Irving Berlin - 'Oh, How I Hate to get up in the Morning'

[iLuvSmartCars]

This is my "Monday Morning" song :)

[zootyzoot]

Look up Andrew Porter on Spotify to find the entire Irving Berlin catalogue on a single playlist.

[zootyzoot]

Every last song that Irving Berlin ever wrote is better than any song that anyone else EVER wrote.  Period. Irving was THE BOMB.

[OfShadowandSubstance]

Badass song. Irving Berlin rules.

[ShowtuneSampler]

The irony is that Irving Berlin was Russian.

[OfShadowandSubstance]

@ShowtuneSampler How is that ironic?

[thebagsnow]

cock

[darbyzworld]

He was just too wonderful for words.

[RM4FS]

At 04:00 The Corporal of the Guard (after night guard duty) wakes up the Bugler for Reveille at 05:00

[ronaldweasleyfan55]

If you dislike this... you're obviously a bugler or that other pup that wakes the bugler up.

[xbarbiefacex]

Great song, Mr Berlin was really an amazing director/songwriter. Everything. Wish people were like this today.

[GuaranteeCleaning]

My dad used to sing this to my sister and I when we were little kids... I had no idea it was a real song! We just assumed he made it up.

[Marrisha0509]

By the way its the same guy that wrote "God Bless America."

[Marrisha0509]

Have to sing this song at school bummer cause I think its kind of weird :3

[IwantShawn]

Old movies are faggots.

[CarolAnnePoltergeist]

Suits me well :D

[tev866]

I would agree with Irving Berlin. I HATE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING!!!!! I'm going to murder my alarm clock.

[LOLingLOLer1998]

Irving Berlin is awesome. Mom sings this to my sisters and I. Grandpa sang it to her and all of her other siblings (she is the youngest of 13)

Learned about Irving Berlin in Choir.... I think his music is great! -3 -3

[1baratone]

What A WONDEFUL MAN!!! i heard about his life in brief detail on Golden Days Radio 95.7 i felt a connection as i also sing and dont read music or know how to play an instrument as i read in Irvings bio on wiki encyclopedia! though im learing to more now with help!!! I Love this Mans Will to Survive and endure great Dificulty to become Great human!!! "GOD BLESS IRVING" is my song ^L^ i was in tears as i finished reading about his life.

[LorentzElena32]

this is the GREAT AMERICAN SPIRIT! Even at the peak of the WWII, the true soul of the Americans could be full of humor while remaining patriotic! (I am not American, not even living in US).

[RubyofTrinity]

Oh man. My dad used to sing this to me on school mornings.

It sort of made me want to kill things.  XD

Still, it was appropriate.

[MrReloboy]

thank you! god the memories from my parents and this song from their era.

[MrReloboy]

thank you god the memories from my parents and this song from their era.

[honeypi]

My father liked to sing this song too!

[fighterace0]

Sounds almost exactly like "gee I wish I were back in the army." Self plagiarism much?

[TsukamotoTenma]

3 people are buglers.

[volleyballdramaetc]

this has always been by theme song.

[MelodyGirl7]

Thanks so much for the great 1940s musical uploads! I've always loved musicals!

[Biddybalboa]

the mentioned it in the social network thats what brought me here...

[godtheonyt]

Wow! Music in the 20's were actually thought about rather than the random lyrics, and lack of skill in today's music!

[CarlDuke]

There is a great story that goes along with this clip. As Shocccker said this was from the movie This Is the Army. Well despite his genius in writing songs, Berlin was not much of a singer, though early he did work as a singing waiter for a time.  During the rehearsals a couple of stagehands standing around as Berlin sang, commented upon his poor singing skills. One said to the other, "Boy if the guy who wrote that song could see what this guy is doing to it, he'd roll over in his grave."

[laurelfr1]

I just love this..................

[fuckhatersfucklove]

i loveee it



[jdsmyhero85]

3 people REALLY hate to get up in the morning!  This is SUCH a WONDERFUL song/movie!!!!!

