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Music, 1913-1954 (continued)
Music from Shows (continued)
Blah, Blah, Blah (continued)
Typescript lyric sheets; [4] p.
Note: includes “Russian” refrain
Laid in: IG typescript description; 1 p.
Blah! Blah! Love!
see Blah, Blah, Blah
Note: Alternate title
BOX-FOLDER 4/12 Delishious
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal sketch; [3] p.
Note: Refrain only, no lyric, with added countermelody
Laid in: IG typescript description; 1 p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/13 Delishious
Manuscript piano-vocal score; [5] p.
Note: Verse (no lyric) in the hand of Kay Swift
Note: Refrain (with lyric) in the hand of a copyist
Note: Title and music credit in the hand of GG
Note: Corrections to lyric in the hand of IG
Note: Introduction and emendations in the hand of Albert Sirmay
BOX-FOLDER 4/14 Delishious
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; 6 p.
Note: Emendations in the hand of Albert Sirmay
BOX-FOLDER 4/14 Delishious
Corrected publisher’s 1st proof piano-vocal score; p. 2-5
BOX-FOLDER 4/14 Delishious
Corrected publisher’s 2nd proof piano-vocal score; p. 2-5
BOX-FOLDER 4/14 Delishious
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [3] p.
Caption title: You’re So Delishious
Note: Instructions to copyist on p. [1] in the hand of Albert Sirmay
BOX-FOLDER 4/15 Delishious
GG holograph manuscript sketch for piano solo; 1 p.
Note: On p. [2] is the opening fragment of a piano solo arrangement of "Nice baby!"
BOX-FOLDER 4/16 Delishious
Arranged for male quartet and piano by Bert Reed
Manuscript (incorporating printed accompaniment) vocal score; 5 p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/16 Delishious
Arranged for male quartet and piano by Bert Reed
Corrected publisher’s 1st proof; 9 p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/17 Dream Sequence
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; 8 p.
Note: Lyric and accompaniment omitted on p. 8
Laid in: IG typescript description; 1 p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/18 Dream Sequence
Copyist manuscript piano-conductor score; 9 p.
Note: GG holograph signature
Laid in: IG holograph description; 1 p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/18 Dream Sequence
IG typescript scenario/lyric sheets; [4] p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/19 Katinkitschka
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/19 Katinkitschka
Photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-conductor score; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/19 Katinkitschka
Corrected publisher’s 2nd proof piano-vocal score; p. 3-5
Typescript lyric sheets; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/19 Katinkitschka
Typescript lyric sheets; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/20 Somebody from Somewhere
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal sketch; [3] p.
Note: No lyric
Laid in: IG typescript description; 1 p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/21 Somebody from Somewhere
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; 4 p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/21 Somebody from Somewhere
Photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 4/21 Somebody from Somewhere
Publisher’s 2nd proof piano-vocal score; p. 3-5
BOX-FOLDER 4/21 Somebody from Somewhere
IG typescript lyric sheet
We’re from the Journal, the Wahrheit, the Telegram, the Times
see Dream Sequence
Note: Alternate title
Welcome to the Melting Pot
see Dream Sequence
Note: Alternate title
BOX-FOLDER 4/22 You Started It
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; [2] p.
Note: Verse only, no lyric
BOX-FOLDER 4/23 You Started It
Photocopy of GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; [2] p.
Note: Lyric in ink, in an unknown hand, added circa 1970s
BOX-FOLDER 4/23 You Started It
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; [2] p.
Note: Refrain only, no lyric
BOX-FOLDER 4/23 You Started It
Photocopy of copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; [2] p.
Note: Lyric in ink, in an unknown hand, circa 1970s
BOX-FOLDER 4/23 You Started It
IG holograph/typescript lyric sheets; [8] p.
Laid in: Descriptions in the hands of IG and Michael Feinstein; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 5/1 Final shooting script
Typescript (mimeograph); [8], 98 p.
Demi-Tasse
see Capitol Revue
Demi Tasse Revue
see Capitol Revue
BOX 5 East is West (unproduced, 1928-1929)
Awake, Children, Awake
see Lyric sheets
Dragon Song
see Lyric sheets
East is West
see Lyric sheets
I Speak English Now
see Lyric sheets
BOX-FOLDER 5/2 In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden
GG holograph manuscript piano-vocal score; 4 p.
Note: Unfinished early draft
BOX-FOLDER 5/3 In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden
Manuscript piano-vocal score in the hands of GG and Kay Swift; 1, 6 p.
Note: Ink portion copied by Swift from GG’s early draft (Box-Folder 5/2)
Note: Pencil portion in the hand of GG
BOX-FOLDER 5/4 In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden
Copyist manuscript piano-vocal score; 8 p.
Note: Expressive markings in black ink are in the hand of GG
Note: Expressive markings in pencil are in the hand of Albert Sirmay
BOX-FOLDER 5/5 Lady of the Moon
see also Lyric sheets
GG holograph manuscript piano sketch; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 5/6 Sing-Song Girl [unfinished]
see also Lyric sheets
Manuscript piano-vocal score in the hand of Kay Swift and one photocopy; 1 p. each
Caption title : How Sad it Is to Be a Sing Song Girl; in the hand of IG
Note: No lyric
BOX-FOLDER 5/6 Sing-Song Girl [unfinished]
see also Lyric sheets
Manuscript piano score; [3] p.
Note: Unidentified fragment on p. [2]
BOX-FOLDER 5/7 Under the Cinnamon Tree
see also Lyric sheets
Manuscript piano-vocal sketch, probably in the hand of William Daly; [3] p.
Note: No lyric, unfinished?
BOX-FOLDER 5/8 Under the Cinnamon Tree
Manuscript piano score; [3] p.
Note: Unidentified sketch on verso of p. [1]
BOX-FOLDER 5/9 We are Visitors Here [unfinished]
see also Lyric sheets and Meadow Serenade from Strike Up the Band
Photocopy of manuscript piano score in the hand of Kay Swift; 1 p.
Note: First 10 bars only
Yellow Blues
see Lyric sheets and Song file #42: Impromptu in Two Keys
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