Reporters: | We'd like to hear, we'd like to hear How your wrote 'Alexander's Band,' How it became a song of fame. |
Berlin: | That's very hard to understand. For about a year or so It was lying on the shelf – Nobody liked it, I hated it myself. But soon it turned out to be my Money lamb. |
Reporters: | We heard you got an awful lot For 'Alexander's Ragtime Band.' |
Berlin: | I must admit, 'twas quite a bit. But when the Music Box was planned, I never knew how many songs it took to build a theatre, So every night I try to write An 'Alexander's Ragtime Band.'3 |
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