Keep On Smiling: Songs By Irving Berlin, 1915 - 1918

Irving Berlin (Composer, Performer), Benjamin Sears (Performer), Elbert Oxley (Performer), Charles Ricker (Performer), Benjamin Sears (Artist), Bradford Connor (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Irving Berlin, Benjamin Sears, Elbert Oxley, Charles Ricker
• Composer: Irving Berlin
• Audio CD (September 17, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Oakton Recordings
• ASIN: B000004CRG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,570 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Circus Is Coming to Town, song

2. Araby, song

3. I've Got a Sweet Tooth Bothering Me, song

4. Until I Fell in Love with You, song (from "Stop! Look! Listen!")

5. Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars, song

6. When I Leave the World Behind, song

7. Down Where the Jack O'Lanterns Grow (from "The Cohan Review of 1918")

8. Polly Pretty Polly (Polly With A Past), song (from "The Cohan Review of

9. The Eyes of Youth See the Truth, song (from "The Cohan Review of 1918")

10. Mandy (The Sterling Silver Moon), song (from "Yip-Yip-Yaphank")

11. While the Band Played an American Rag, song

12. The Voice of Belgium, song

13. The Devil Has Bought Up All the Coal, song

14. They Were All Out of Step But Jim, song

15. Smile and Show Your Dimple, song

16. Dream On Little Soldier Boy, song (from "Yip-Yap Yaphank")

17. When I Get Back to the U.S.A., song (from "Stop! Look! Listen!")

18. I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind, song (from "Ziegfield

19. Medley: Oh, How I Hate To Get Up in the Morning / Kitchen Police (Poor

20. We're On Our Way to France, song (from "Yip-Yap-Yaphank")

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for home and classroom, March 20, 1999

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This review is from: Keep On Smiling: Songs By Irving Berlin, 1915 - 1918 (Audio CD)

No other composer so closely kept his fingers on the pulse of American thinking and gave the country so much of what it thought it wanted. "Yiddle on Your Fiddle" tells us more of the second-generation immigrants' desire to become Americanized than all the history and sociology books can ever do. So it is a double pleasure to announce the appearance of "Come on and Hear!: Early Songs by Irving Berlin, 1909-1915" and "Keep on Smiling: Songs by Irving Berlin, 1915-1918," two fantastic CDs or tapes on Oaktown label and released through a friendly little Connecticut company calling itself Original Cast Records. Between the two sets, you have 41 tracks of the Berlin output from "Everybody's Doing It Now" to "We're on Our Way to France." The soloist is Benjamin Sears, who with pianist Bradford Conner has something of a reputation around the Boston area. Now some of this material is duplicated by the more widely known Joan Morrison on two RCA Victor releases, possibly out of print by now; and like those discs could use another voice now and then. (Conner does join in where a duet is called for, but my point remains.) Sears is a capable if not an outstanding baritone, who does justice to these historic expressions of Americana. So not only do I recommend both of these sets for their enjoyment value, but I wish to continue to point out to Social Studies teachers how valuable sets like this would be to classes who have no concept of how people really felt (as opposed to what they merely said and did) "way back when." And I might even stick out my neck so far as to offer to come to any school (in reasonable distance of where I live) to give a sample lesson on how these sets can be used.