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Thread #151936 Message #3551301
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Aug-13 - 04:49 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin)
This, of course, is the song that made people say that Irving Berlin had a "pickaninny in his closet" writing his songs. Seems to me, he must have had George M. Cohan in his closet to write this one.