Old Sheet Music

Never Court but One; I have finished it, the letter that tells him he is free. Composer: L. V. H. Crosby (d. 1884). Lyricist: S.W. Hazeltine. S. Brainard & Sons, Cleveland, 1850-1859.

Rudolph Valentino - 1926 sheet music

Baby Mine. Love Song & Chorus. Raymond A. Browne (composer). Leo. Friedman (composer). Sung by Marie George in George Lederer’s Production of the “Strollers.” Sol Bloom, Chicago, 1901. Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection.

When your heart is itching From love’s sweet bewitching, strange things you will say and do [first line]

1929,vintage sheet music  - the song “Dream Lover” became a big it and remained popujlar for decades.

Every London landmark should have its own song.

In Your Green Hat

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The Iowa Song from the Edwin Ford Piper Folklore Collection.  

Piper was a poet and English department professor from 1905-1939. He was in great demand as a reader of poetry and his habit of breaking into song when the poem demanded it earned him the nickname “the singing professor.”

In 1897, Piper began transcribing ballads and songs remembered from his childhood. In 1909 he became more systematic about this endeavor, gathering songs printed in newspapers and magazines, collecting them from older singers, exchanging them with other scholars. Eventually, indexes were made for the songs he had collected. These materials now comprise the Piper Collection. 

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A collection of sheet music covers dated 1917-1919. This sheet music provides a glimpse into the American mindset once US troops were committed to what was known at first as the European War, during the final year of the conflict, and then cycling down from a wartime footing. While the production of many consumer goods was curtailed during World War I, sheet music and, surprisingly, pianos were not among their number.

Closer examination of some of the pieces, particularly “Glory, Glory, for Old Glory” (1917), shows that pieces drew on images from earlier conflicts, such as the Spanish-American War. Others featured prominent performers of the day, such as Al Jolson, or mentions of popular New York shows, such as Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolics.

1929 - Billie Dove sheet music “Everybody’s Darling” from movie “The Painted Angel”.