
When I Lost You
Watch Your Step – 1914 musical
What Is Love
Around the Town
They Always Follow Me Around
Show Us How To Do the Fox-Trot
When I Discovered You
The Syncopated Walk
I Love To Have the Boys Around Me
Settle Down In a One-Horse Town
Move Over
Lock Me In Your Harem and Throw Away the Key
Homeward Bound
Come To the Land of the Argentine
I’ve Got To Go Back To Texas
Office Hours
The Dancing Teacher
Metropolitan Nights
Chatter Chatter
Old Operas In a New Way
Look At Them Doing It
I Hate You
Play a Simple Melody (in high brown)
When It’s Night Time in Dixie Land (in high brown)
The Minstrel Parade (in high brown)
Stop! Look! Listen! – 1915 musical
Blow Your Horn
Give Us a Chance
I Love To Dance
And Father Wanted Me to Learn a Trade
The Girl on the Magazine
I Love a Piano
That Hula Hula
When I’m Out With You
On the Beach at Waiki-ki
One-Two-Three-Four
Take Off a Little Bit
Teach Me How To Love
The Law Must Be Obeyed
Ragtime Melodrama
When I Get Back to the U.S.A.
Stop! Look! Listen!
I’ll Be Coming Home With a Skate On
Everything in America is Ragtime
A Pair of Ordinary Coons (in High Brown)
The Century Girl – 1916 musical comedy revue with Victor Herbert
Alice in Wonderland
The Ballet Loose
The Birth of the Century Girl
The Century Girl
The Chicken Walk
That Broadway Chicken Walk
Jungle Ball Finale
He Likes Their Jukelele
Humpty Dumpty
It Takes an Irishman to Make Love
Kiss Me Again / Kiss Me Once More
The Music Lesson / Herbert-Berlin Duet
On the Train of a Wedding Gown
The Romping Redheads
The Stone Age
The Toy Soldiers
Uncle Sam’s Children
Under the Sea
When Uncle Sam is Ruler of the Sea
You Belong To Me
Dance and Grow Thin – 1917 musical
Way Down South (There’s Something Nice About the South)
Birdie
Cinderella Lost Her Slipper
Mary Brown
The Kirchner Girls
Don’t Look At Me
Letter Boxes (Just Placed in New York)
Dance and Grow Thin
Let’s All Be Americans
The Cohan Revue of 1918 – musical
Polly Pretty Polly (Polly With a Past)
Show Me the Way
When Ziegfeld’s Follies Hit the Town
Our Acrobatic Melodramatic Home
Spanish
The Eyes of Youth (See the Truth)
All Dressed Up in a Tailor-Made
The Potash and Perlmutter Ball
A Man Is Only a Man
King of Broadway
The Wedding of Words and Music
The Gathering of the Slaves
The Slave Dance
A Bad Chinaman from Shanghai
Down Where the Jack O’Lanterns Glow
The Old Maid Blues
Who Do You Love?
Their Hearts Are Over Here
Yip, Yip, Yaphank – 1918 musical revue
You Can’t Stay Up on Bevo
Oh! How I Hate To Get Up in the Morning
I Can Always Find a Little Sunshine in the YMCA
Kitchen Police (Poor Little Me)
Dream On, Little Soldier Boy
Mandy
We’re On Our Way to France
The Girl I Left Behind
Ragtime Razor Brigade
Ever Since I Put on a Uniform
Page Boy
Floradora Sextette
Love Interest
Dreams of a Soldier
Some Boy
Waters of Venice
Baby
White’s Pet
Don’t Know the Half
Fancy Free
Hello, Hello, Hello
Ding Dong
Come Along, Come Along, Come Along
What a Difference a Uniform Will Make
Jazz Land
Send a Lot of Jazz Bands Over There
Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
You’d Be Surprised
I’ve Got My Captain Working For Me Now
I’d Rather See a Minstrel Show
The Follies Minstrels
Harem Life
I’m the Guy Who Guards the Harem
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
Prohibition
You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea
The Near Future
A Syncopated Cocktail
My Tambourine Girl
Look Out for the Bolsheviki Man
We Made the Doughnuts Over There
Ziegfeld Follies of 1920
Come Along
I’m a Vamp From East Broadway
The Girl of My Dreams
The Leg of Nations
Ziegfeld Sextette
Poor Floradora Girl
Chinese Fantasy: Chinese Firecrackers
Tell Me Little Gypsy
Bells
The Syncopated Vamp
Music Box Revue of 1921
What’s in the Queer-Looking Bundle?
