dear god look how many instrument this MENACE has
I was curious about the two red songbooks on the piano so I did some sleuthing!!! It looks like they are (left to right):
the soundtrack to a 1964 film called Dear Heart. (pull quote from this Medium article that also had the photo: it's a 'movie about sex that isn’t trying to be sexy: its ambition is to be a romance bereft of sentimentality' lol.)
Found the main theme for it on YouTube for it if anyone wants to give a listen!
a 'Hit Song Music Folio' with music for piano, guitar, banjo, ukulele, so I imagine it's versatile for all of Newt's other 100 instruments in the lab! please don't ask me how long I spent looking for this one; my eureka moment was finally making out that it says Music Folio after going frame by frame through the special features.
I can pretty much only find this one on eBay listings which place its printing somewhere in the early to mid 1940s (I'm seeing both 1943 and 1946). The fact that it's all love songs........................
Anyway I thought these were both fun characterization choices to have with Newt's stuff, because it's not the kind of music I would think he would be playing! And it's kind of sweet to imagine him playing romantic old songs in the lab after hours :')
