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Music, 1913-1954 (continued)
Music from Shows (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 The Hurdy-Gurdy Man
see also A Corner of Heaven with You
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 The Hurdy-Gurdy Man
see also A Corner of Heaven with You
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 Man, the Master
see also Musical sketches
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [6] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 My All
see also Musical sketches
William Daly holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; [2-3] p.
Note: Vocal line only; verse incomplete; p. [1] is absent
Note: Early lyric fragment in the hand of IG
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 My All
see also Musical sketches
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 On the Wings of Romance
William Daly holograph manuscript sketch; 1 p.
Note: Title and partial lyric in the hand of IG
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 On the Wings of Romance
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/13 Opening
William Daly holograph manuscript sketch; [2] p.
Note: Partial lyric in the hand of IG
Laid in: Description in the hand of Michael Feinstein
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Someday You'll Realize
see also Musical sketches
William Daly holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; [4] p.
Note: Vocal line only, no lyric
BOX-FOLDER 2/14 Someday You'll Realize
see also Musical sketches
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [5] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/15 Musical sketches
William Daly holograph manuscript sketches with partial lyrics in the hand of IG; [2] p.
Contents:
  • p. [1]: My All (refrain only); Etude op. 25, no. 9; Someday You’ll Realize (refrain only, no lyric)
  • p. [2]: Someday You’ll Realize (verse and refrain); Man, the Master (verse and refrain)
BOX 2 The Country Girl (film, 1954)
BOX-FOLDER 2/16 Commercials
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/17 Dissertation on the State of Bliss
Ozalid copyist piano-vocal score; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/17 Dissertation on the State of Bliss
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [13] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/18 The Land around Us
Ozalid copyist piano-vocal score [no. 1]; 8 p.
Note: Includes Patter section
BOX-FOLDER 2/18 The Land around Us
Ozalid copyist piano-vocal score [no. 2]; 6 p.
Typescript (mimeograph) lyric sheets; 2 p.
Love and Learn
see Dissertation on the State of Bliss
Note: Early title
BOX-FOLDER 2/19 The Pitchman / It’s Mine, it’s Yours
Ozalid copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; 10 p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/19 The Pitchman / It’s Mine, it’s Yours
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [33] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/20 The Search is Through
Ozalid copyist piano-vocal score; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/20 The Search is Through
Typescript lyric sheets; [11] p.
You've Got What it Takes
see The Search is Through
Note: Early title
BOX-FOLDER 2/21 Unidentified lyric sketches
IG holograph manuscripts; [3] p.
BOX 2 Cover Girl (film, 1944)
Any Moment Now
see Long Ago (And Far Away)
BOX-FOLDER 2/22 Cover Girl
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [11] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/23 Long Ago (And Far Away)
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [5] p.
Laid in: Three discarded lyrics for this melody: Any Moment Now; [3] p.; Midnight Madness; [2] p.; Midnight Music; [7] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/24 Make Way for Tomorrow
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [15] p.
Midnight Madness
see Long Ago (And Far Away)
Midnight Music
see Long Ago (And Far Away)
BOX-FOLDER 2/25 Put Me to the Test
see also Put Me to the Test from A Damsel in Distress
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [12] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/26 The Show Must Go On
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [14] p.
BOX-FOLDER 2/27 Sure Thing
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [10] p.
That Girl on the Cover
see Cover Girl
Note: Alternate title
BOX-FOLDER 2/28 That’s the Best of All [unfinished?]
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [7] p.
Note: Suggestion for lyric alteration on p. [3] in the hand of Jerome Kern
BOX-FOLDER 2/29 Time: the Present
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [9] p.
Today's the Day (To Make Way for Tomorrow)
see Make Way for Tomorrow
Note: Alternate title
BOX-FOLDER 2/30 Tropical Night
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [3] p.
What I Love to Hear
see That's the Best of All
Note: Early title
BOX-FOLDER 2/31 Who's Complaining?
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [7] p.
BOX 2 Crazy Quilt (unproduced revue?, 1924?)
BOX-FOLDER 2/32 Opening
IG holograph lyric sheet; [2] p.
Note: This item is not related to Crazy Quilt [revue, 1931]
BOX 2 Crazy Quilt (revue, 1931)
BOX-FOLDER 2/33 In the Merry Month of Maybe
Manuscript piano score; [4] p.
Note: This item is not related to Crazy Quilt [unproduced revue, 1924]
BOX-FOLDER 2/33 In the Merry Month of Maybe
Typescript lyric sheet
Note: This item is not related to Crazy Quilt [unproduced revue, 1924]
BOX 3, 135 A Damsel in Distress (film, 1937)
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 A Foggy Day (In London Town)
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; 1, 2, 3 p.
Note: Refrain has no lyric
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 A Foggy Day (In London Town)
Photocopy of sheet music (German edition)
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 A Foggy Day (In London Town)
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 I Can't Be Bothered Now
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; 1, 2, 2 p.
Note: No lyric
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 I Can't Be Bothered Now
Typescript lyric sheet
BOX-FOLDER 135/8 The Jolly Tar and the Milkmaid
GG holograph manuscript piano score; [4] p.
Note: Emendations in an unknown hand
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 The Jolly Tar and the Milkmaid
Typescript lyric sheet
The Mother of Three
see The Jolly Tar and the Milkmaid
Note: Alternate title
BOX-FOLDER 3/6 Nice Work if You Can Get It
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; 1, 5, [1] p.
Note: No lyric
Note: Original manuscript a gift of Ira Gershwin; additional page 3 a purchase from Katharine Weber
BOX-FOLDER 135/3 Nice Work if You Can Get It
GG holograph manuscript lead sheet sketch, [1] p.
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