Richard Rodgers collection, 1917-1980 (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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	Miscellaneous Sketches (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 20/1		[M.S. 1]
			Holograph sketches in ink ; [3] p.
			Includes: #2: "[You're too wonderful for me]" (from Winkle Town, 1922) #3: "[I want a man]" (intended for Winkle Town but used in America's Sweetheart, 1931)
BOX-FOLDER 20/2		[M.S. 2]
			Holograph sketches in pencil in small sketchbook with ship drawn on front ; [22] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "[You took advantage of me]" (from Present Arms, 1928) p. [2,3]: "[Tell it to the Marines]" (from Present Arms, 1928) p. [4]: "[Do I hear you saying,] I love you[?]" (from Present Arms, 1928) p. [5]: "Verse [You took advantage of me]" (from Present Arms, 1928), "[Is it the uniform?]" (from Present Arms, 1928) p. [6]: "[I love you more than] yesterday" (from Lady Fingers, 1929) p. [7]: "[Is it the uniform?]" (from Present Arms, 1928), "Down by the sea (verse)" (from Present Arms, 1928) p. [8,9]: "[A kiss for] Cinderella" (from Present Arms, 1928) p. [10]: "[I'm a fool, little one]" (from Present Arms, 1928), "[Crazy elbows] blues" (from Present Arms, 1928) p. [11]: "Crazy elbows" (from Present Arms, 1928) p. [12,13]: "Finaletto (This rescue is a terrible calamity!)" (from (Present Arms, 1928) p. [13]: "Opening scene III act II" p. [15]: "[Better be good to me]" (from Chee-Chee, 1928) p. [16]: "[Sleep, weary head]" (from Chee-Chee, 1928) p. [17]: "[In a great big way] : Li Li Wee solo" (from Chee-Chee, 1928), "[Sleep, weary head]" (from Chee-Chee, 1928) p. [18]: "[The color of her eyes]" (cut from Spring Is Here, 1929; used in Ever Green, 1930) p. [20]: "[I must love you]" (from Chee-Chee, 1928), "Verse Better be good [to me]" (from Chee-Chee, 1928) p. [21]: "[The Tartar song] : March f minor" (from Chee-Chee, 1928), "Cho[rus I must love you]" (from Chee-Chee, 1928) p. [22]: "Moon of my delight" (from Chee-Chee, 1928)
BOX-FOLDER 20/3		[M.S. 3]
			Holograph sketches in pencil and ink in "Academy Manuscript Book" ; [16] p.
			Laid in: typed notes re sketches, dated 9/2/80 ; 10 p. (small)
			Includes: p. [1]: "[A] cup of tea" (from Lido Lady, 1926), "[A tiny flat near Soho Square]" (from Lido Lady, 1926) p. [2]: "Verse [You're on the] Lido [now]" (from Lido Lady, 1926), "[Lido Lady]" (from Lido Lady, 1926) p. [3]: "[The beauty of another day]" (from Lido Lady, 1926) p. [4]: "Verse Feature of show", "[My heart stood still]" (early version, first used in One Dam Thing After Another, 1927, later used in A Connecticut Yankee, 1927) p. [5]: "Verse [Ever-ready] Freddy" (for Lido Lady, 1926), "[Try again tomorrow]" (from Lido Lady, 1926) p. [6]: "Verse [Try again tomorrow]" (from Lido Lady, 1926) p. [7]: "Morning is midnight" (cut from Lido Lady, 1926), "[My heart is] Sheba [bound]" (from Lido Lady, 1926) p. [8]: "[Two to eleven patter] : Passing of time" (from Lido Lady, 1926), "Finale act I" (for Lido Lady, 1926) p. [9]: "Chuck it!" (cut from Lido Lady, 1926; used in Peggy- Ann, 1926) p. [10-11]: "Finale act II" (includes "Here in my arms" on lines 1-3 of p. [11]; from Lido Lady, 1926), "[Atlantic blues]" (from Lido Lady, 1926; later used in Present Arms, 1928, as "Blue ocean blues") p. [12]: "Venetian lady : verse" (may be "Birds on high" from Betsy, 1926), "[Try]" p. [13]: "[Try]" (2 lines at top), "Hello!" (section in G major has same release as "Hello!" from Peggy-Ann, 1926) p. [14]: "[Sing]" (from Betsy, 1926), "If I were you : [Refrain &] verse" (from Betsy, 1926) p. [15]: "[A little birdie told me so]" (from Peggy-Ann, 1926), "[The Kitzel engagement] : Opening Ziegfeld" (from Betsy, 1926) p. [16]: "[This goes up]" (from She's My Baby, 1928)
