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    • May 10, 1970
    Sonny James performs "My Love" and "Waterloo" on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The evening also features The Jackson 5, Don Rickles and pianist Roger Williams, who does an Irving Berlin medley
    May 24, 1973
    Roy Acuff performs at the White House--along with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Sammy Davis Jr.--for POWs who returned from Vietnam. Acuff sings "Wabash Cannonball." Irving Berlin conducts the orchestra during "God Bless America"
    Sep 2, 1978
    Willie Nelson's version of the Irving Berlin song "Blue Skies" reaches #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Feb 5, 1984
    A touring production of "Annie Get Your Gun" begins in Texas, co-starring Helen Cornelius and Dave & Sugar founder Dave Rowland
    May 11, 1988
    Willie Nelson sings "Blue Skies" at Carnegie Hall in New York as CBS shoots "Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration." The cast includes Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney. Berlin doesn't attend
    May 28, 1988
    Willie Nelson performs "Blue Skies" as CBS airs "Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration." The special also features Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Tony Bennett, Rosemary Clooney and Ray Charles
    Sep 22, 1989
    Songwriter Irving Berlin dies in New York. He wrote "Blue Skies," which became a hit from Willie Nelson's album "Stardust"; and penned "Annie Get Your Gun," which brings Reba McEntire to Broadway in 2001
    Dec 25, 2000
    NPR honors Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" among the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. The Irving Berlin-penned song also became a country hit for Ernest Tubb
    Sep 15, 2002
    A 37-cent Irving Berlin stamp is dedicated by the U.S. Postal Service during a ceremony in New York's Times Square. Berlin wrote Willie Nelson's 1978 hit "Blue Skies" and the score to "Annie Get Your Gun," a recent Reba McEntire vehicle
    Oct 17, 2005
    While celebrating its 100th anniversary, Variety ranks Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, Irving Berlin, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Janis Joplin, Little Richard and The Rolling Stones among its 100 Icons Of The Century
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