Where Am I?
We Work While You Sleep
We’ll Take the Pilot to Ziegfeld
Dancing the Seasons Away
Behind the Fan
In a Cozy Kitchenette Apartment
My Ben Ali Haggin Girl
My Little Book of Poetry
A Play Without a Bedroom
Say It With Music
Everybody Step
I Am a Dumbell
The School House Blues
They Call It Dancing
The Legend of the Pearls
An Interview with Irving Berlin
Music Box Revue of 1922
Lady of the Evening
Pack Up Your Sins and Go To the Devil
Crinoline Days
Porcelain Maid
Will She Come From the East?
Mont Martre
The Little Red Lacquer Cage
Bring on the Pepper
Diamond Horseshoe
Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue
I’m Looking for a Daddy Long Legs
Take a Little Wife
Music Box Revue of 1923
An Orange Grove in California
Learn To Do the Strut
Little Butterfly
Climbing Up the Scale
Love To Do the Strut
The Waltz of Long Ago
One Girl
Tell Me a Bedtime Story
Maid of Mesh
Music Box Revue of 1925
Tell Her in the Springtime
Listening
In the Shade of a Sheltering Tree
Where Is My Little Old New York
Alice in Wonderland
Don’t Send Me Back To Petrograd
Unlucky in Love
The Call of the South
Rockabye Baby
Who
Tokio Blues
The Cocoanuts – 1925 musical written for The Marx Brothers
The Guests
The Bellhops
Family Reputation
Lucky Boy
Why Am I a Hit With the Ladies?
A Little Bungalow
Florida By the Sea
Monkey Doodle-Doo
Tea Dance
Five O’Clock Tea
They’re Blaming the Charleston
We Should Care
Minstrel Days
Specialty
Spain
The Tale of a Shirt
When My Dreams Come True
Why Do You Want To Know Why?
Ting-a-Ling, the Bells’ll Ring
Tango Melody
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Ziegfeld Follies of 1927
We Want to be Glorified
Ribbons and Bows
Shaking the Blues Away
Ooh, Maybe It’s You
Rainbow of Girls
It All Belongs To Me
It’s Up to the Band
Jimmy
Learn to Sing a Love Song
Tickling the Ivories
What Makes Me Love You?
The Jungle-Jingle
You Gotta Have “It”
Now We Are Glorified
Why Must We Always Be Dreaming
My New York
Hallelujah – 1929 film
Waiting at the End of the Road
Swanee Shuffle
Mammy – 1930 film
Let Me Sing and I’m Happy
Here We Are
Who Paid the Rent for Mrs. Rip Van Winkle
The Knights of the Road
The Call of the South
Miserere
Across the Breakfast Table (Looking At You)
In the Morning
Night Boat To Albany
Mammy
To My Mammy
Puttin’ On the Ritz – 1930 film
Alice in Wonderland
Puttin’ On the Ritz
With You
Singing a Vagabond Song
There’s Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie
Reaching For the Moon – 1930 film
When the Folks High-up Do the Mean Low-Down
Reaching For the Moon
Face the Music – 1932 musical
Lunching at the Automat
Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee
Torch Song
You Must Be Born With It
On a Roof in Manhattan
My Beautiful Rhinestone Girl
Soft Lights and Sweet Music
I Say It’s Spinach (and the Hell with it)
A Toast To Prohibition (Drinking Song)
Dear Old Crinoline Days
I Don’t Want To Be Married
Manhattan Madness
Investigation
As Thousands Cheer – 1933 revue
Man Bites Dog
How’s Chances?