BOX-FOLDER 20/4		[M.S. 4]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
			Includes: top of p. [1]: "[With a song in my heart]" (from Spring Is Here, 1929)
BOX-FOLDER 20/4		[M.S. 5]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "[You are so lovely and I'm so lonely]" (sung in Something Gay, 1935), "[As though you were there]" (cut from Heads Up!, 1929)
BOX-FOLDER 20/4		[M.S. 6]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
			Includes: "Now I believe" (became "Isn't it romantic?" from Love Me Tonight, 1932), "Hands" (probably cut from America's Sweetheart, 1931)
BOX-FOLDER 20/5		[M.S. 7]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [12] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "[I'm a] queen [in my own domain]" (cut from Hollywood Party, 1934) p. [2]: "Verse [Keep away from the] moonlight" (cut from Hollywood Party, 1934) p. [3]: "[That's the] r[h]ythm of the day" (from Dancing Lady, 1933) p. [4]: "Verse Dancing lady" (from Dancing Lady, 1933), "Verse Door is open," "[That's the] r[h]ythm of the day" (from Dancing Lady, 1933) p. [5]: "D[ancing] l[ady]" (from Dancing Lady, 1933) [partial page] p. [6]: "Tomorrow's Sunday" p. [8]: "Verse Be a star" p. [9]: "Reincarnation" (from Hollywood Party, 1934) p. [10]: "Verse [That's the] r[h]ythm [of the day" (from Dancing Lady, 1933), "H[ollywood] P[arty]" (from Hollywood Party, 1934)
BOX-FOLDER 20/6		[M.S. 8]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [3] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "Easy to remember" (from Mississippi, 1935) p. [2]: "[Please] make me be good" (from Let's Have Fun, 1935), "[I'll take a little of] you on toast" (from Let's Have Fun, 1935)
BOX-FOLDER 20/6		[M.S. 9]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "When your love lets you down" (became "There's a small hotel" which was cut from Jumbo, 1935, and used in On Your Toes, 1936) p. [2]: "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" (from On Your Toes, 1936)
BOX-FOLDER 20/7		[M.S. 10]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [4] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "The circus comes to town" p. [2]: "Patter opening," "[Too good for the] average man" (from On Your Toes, 1936) p. [3]: "Verse [Glad to be] unhappy" (from On Your Toes, 1936), "Opening," "Refrain" p. [4]: "Verse Are you my love[?]" (from Dancing Pirate, 1936)
BOX-FOLDER 20/7		[M.S. 11]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [4] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "Solitaire" p. [2]: "Ballet," "Verse Who are you" (from the film version of The Boys from Syracuse, 1940) p. [4]: "Verse [A] barking baby [never bites]" (from Higher and Higher, 1940), "[Disgustingly] rich" (from Higher and Higher, 1940)
