by nyandw
Irving Berlin, the famous songwriter, was an early soldier in Camp Upton, and with all the other men hated to get up in the morning when the bugle blew, so he wrote the song “Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning,” which became an instant success. He got many Broadway performers to come out to the camp and entertain the soldiers in the camp theater and he directed a musical comedy called “Yip Yip Yaphank,” which soon became famous and had a short Broadway run.
