The Resume

(May 11, 1888-September 22, 1989)
Birth Name was Israel Baline
Composed 'White Christmas' and 'God Bless America'
Wrote the songs 'Alexander's Ragtime Band,' 'When I Lost You,' 'Cheek To Cheek,' 'How Deep Is The Ocean,' 'Blue Skies,' 'Puttin' On The Ritz' and 'There's No Business Like Show Business'
Wrote the musical 'Annie Get Your Gun (1946)'
Wrote film scores for 'Top Hat (1935),' 'Holiday Inn (1942),' 'Easter Parade (1948),' 'Call Me Madam (1953)' and 'White Christmas (1954)'

Why he might be annoying:

He suffered from depression.
He started his own company to publish his music.
He wrote the best selling song of all time 'White Christmas,' even though he was Jewish.
He was a recluse for much of his last 20 years.
He refused to give Steven Spielberg permission to use one of his songs, saying he had one of his own projects in mind, even though he was 98.
He lived to be 101.

Why he might not be annoying:

He began life working as a street singer in New York's Lower East Side.
The name Berlin came from a spelling mistake on his first song.
He wrote 'God Bless America.'
He gave his royalties from the song to the Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts of America.

Credit: Fantom

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• American Music Award of Merit (Ranked: 1976)
• Andy Warhol Portraits
• ASCAP Top 25 Holiday Songs [December 2005] (Ranked: 5)
• Bob Hope USO Tours (Ranked: 1948)
• Celine Dion Covered My Song
• Celtic Women Covered My Song
• Cole Porter's 'You're the Top' References
• Ed Sullivan Show Guests
• Fantom's Profiles
• Film Composers
• Forbes' Top Earning Dead Celebrities [2003] (Ranked: 16)
• Forbes' Top Earning Dead Celebrities [2004] (Ranked: 8)
• Forbes' Top Earning Dead Celebrities [2005] (Ranked: 11)
• Freemasons
• Golden Girls References
• Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (Ranked: 1968)
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [A-C]
• I Am Vaudeville [A-L]
• I Come from Queens
• I Did Not Graduate High School [A-B]
• I Died in 1989 (Ranked: 101)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[A-B]
• I Lived to 100 (Ranked: 101)
• I Sing About New York
• I was Home Schooled
• I'm Buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx
• Jewish Composers of Christmas Songs
• Linda Ronstadt Covered My Song
• Musicians Who Can't Read Music
• Oscar for Best Original Song (Ranked: 1942)
• Profiles 3501-3750 (Ranked: 3516)
• The Chipmunks Covered My Song
• U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
• Waiters

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 35.71% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 17 Votes: 5.88% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 47 Votes: 46.81% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 18 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 55 Votes: 38.18% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 79 Votes: 49.37% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 58 Votes: 43.10% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 167 Votes: 60.48% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 56 Votes: 39.29% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 33 Votes: 42.42% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 147 Votes: 43.54% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 185 Votes: 41.08% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 271 Votes: 43.54% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 368 Votes: 44.29% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 870 Votes: 42.30% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 1658 Votes: 39.69% Annoying