BOX-FOLDER 20/8		[M.S. 12]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [10] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "Carretero"[sic](from They Met in Argentina, 1941), "Cowboy" p. [2]: "Trio Ranchero," "Contrapunto" (from They Met in Argentina, 1941), "New end for 'Best of me'" p. [3]: "Chaco" p. [4]: "Plant you now, [dig you later]" (from Pal Joey, 1940), "Sung in a parlor," "[Maiden?] now" p. [5]: "Tango" p. [7]: "Show," "Bewitched, bothered and bewildered" (from Pal Joey, 1940), "Alter[nate] middle," "[Bewitched, bothered and bewildered : verse]" (from Pal Joey, 1940) p. [8]: "[Take him]" (from Pal Joey, 1940), "Lullaby?" p. [9]: "Ranchero," "Verse Simpatica" (from They Met in Argentina, 1941) p. [10]: "On the track : verse" (from They Met in Argentina, 1941), "N[orth] A[merica] meets S[outh] A[merica]" (from They Met in Argentina, 1941)
BOX-FOLDER 20/9		[M.S. 13]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "1st love dance," "When the willow blooms," "Dressing the girl" p. [2]: "Festive dance"
BOX-FOLDER 20/9		[M.S. 14]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
			Includes: p. [1]: "Go west," "Soldiers," "College girls" p. [2]: "Honeymoon," "Hurry"
BOX-FOLDER 20/10		[Unidentified sketches]
			Holograph sketches in pencil ; [13] leaves
BOX-FOLDER 20/11		[Unidentified lyric sketches]
			Holograph lyric sketches in pencil & ink ; [9] p.
BOX 20-21	Photographs
		The Photographs are contained in three folders. They span the years 1920-1979.
		Arrangement is chronological.
BOX-FOLDER 20/12		[Camp Paradox - 1920] : Photograph of "The Faculty/1920," black & white ; 9 1/4" x 7" See also: [Camp Paradox materials] in MISCELLANEOUS
BOX-FOLDER 21/1		[ca. 1920-1947, 1953] : Photographs (10) in black & white ; 8" x 10"
BOX-FOLDER 21/2		[1955-1965] : Photographs (8), 6 in black & white and 2 in color ; 8" x 10"
BOX-FOLDER 21/3		[1976-1979, n.d.] : Photographs (9) in black & white ; 8" x 10"
BOX 21	Miscellany
		The Miscellany series contains Camp Paradox materials, Carbon copies of correspondence with the Library of Congress (1964, 1965), a typed lists of the items in the collection, Memorbilia, and related items from Richard Rodgers 65th birthday tribute.
		Arrangement is by folder heading.
BOX-FOLDER 21/4		[Camp Paradox materials] : "The Paradoxian," published at Camp Paradox, N.Y., some autographed ; 7 issues (1918-1920, 1925) See also: Paradox victory song/chant in NON-SHOW MUSIC
BOX-FOLDER 21/4		[Camp Paradox materials] : "Camp Paradox 1914" (informational booklet) See also: Paradox victory song/chant in NON-SHOW MUSIC
BOX-FOLDER 21/5		[Letter] : Carbon of typed letter (Eileen Minich to Harold Glick, 5/17/65) re original Rodgers' mss. sent to the Library of Congress
BOX-FOLDER 21/5		[Letter] : Carbon of typed letter (9/1/64) describing mss. sent via letter above
BOX-FOLDER 21/6		[List re contents of Richard Rodgers Collection] : Typed lists (2) ; 18 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 21/7		[Memorabilia] : Invitation to Richard Rodgers exhibition at Hallmark Gallery, N.Y., 9/19/72
BOX-FOLDER 21/7		[Memorabilia] : Keepsake from the event honoring Richard Rodgers at the Library of Congress, 6/4/80
BOX-FOLDER 21/7		[Memorabilia] : Autographed guest list, 6/4/80
BOX-FOLDER 21/8		[65th birthday tribute to Richard Rodgers] : Press release re tribute to Rodgers, 6/28/67 ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 21/8		[65th birthday tribute to Richard Rodgers] : Commemorative linen napkin of the song "Sweet sixty-five" (from I'd Rather Be Right, 1937)
BOX-FOLDER 21/8		[65th birthday tribute to Richard Rodgers] : Envelope (oversize)

Richard Rodgers collection, 1917-1980

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