News from The Irving Berlin Music Company: PLAY A SIMPLE MELODY
When ""Alexander's Ragtime Band,"" Irving Berlin's first hit song, swept the nation in 1911, Victrolas were new-fangled contraptions.
Today is Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Keke Palmer Nico Muhly Macaulay Culkin Branford Marsalis Gabriel Barre Michael Jeter Michael Pace K.C. Ligon Toni Kaye Valerie Simpson Don LaFontaine Ronny Graham Jan Clayton Christopher Isherwood Phil Baker Ferdinand Bruckner Zona Gale John T. Kelly Emma Hunton Wanda De Jesus Gordon McKellen Jr. Reyno Jeter Benjamin Hendrickson Avner Eisenberg Victor Markey Preshy Marker Wilford Leach Sheppard Kerman William Preston Waldo Angelo Lester Lanin Jesse Greer Jules Romains