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Jerome Kern collection, 1905-1951

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Show Music, 1905-1945 (continued)
Manuscripts (continued)
Unidentified (continued)
Manuscript sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 75/21 Sweet Adeline Selection
Albert Sirmay manuscript piano score in pencil with paste-ins from printed score ; 19 p.
Includes: Here am I; Why was I born; A girl is on your mind; Don't ever leave me; 'Twas not so long ago
BOX-FOLDER 75/22 Lyric sheets
Typescript lyric sheets ; [13] p.
Includes: Here am I; Molly O'Donohue; Out of the blue; Some girl is on your mind - Hoffman house scene; The sun about to rise; 'Twas not so long ago (from the German)
Swing Time (1936) lyrics by Dorothy Fields
BOX-FOLDER 102/23 Bojangles of Harlem
Negative photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
Three Sisters (1934) lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Dorrie barges
see I won't dance from Roberta
Opening act II
see Opening act II - Entrance, melos and exit Philip
Toot-Toot! (1918) lyrics by Berton Braley
BOX-FOLDER 76/1 Every young girl in America
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 4 p. (p. 4 crossed out)
Alternate title: Every girl in all America
BOX-FOLDER 76/2 Finale act II
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 9 p.
In caption: Opening chor act II
BOX-FOLDER 76/3 Girlie no. 13
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/3 Girlie
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/3 Girlie
Printed piano-vocal score, annotations in pencil, some in Bennett's hand ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/4 Honeymoon land #7
see also Omaha
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/5 If
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 2 p.
Note: If you only cared enough; If (there's anything you want)
BOX-FOLDER 76/6 It's immaterial to me
Holograph and Frank Saddler manuscript sketch in pencil ; [3] p. + intro in Kern's hand on scrap of paper
Titled: Porter's song
BOX-FOLDER 76/7 *The last long mile
Printed piano-vocal score ; 5 p.
Note: Music and lyric by Emil Breitenfeld
BOX-FOLDER 76/8 Omaha
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 9 p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/9 Omaha
Holograph piano sketch in pencil ; 3 p.
Includes: New burthen for "Honeymoon land"
BOX-FOLDER 76/10 Omaha #13a
Parts
BOX-FOLDER 76/11 Opening act II
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink, no lyric ; [4] p.
Note: this may not be from Toot-Toot!
BOX-FOLDER 76/12 Opening chorus act 1 #1
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 5 p. + [1] p. insert
BOX-FOLDER 76/13 Runaway colts
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/14 Smoke
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 6 p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/15 Teepee
Parts
Alternate title: I will knit a suit of dreams
Note: orchestrated by Charles Miller
BOX-FOLDER 76/16 Toot-Toot! No. 1 1⁄2
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil ; 7 p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/17 When you wake up dancing
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in pencil, no lyric ; 2 p.
Note: musical routine on back of p. 2
BOX-FOLDER 76/17 When you wake up dancing
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/18 Yankee doodle on the line
Frank Saddler manuscript piano score in pencil ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 76/19 Lyric sheets
Typescript lyric sheets ; [3] p.
Includes: Immaterial to me; Nellie from Omaha
Vanity Fair
[Various titles]
see Dear Sir
Very Good Eddie (1915) lyrics mostly by Schuyler Greene & Herbert Reynolds [M.E. Rourke]
BOX-FOLDER 77/1 Babes in the woods (duettino)
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink and pencil ; 10 p.
On cover: Copyist Extract only ink notes pay no attention to pencil marks. J. Kern Feb 20th/1917
BOX-FOLDER 77/2 Babes in the wood and change of scene #10
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink and pencil ; 20 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/3 Buffo dance #9 1⁄2
see also Buffo dance from Nobody Home
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/4 The fashion show
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 16 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/4 The fashion show #11
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 18 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/5 Finale act II
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 12 p.
Note:Includes: Babes in the wood; If I find the girl; I've got to dance; Nodding roses
Note:Note: original orchestration
BOX-FOLDER 77/5 Finale act II #14
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 4 p.
Note:Includes: Babes in the wood; If I find the girl
Note: Casino version
BOX-FOLDER 77/6 Finaletto act I
see also: Miscellaneous/Unidentified Show Music
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 28 p.
Note: p. 22-28 crossed out with note in Kern's hand "copy in Here p+f Refrain 'Grand and Glorious Feeling' in D"
BOX-FOLDER 77/7 I'd like to have a million #12
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 14 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/7 I would like to have a million
Charles Miller manuscript full score in ink ; 15 p.
Alternate titles: I wish I had a million; I'd like to have a million in the bank
BOX-FOLDER 77/8 If I find the girl #7
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 15 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/8 If I find the girl
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 12 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/9 Isn't it great to be married quartette #4
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 9 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/9 Isn't it great to be married quartette #4
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 11 p.
I've just been waiting for you
see I've just been waiting for you from A Modern Eve
BOX-FOLDER 77/10 Nodding roses #13
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 8 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/10 Nodding roses
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; p. a-b, 1-8
BOX-FOLDER 77/11 Old Bill Baker
Frank Saddler manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; [4] p.
Note: Lyric by Ring Lardner
Note: song added to show after opening
Note: on p. [4] from Frank Saddler: "Jerry: In case of death by bed-bug poisoning use these two bars? -- $."
BOX-FOLDER 77/12 Old boy neutral #9
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 13 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/12 Old boy neutral
Charles Miller manuscript full score in ink ; 12 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/13 On the shore of Le Lei Wi, act II opening number #6
C.M. Selling manuscript full score in ink ; 15 p.
BOX-FOLDER 77/14 On the shore at Le Lei Wi
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 12 p.
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