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Jerome Kern collection, 1905-1951

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Show Music, 1905-1945 (continued)
Manuscripts (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 94/6 Whippoorwill
see also Whip-poor-will from Sally
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 91/17 You tell 'em
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 21 p.
BOX-FOLDER 94/7 You tell 'em
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 92/3 Lyric sheets
Typescript lyric sheets (asterisked titles include a manuscript lyric sheet in pencil, possibly in Buddy DeSylva's hand, on Jerome Kern stationary) ; [43] p.
Includes:
  • Back yard band
  • Bill
  • A business of our own
  • Finale act one
  • *Finale act two
  • Forget-me-not
  • Give a thought to Broadway
  • [Hail! and speech] : Monty's speech
  • *It's better to be a man
  • The language of love
  • A man around the house
  • The mandolin and the man
  • *Opening act two
  • Opening chorus act one
  • Producers
  • Something must be the matter with me
  • Telephone girls
  • Whippoorwill
  • You tell 'em
BOX 95 Miscellaneous/Unidentified Show Music
BOX-FOLDER 95/1 Calliope - Mitzi's chorus
Manuscript lead sheet in ink, annotations in pencil, manuscript sketch in pencil on back ; [2] p.
Note: probably intended for Head Over Heels
BOX-FOLDER 95/2 Caprice
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, no lyric ; 6 p.
Note: same music as "The weeping willow tree" from Dear Sir
BOX-FOLDER 95/3 Cocoanut dance
Manuscript lead sheet/sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Note: probably intended for Lucky
BOX-FOLDER 95/4 Dance through life with you
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 12 p.
Note: this may be "Dance through life with me" written for Girls Will Be Girls (retitled Love o' Mike) and dropped during tryout (later considered for Very Good Eddie), or, "I'd love to dance through life with you" from A Modern Eve
BOX-FOLDER 95/5 Do look at him
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, annotations in Kern's hand in pencil ; [3] p.
Note: probably intended for Oh, Lady! Lady!!
BOX-FOLDER 95/6 Don't forget (Duet: Stella and Ted)
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, no lyric ; [4] p.
Note: probably intended for Love o' Mike
BOX-FOLDER 95/7 Entrance of girls
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, no lyric ; 5 p.
Note: written for She's a Good Fellow, reused in Sunny
BOX-FOLDER 95/8 Finale act I
Manuscript piano score in pencil, annotations in Kern's hand in ink ; [1] p.
Note: probably intended for Lucky
BOX-FOLDER 95/9 Finaletto act I
Manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, no lyric ; [9] p.
Note: probably intended for Very Good Eddie, but unused
BOX-FOLDER 95/10 Finaletto act I
Holograph sketch in pencil ; 5 p.
Note: probably intended for Dear Sir
BOX-FOLDER 95/11 Garden of girls
Frank Saddler manuscript piano score in ink ; [2] p.
Note: same music as "Package of seeds"; written for Oh, Boy!
BOX-FOLDER 95/12 God rest you merry gentlemen
Manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; [3] p.
On title page: arranged as a modern 'Blues' by Jerome Kern
BOX-FOLDER 95/12 God rest you merry gentlemen
Printed piano-vocal score [non-Kern arrangement] ; p. 10
BOX-FOLDER 95/13 A great idea
Manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/14 Human after all
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, no lyric ; 16 p.
Note: probably intended for Love o' Mike
BOX-FOLDER 95/15 I have been around a bit (Duet: Madge and Jerry)
Manuscript full score in ink ; 18 p.
Note: probably intended for Ninety in the Shade
BOX-FOLDER 95/16 If eventually, why not now
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil, lyric partially in ink ; [3] p.
Note: blue pencil marks in Frank Saddler's hand date piece as pre-1921
BOX-FOLDER 95/17 It's a mile and a half (to easy street)
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 3 p.
Note: Lyric by Schuyler Greene, dated 1915
BOX-FOLDER 95/18 It's wireless
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 5 p.
Note: burthen is same music as burthen in "Little church around the corner" from Sally
BOX-FOLDER 95/19 A little closer
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, typescript lyric ; 4 p.
Note: Lyric by M.E. Rourke, dated 1910
BOX-FOLDER 95/20 Little Eva
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 4 p.
Note: probably from The Dairymaids
BOX-FOLDER 95/21 Madrigalette #13
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, vocal lines in Kern's hand in pencil, no lyric ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/22 Me
Holograph piano score in pencil ; [2] p.
Note: probably intended for Head Over Heels
BOX-FOLDER 95/23 Mendocino stroll
Manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
Note: Music and lyric by Donald Brian and Jerome Kern
BOX-FOLDER 95/24 Minstrels
Holograph sketch in variously colored pencils ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/25 Morganatic love (duet: Zaza and Atlas)
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 6 p.
Note: Lyric by Noel Coward, music reused for Dear Sir
BOX-FOLDER 95/26 My Bonnie Jean
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/27 Opening act II
Holograph lead sheet/sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/28 Fox trot
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/28 Opening act II - dance
Frank Saddler manuscript piano score in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/29 Opening scene 2 - Mitzi
Manuscript vocal arrangement/sketch in ink ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/30 Publicity
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; 2 p.
On front: Dear Frank [Saddler] This is designed for the comedian to speak the verse and sing the Burthen alone on the stage. But I think we had better have a fuller arrangement of the Burthen prepared in case they want to use the chorus. So will you please make a 1st and 2nd ending to the Burthen, which will have the wood and Brass cued in and marked 'Play 2nd time only' There is a flat box of Tomato seedlings waiting for you here. Yrs. Jerome
BOX-FOLDER 95/31 Ten nights in a ball room - blues
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score, no lyric ; 7 p.
Note: probably intended for Sitting Pretty, but unused
BOX-FOLDER 95/32 Terzetto ultimo
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 3 p.
Note: probably intended for Dear Sir
BOX-FOLDER 95/33 Wedding scene
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 3 p. (incomplete)
Note Lyric by George V. Hobart
Note: written for Polish Wedding, reused in Oh, Lady! Lady!!
BOX-FOLDER 95/34 When a woman!
Max Steiner manuscript full score in ink ; 20 p.
BOX-FOLDER 95/35 Wishing well scene
Holograph sketch in pencil ; p. 2
BOX-FOLDER 95/35 Wishing well scene
Holograph sketch in pencil ; p. 6
BOX-FOLDER 95/35 Wishing well scene
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Note: sketches appear unrelated; music used in Dear Sir and Sunny
BOX-FOLDER 95/36 You and I (Mac Forland)
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, lyric in Kern's hand in pencil ; 8 p.
Note: Lyric by P.G. Wodehouse, dated 1916
BOX-FOLDER 95/36 You and I (Mac Forland)
Mimeograph of typescript lyric sheet ; [1] p.
Note: Lyric by P.G. Wodehouse, dated 1916
BOX-FOLDER 95/37 Unidentified, G major in 2/4
Holograph sketch in pencil ; 1 p. (small)
Note: probably intended for Dear Sir, but unused
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