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This article is a list of songs written by Irving Berlin. It is arranged in alphabetical order. Sources vary as to the number of songs actually written by Berlin, but a 2001 article in TIME put the figure at around 1,250.¹

According to the New York Public Library, which contains a catalogue of 550 non-commercial recordings radio broadcasts, live performances, and private recordings, he published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907 and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. Many of the songs were included in the seventeen complete scores he wrote for Broadway musicals and revues, as well as collaborations with other musicals.²

A

• "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" (1915)
• "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1911)
• "All Alone" (1924)
• "All by Myself" (1921)
• "Always" (1925)
• "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)"

B

• "Be Careful It's My Heart"
• "The Best Thing for You"
• "Blue Skies"

C

• "Change Partners"
• "Cheek to Cheek"
• "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep"

D

• "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"

E

• "Easter Parade"

F

• "Follow the Crowd"
• "Free"

G

• "The Girl on the Magazine Cover"
• "The Girl That I Marry"
• "God Bless America"

H

• "Happy Holiday"
• "Heat Wave" (1933)
• "Hostess With The Mostes'"
• "How Deep is the Ocean?"

I

• "I Got Lost In His Arms"
• "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket"
• "It's a Lovely Day Today"
• "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
• "I Love A Piano" (1915)
• "I Used to Be Color Blind" (1938)
• "I Want to Go Back to Michigan"

J

• "(Just One Way to Say) I Love You"

L

• "Lady of the Evening"
• "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy"
• "Let Yourself Go"
• "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
• "Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk"
• "Little Fish in a Big Pond"

M

• "Marie from Sunny Italy" (1907)

N

• "No Strings"
• "Now It Can Be Told"

O

• "Old Fashioned Wedding" (1966)
• "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" (Published: 1918)
• "Oh, How That German Could Love"
• "Once Upon a Time Today"

P

• "Pack up Your Sins and Go to the Devil"
• "Paris Wakes up and Smiles"
• "Play a Simple Melody"
• "Puttin' on the Ritz"

R

• "Reaching For The Moon"
• "Remember"
• "Russian Lullaby"

S

• "Say it Isn't So
• "Say It With Music"
• "Sing a Song of Sing Sing"
• "Slumming On Park Avenue"
• "The Song is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)"
• "Soft Light and Sweet Music"
• "Stay Down Here Where You Belong"
• "Steppin' Out with My Baby"

T

• "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1946)
• "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails"

W

• "What Chance Do I Have With Love?"
• "What Do I Have to Do to Get My Picture in the Paper?"
• "What'll I Do?"
• "When I Leave the World Behind"
• "When I Lost You"
• "When The Midnight Choo Choo Leaves For Alabam" (1912)³
• "White Christmas" (1942)

Y

• 'You Keep Coming Back Like a Song"
• "You're Just in Love"
• "You're Laughing At Me"

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