Words and Music by Irving Berlin
1911
Katie's last glimpse of Genevieve had been the sight of her amazed and offended face as it whizzed round the corner, while the steam melodeon drowned protests with a spirited plunge into 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'.
The Man with Two Left Feet. 6 Crowned Heads
He liked both words and music, the work, he had been given to understand, of the maestro Berlin, author and composer of Alexander's Ragtime Band and other morceaux.
Galahad at Blandings. Chapter 9.III