IN SEARCH OF LOST IRVING BERLIN  THEATER SONGS… by Chip Deffaa, Editor-At-Large

Berlin, incidentally, could not write music.  He could play piano"not too well, and in only one key.  He would play, sing, and hum songs that he created, which a musical secretary would then take  down and put into written form for him.  The typed lyrics that Shaw saved (with the words  "you're a dumb kop") may have been typed by Berlin himself or may have been dictated by Berlin  to a musical secre…

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