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Show Music, 1905-1945 (continued)
Manuscripts (continued)
Forget me not (continued)
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BOX-FOLDER 91/6 Give a thought to Broadway
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 14 p.
BOX-FOLDER 92/10 Give a thought to Broadway
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BOX-FOLDER 91/7 Hail! and speech
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 14 p.
Alternate title: Monty's speech
BOX-FOLDER 92/11 Hail! and speech
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BOX-FOLDER 93/1 Incidental
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BOX-FOLDER 91/8 It's better to be a man
Maurice B. DePackh manuscript full score in ink ; 15 p.
BOX-FOLDER 93/2 It's better to be a man
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BOX-FOLDER 91/9 The language of love
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 31 p.
BOX-FOLDER 92/1 The language of love
see also Genevieve and men from Dear Sir
Printed piano-vocal score, annotations in pencil ; 7 p.
On cover: Genevieve and men act II
BOX-FOLDER 93/3 The language of love
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BOX-FOLDER 91/10 The little back yard band
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 34 p.
BOX-FOLDER 93/4 The little back yard band
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BOX-FOLDER 93/5 Look for the silver lining
see also Sally
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BOX-FOLDER 91/11 A man around the house
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 22 p.
BOX-FOLDER 93/6 A man around the house
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BOX-FOLDER 92/2 The mandolin and the man
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score in ink ; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 93/7 The mandolin and the man
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BOX-FOLDER 91/12 Opening act II
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 22 p.
BOX-FOLDER 93/8 Opening act II
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BOX-FOLDER 91/13 Opening act III
Maurice B. DePackh manuscript full score in ink ; 24 p.
BOX-FOLDER 93/9 Opening act III
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BOX-FOLDER 91/14 Overture
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 20 p.
Includes:
  • The language of love
  • A man around the house
  • Whippoorwill
  • The mandolin and the man
BOX-FOLDER 94/1 Overture
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BOX-FOLDER 91/15 Producers
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 22 p.
BOX-FOLDER 94/2 Producers
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BOX-FOLDER 94/3 Smile opening act I
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BOX-FOLDER 94/4 Smiles
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BOX-FOLDER 91/16 Telephone girls
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 17 p.
BOX-FOLDER 94/5 Telephone girls
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Alternate titles: Opening act II after Entr'acte -- You tell 'em
BOX-FOLDER 94/6 Whippoorwill
see also Whip-poor-will from Sally
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BOX-FOLDER 91/17 You tell 'em
Frank Saddler manuscript full score in ink ; 21 p.
BOX-FOLDER 94/7 You tell 'em
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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
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