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Show Music, 1905-1945 (continued)
Manuscripts (continued)
Le dernier crime de Bennette (continued)
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 23/20 Pearl of Ceylon #2
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, lyric in Kern's hand ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 22/11 Ruby Keeler dance
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 22/11 Ruby Keeler dance
Stephen O. Jones manuscript full score in ink ; p. 5-20
Note: Includes music that became "Life upon the wicked stage" in Show Boat
BOX-FOLDER 23/21 Ruby Keeler dance
Manuscript piano sketch in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 22/12 *The same old moon
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; p. 5-27
Note: Music by Harry Ruby
BOX-FOLDER 23/22 *The same old moon
Printed piano-vocal score ; 7 p.
Note: By Otto Harbach, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby
BOX-FOLDER 23/1 *Shine on harvest moon (Keller sisters)
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; 4 p.
Note: Music by Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth
BOX-FOLDER 23/2 *Spring is here
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; 23 p.
Note: Music by Harry Ruby
BOX-FOLDER 23/23 Strawberry's dance - intro
Manuscript piano sketch in pencil ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 23/3 That little something
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; 18 p.
BOX-FOLDER 23/24 That little something
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, some lyric in pencil ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 23/24 That little something
Carbon of typescript lyric sheet ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 23/4 That little something dance refrain
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 24/1 That little something #7
Parts
The treasure hunt
see Cingalese village ; Opening
BOX-FOLDER 23/5 *What's the matter with the moon
Hans Spialek manuscript full score in ink ; 6 p.
Note: Music by A.B. Sloane
BOX-FOLDER 23/6 *When day is done
Hans Spialek manuscript full score in ink ; 13 p.
Note: Music by Dr. Robert Katscher
When the bo-tree blossoms again
see Bo-tree
BOX-FOLDER 23/25 Without thinking of you
Manuscript piano score in pencil ; 3 p.
On front: unidentified sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 23/7 Unidentified
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink ; p. 34
BOX-FOLDER 23/26 Unidentified
Manuscript piano sketch in pencil ; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 23/27 Lucky selection
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript piano score in ink with printed piano-vocal score laid in, or used as pasteovers ; 18 p.
Includes: Opening act II; That little something; Cingalese girls; When the bo-tree blossoms again; Dancing the devil away; 'Neath the same old moon
BOX-FOLDER 23/28 Lucky selection
Charles N. Grant manuscript piano score in ink ; 14 p.
Includes: Opening act I/Cingalese village; Cingalese girls; That little something; When the bo-tree blossoms again; Ballet; The same old moon; Dancing the devil away
BOX-FOLDER 24/2-3 Cello parts
Parts
The Marriage Market (1913) lyrics by M.E. Rourke
BOX-FOLDER 24/4 I've got money in the bank
Holograph piano-vocal score in ink ; 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 24/5 A little bit of silk
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, verse only ; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 24/5 A little bit of silk
Printed piano-vocal score, refrain only ; p. 5
BOX-FOLDER 24/6 A little bit of silk
Parts
Note: arranged by Charles N. Grant
Men of the Sky (1931) lyrics by Otto Harbach
see All's well with the world; Unidentified/miscellaneous holograph sketches
Earlier titles: Call of the East; Stolen Dreams
Miss 1917 (1917) lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse
Note: some lyric sheets indicate Century Show
BOX-FOLDER 24/7 Lyric sheets
Typescript lyric sheets, some with annotations in pencil ; [16] p.
On verso: We want to laugh; Song: Bessie McCoy and girls; typescript page from Piccadilly Jim
Includes:
  • Anytime that you have troubles cutie (Duet: Fancy Price and Willy)
  • At a moving picture show, or, Dear old stage door (Cigar-counter scene, act II, scene 4)
  • A dancing M.D. (Duet: White and Haig)
  • Follow the girl, act I, scene 1 (number to end farm scene)
  • Go, little boat (Assyrian boat-song)
  • I'm the old man in the moon
  • It's a great life (Trio: Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford)
  • The New York girl, scene 2 (Number to end the plaza scene)
  • Nurse, nurse, nurse (Hospital scene)
  • Palm Beach girl song
  • Peaches, act I, scene 1
  • The picture I want to see, act II (film city scene)
  • The society farmerettes, act I, scene 1
  • Tell me all your troubles cutie (Duet: Brice and King, scene 2)
  • We want to laugh (Bessie McCoy and girls)
  • We're crooks
Miss Caprice
see Lieber Augustin
A Modern Eve (1915) lyrics by Harry B. Smith
BOX-FOLDER 24/8 I'd love to dance through life with you
see also Dance through life with you
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 I've just been waiting for you
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 12 p.
Note: this full score may have been intended for Very Good Eddie
BOX-FOLDER 24/9 I've just been waiting for you
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
Note: in Kern's hand, "Duet. (Elsie & Dick)," indicating usage in Very Good Eddie
Music in the Air (1932) lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Note: full scores have some water damage
BOX-FOLDER 27/7 And love was born
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 28/1 Balloon dance #11
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/1 Bedroom curtain #22
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 28/2 Bedroom curtain, or, Prayer act II #22
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/2 Egern for Lilli
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 16 p.
BOX-FOLDER 28/3 Egern for Lilli #21
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 28/4 Entr'acte #15
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/3 Final scene
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink and pencil, annotations in pencil ; 70 p. + p. 15.5 + insertions (6 p.; 8 p. lead sheet/conductor's score for "Edendorf"; and [1] p. choral score)
Includes: We belong together
BOX-FOLDER 28/5 Final scene #27
Parts
Includes: Goat song, or, Goat music
BOX-FOLDER 28/6 Finale ultimo
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/4 Finale zoo scene
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 32 p.
BOX-FOLDER 28/7 Finale zoo scene #17
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Finaletto (prologue) #2
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 12 p.
At end: Segue Boy No.
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Boy number #3
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; p. 6-11
BOX-FOLDER 29/1 Finaletto #2 ; Interlude #3 ; Opening act I #4
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 25/6 Frieda sings hurdy gurdy
Robert Russell Bennett manuscript full score in ink, annotations in pencil ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 29/2 Frieda's Abgang #19
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 29/3 Frieda's cue #10
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