[PockyAddictionUS]

I worked on an Irving Berlin Musical Review at a local theater, where i had to work late hours almost every night for 2 weeks. Everyday I would here this song in my head when I woke up(not to mention the actor that sang it was very good).

[shawtyyy1231]

This is a really good song actually ,We listened to it in General Music .

[toneddef]

My grandmother would sing this song to me when i was visiting.. Of course, being woken out of a sound sleep by reveille gives a whole new meaning to "I'm going to murder the bugler". Even if the bugler is a recording...

[johnd39]

He also composed "God Bless America."

[RosesNightengales]

*snickers* Some day Im gonna murder the bugler! XD

[meileen1942]

My mom woke me many mornings with this. I never forgot the words. Thanks for putting it on, even if he didn't sing all that great. This song didn't need a perfect singer. What a talent!!!

[aretamarie]

Yeah, I've seen this before. Good stuff. Funny how things are pretty much the same as back then.

[daftxpunk77]

Remember when people had to hit the right notes when they sang, and computers wouldn't do it for them because... they didn't exist? Ah. Great times.

[a2n2queen]

Some day I'm going to murder the bugler.....

[Colin185]

At Boy Scout Camp my troop sang this for the closing campfire this year.

[garethofoz]

Irving Berlin really DID hate to get up in the morning - so although written for a purpose, this song carried real meaning for him.

He really was a genius songwriter - how many hits?

Superb!

[RM4FS]

This song was true in WWI WWII Korea Viet Nam and now Iraq and Afganistan

[cazja]

For years I thought my grandfather wrote this song because he always used to sing it to me to wake me up in the mornings for school and I'd never heard it anywhere else. Haha. He fought in the war. Now I like to think he saw this movie during it and it made him laugh so he remembered it. And I like Irving's voice - it's very sweet. Thank you so much for posting, truly has made my day :-)

[Miakahitoshi666]

I love Irving Berlin...and Im only 23 lol

[toonimated]

Irving Berlin never learned to read or write music. He hummed or sang his songs to a secretary, who wrote them down in musical notation.

:DD

[Cruiserfrank]

Even as a senior US Army NCO I used to get a kick out of singing this early in the morning while walking the barracks before PT.

[jonnysouthjersey]

One of my father's favorite songs. I think he might have felt much the same way about Army life.

[knifecollector96]

im related to irving berlin i belive hes one of my cousins

[dgr7590]

my dad would sing this song to me the first day of school like every year. now he just does it for shits and giggles to piss me off when i wake up lol

[Hyenashowl]

One of the best songwriters who didn't know a note of music theory. He hummed his songs to a secretary and she wrote it in notation.

[jonajen]

What a treat to hear the composer himself sing this song. Sure he had a small voice, but somehow poignant in its simple clarity and lack of pretension. Bravo, Mr. Berlin - and thanks for the other 799 songs!

[leafyutube]

Great voice. I`d put him up there with Pavarotti and Caruso. Haha!

[WillScarlet16]

Happy birthday Irving!

[dldbug]

If I was a country that song would be my national anthem.

[TheHachmom]

Irving Berlin actually toured this show during both WWI and WWII...I have sat thru the entire movie just for this scene.....

[jdominic108]

Truely one of the greatest song writers of all time!

[julieford123]

Irving was an American treasure.

[Aprilshowersss]

he could only compose music in the key of F.

[Chicken10843]

I just heard this guy today and he's a good singer.

[laurelfr1]

heck, you young folks really know the story. Those were REAL soldiers, and one of them was my uncle!

[Generis10]

Что это за выродок?

[youngfreak32]

Whether he was a good singer, or not, he was first, & foremost a songwriter. A damn good one!

[x69dev69x]

this bloke is legendary and most of his work still live son and he wrote alot of songs an stuff such as great singers like Danny Kaye n Bing crosby

[TonyEye]

My Grandfather (WWII vet) would watch us in the mornings when my parents went to work and sang this to us every morning. We hated it then, but now it's a fond memory.