Heat Wave Hits New York
Debts (Majestic Sails at Midnight)
Lonely Heart
The Funnies
To Be or Not To Be
Easter Parade
Metropolitan Opera Opening
Supper Time
Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Gandhi Goes On Hunger Strike)
Revolt in Cuba
Our Wedding Day
Harlem On My Mind
Not For All the Rice in China
Through a Key Hole
Top Hat – 1935 film musical
Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
Cheek To Cheek
No Strings (I’m Fancy Free)
Isn’t This a Lovely Day
The Piccolino
Follow the Fleet – 1936 film
We Saw the Sea
Let Yourself Go
Get Thee Behind Me Satan
I’d Rather Lead a Band
But Where Are You?
I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
Let’s Face the Music and Dance
On the Avenue – 1937 film
I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
This Year’s Kisses
You’re Laughing At Me
The Girl on the Police Gazette
He Ain’t Got Rhythm
On the Avenue
Slumming on Park Avenue
On the Steps of Grant’s Tomb
Swing Sister
Alexander’s Ragtime Band – 1938 film
Main Title
Nob Hill Concert
Dirty Eddie’s
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
My Ragtime Violin
In My Harem
He’s a Rag Picker
The International Rag
Now It Can Be Told
My Walking Stick
Marching Along With Time
Carefree – 1938 film
Since They Turned ‘Loch Lomond’ into Swing
I Used To Be Color Blind
The Night Is Filled With Music
The Yam
Change Partners
Carefree
Second Fiddle – 1939 film (available on YouTube)
An Old Fashioned Tune Is Always New
The Song of the Metronome
Back To Back
When Winter Comes
I’m Sorry for Myself
I Poured My Heart into a Song
Louisiana Purchase – 1940 musical
The Letter
Apologia
Sex Marches On
Louisiana Purchase
It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow
Outside of That I Love You
You’re Lonely and I’m Lonely
Tonight at the Mardi Gras (Dance With Me)
Latins Know How
What Chance Have I With Love?
The Lord Done Fixed Up My Soul
Fools Fall in Love
One Man’s Darling – Young Man’s Slave?
You Can’t Brush Me Off
I’d Love To Be Shot From a Cannon With You
Wild About You
It’ll Come To You
Holiday Inn – 1942 musical film
Steppin’ Out With My Baby
The Little Things in Life
Blue Skies
Marching Along With Time
Heat Wave
It’s a Lovely Day Today
Plenty To Be Thankful For
Nothing More To Say
Shaking the Blues Away
White Christmas
Holiday Inn
Happy Holidays
Let’s Start the New Year Right
You’re Easy To Dance With
Let’s Take an Old-Fashioned Walk
Be Careful, It’s My Heart
Cheek To Cheek
Easter Parade
Song of Freedom
Let’s Say It With Fire Crackers
I’ll Capture Her Heart Singing
Abraham
This is the Army – 1943 musical
Your Country and My Country
My Sweetie
Poor Little Me, I’m on K. P.
