Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
15 Vaudeville-style songs from the early period of Berlin's brilliant career, arranged for piano and voice. Includes: Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars * Herman Let's Dance That Beautiful Waltz * Sadie Salome Go Home! * San Francisco Bound * Sweet Italian Love * This Is the Life * Yiddisha Nightingale * You'd Be Surprised * and more. Includes color illustrations of original sheet music, notes on each song, and a Berlin biography.
Table of Contents
If you don't want my peaches, you better stop shaking my tree -- Cohen owes me ninety-seven dollars -- Sadie Salome go home! -- Yiddisha nightingale -- Follow the crowd -- If that's your idea of a wonderful time, take me home -- This is the life -- How do you do it Mabel, on twenty dollars a week? -- You'd be surpised -- Sweet Italian love -- My wife's gone to the country, hurrah! hurrah! -- Abie sings an Irish song -- Herman let's dance that beautiful waltz -- When Johnson's Quartette harmonize -- When it rains, sweetheart, when it rains -- San Francisco bound.