About the Album: The great songwriter Irving Berlin is just one of the incredible talents featured on Alexander's Ragtime Band, a complete recording of the original 1938 radio broadcast. Listeners ...

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IRVING BERLIN was not pleased when rumors started circulating in 1911 that he had not really written “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” the song that established him as a major popular songwriter, earned a ...

Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band is a grand filmusical which stirs and thrills, a medley of more than 30 pieces, selected from some 600 which Berlin has composed. Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s ...

A collage of photos from the Comerford Theater’s opening night appeared in the Aug. 19, 1938, edition of the Wilkes-Barre Record. I hope my efforts have been somewhat successful. In learning about the ...

September 17th marks the 96th anniversary of the birth of the country-music icon commonly referred to as the “Hillbilly Shakespeare.” Hank Williams not only earned that distinction for the many ...

Some people think that ragtime started with Irving Berlin’s Alexander’s Ragtime Band. Others, better informed, know that when Berlin’s song appeared (1911) ragtime had long since passed its peak.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 30—One of my favorite things about this column are the ways in which Margaret and I have explored local history. In the ...