[caveatemp]

My mom used to sing this one to us every morning. She has a worse singing voice than Irving too!

[5playerproductions]

The most amazing songwriter in history.

[MrRainbowsocks]

why is everyone saying that Irving Berlin can´t sing?

his voice is fine

[dameaustel]

This man Irving Berlin is one of the best song writers the world has ever known. He has a sweet voice full of character he sings just fine, and performing in this show was one of the happiest periods of his life. He is amazing.

[Haiioo]

"Then I'll get the other pup, the guy who wakes the bugler up!"

Haha! That line got me laughing good!

Man, these classics can never die.

[youngfreak32]

Reportedly on the set of this being filmed, an extra said to his friend "Boy, if that composer heard this guy, he'd be turning in his grave." Hee hee hee!

[jdsmyhero85]

Haha! That's great!

[mkjrhodes]

Actually, for that time, he was a very good singer.

[Nate6333]

Story of my life.

[lindsayarr]

My grandmother used to sing this to me when I stayed over at her house... up to the part about murdering the bugler. =D

[leafyutube]

Caruso and Pavarotti didn't have much to worry about losing their job because of Berlin. Haha!

[snowqueen2213]

My Mother Grandmother always sings this song

[joehancock01]

this speaks about me

[Stingly13]

My Dad likes this song because it reminds him of getting up at 2 AM for work.

[HunterSThompsonFan]

My father always sang this song to me on the weekends in the summer when he would wake my ister and I to begin the trek to Michigan where we camped. I didn't learn until high school that it was an Irving Berlin song.

[RabidNozomi]

My dad used to sing the part, "you gotta get up, you gotta get up in the morning. you can't spend the rest of your life in bed." to wake me up for school. It was the most annoying thing ever.

[alexnagy]

my goodness, my dad too! that exactly! i hated it but now i have a special place for this song somewhere in my heart...go figure

[BOGZASV8MA]

classic

[frankqr]

No voice but the greatest American music Genius of the XX century

[JG12739]

I am 20 years old and this is one of my favorite movies they don't make them like this anymore thats for sure. thank you for posting. Joel

[angelicaQQangelica]

this video is so so so so awsome.

[AnotherSpecialEdMom]

There is a story that between takes one of the camera operators said to another that it was a good thing the guy who wrote that song couldn't hear what this guy was doing to it! I'm just glad we have a record of him performing his own song.

[patriotchild]

I think out of this entire movie, this is my favorite part. I love it. I was raised on this movie. Thanks for posting.

[Papakipling]

mmm... oh how i hate to get up in the morning :S

[masterconman31]

my dad sings this to my friends and i at sleep overs

[KeinPCvorallem]

Whenever I slept late as a boy, my father, who was born in 1914, used to sing a few bars of this. THEY JUST DON'T WRITE THEM LIKE THIS ANYMORE!

[sislau]

Ha ha ... I do the same thing with my kids (after my grandmother would do this to me--she was born in '24), which is why I felt the need to look up the whole song, to prove I wasn't making it up. Traditions are great, huh? ;)

[DracoFamiliar]

@KeinPCvorallem My mom too! It's a family tradition in our house!

[LynneGo]

This is a CLASSIC! Irving Berlin was a genius.

[BigKwell]

@LynneGo He was a Russian Jew... but Irving Berlin wrote GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC!!!

[madlyhigh]

brilliant, thank you for posting.

[surferchick4990]

i LOVE this of Irving Berlin. By far my favorite part in this entire movie.

[DRAGONSTX]

Great Post !!

[Egaads]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting this slice of history. He was amazing. God bless Irving!

[alexalex3131]

He also, of course, wrote "God Bless America" which many say should be our National Anthem. (And for many more, already is.) By the way, for a world class genius, he had some wicked sense of humor!

[9aspengold5]

One of my most favorite songs by Irving Berlin. Irving Berlin was one of the 'most American' people in the world, that so many idiots said was non-american, because he was not born in America. His songs helped unite us during the War.