We’re On Our Way To France
God Bless America
What Does He Look Like
This is the Army, Mr. Jones
I’m Getting Tired So I Can Sleep
Mandy
The Army’s Made a Man Out of Me
Ladies of the Chorus
What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear
How About a Cheer for the Navy
I Left My Heart At the Stage Door Canteen
With My Head in the Clouds
American Eagles
Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
This Time is the Last Time
My Sergeant and I Are Buddies
That Russian Winter
Aryans Under the Sun
My British Buddy
Ve Don’t Like It
Annie Get Your Gun – 1946 theater musical and film musical
Colonel Buffalo Bill
I’m a Bad, Bad Man
Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly
The Girl That I Marry
You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun
There’s No Business Like Show Business
They Say It’s Wonderful
Moonshine Lullaby
I’ll Share It All With You
Ballyhoo
My Defenses Are Down
Wild Horse Ceremonial Dance
I’m an Indian, Too
Adoption Dance
I Got Lost In His Arms
Who Do You Love, I Hope
I Got the Sun in the Morning
Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
Take It In Your Stride
Let’s Go West Again
An Old-Fashioned Wedding
Blue Skies – 1946 film
Say It Isn’t So
Getting Nowhere (Running Around in Circles)
Everybody Step
I’ll See You In C-U-B-A
I’ve Got My Captain Working For Me
You’d Be Surprised
A Couple of Song and Dance Men
Puttin’ On the Ritz
Blue Skies
Serenade To an Old Fashioned Girl
I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket
Cheek to Cheek
All My Best
The Little Things In Life
Not For All the Rice in China
Russian Lullaby
Heat Wave
Any Bonds Today
This is the Army
White Christmas
God Bless America
You Keep Coming Back Like a Song
What’ll I Do
All Alone
Remember
Easter Parade – 1948 film
Steppin’ Out With My Baby
A Fella With an Umbrella
Shakin’ the Blues Away
I Love a Piano
Snooky Ookums
When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’
A Couple of Swells
It Only Happens When I Dance With You
Better Luck Next Time
Easter Parade
Happy Easter
Drum Crazy
Everybody’s Doin’ It Now
I Want To Go Back To Michigan
Making Faces
Beautiful Faces Need Beautiful Clothes
This is the Life
Along Came Ruth
Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon
The Ragtime Violin
Mixed Greens
New Amsterdam Roof
Mr. Monotony
The Girl on the Magazine Cover
Miss Liberty – 1949 musical
What Do I Have To Do To Get My Picture Took?
The Most Expensive Statue in the World
A Little Fish in a Big Pond
Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk
Homework
Paris Wakes Up and Smiles
Only for Americans
Just One Way To Say I Love You
You Can Have Him
The Policeman’s Ball
Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
Miss Liberty
The Train
Follow the Leader Jig
Me and My Bundle
Extra! Extra!
I’d Like My Picture Took
Mister Monotony
The Pulitzer Prize
Call Me Madam – 1950 musical
Mrs. Sally Adams
The Hostess With the Mostes’ on the Ball
Washington Square Dance
Lichtenburg
Can You Use Any Money Today?
Marrying For Love
The Ocarina
It’s a Lovely Day Today
The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)
Something To Dance About
Once Upon a Time Today
They Like Ike
You’re Just In Love (I Wonder Why?)
There’s No Business Like Show Business – 1954 film
When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam’
Play a Simple Melody (in High Brown)
A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
After You Get What You Want
If You Believe
Heat Wave
A Man Chases a Girl (Until She Catches Him)
Lazy
A Sailor’s Not a Sailor
There’s No Business Like Show Business
White Christmas – 1954 film
White Christmas
Sisters
The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing
Snow
Blue Skies
Mandy
Choreography
Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep
Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me
What Can You Do With a General?
The Old Man
Gee I Wish I Was Back in the Army
Mr. President – 1962 musical
Let’s Go Back to the Waltz
In Our Hide-Away
The First Lady
Meat and Potatoes
I’ve Got to Be Around
The Secret Service
It Gets Lonely in the White House
Is He the Only Man in the World?
They Love Me
Pigtails and Freckles
Don’t Be Afraid of Romance
Laugh It Up
Empty Pockets Filled With Love
Glad to Be Home
You Need a Hobby
The Washington Twist
The Only Dance I Know
I’m Gonna Get Him
This is a Great Country
Once Every Four Years
Song for a Belly Dancer (added in 1966)
Corrections welcome.
