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BOX 1-11, 14, 27 Music, 1926-1994
This series contains holograph and printed music for revues, musicals, films, and popular songs that Burton Lane composed. Materials consist of piano-vocal scores, scores for piano, piano-conductor scores, vocal scores, songbooks, sketchbooks, and lyric sheets. The show music represents his collaborations with prominent lyricists such as Harold Adamson, Howard Dietz, Ralph Freed, E. Y. (Edgar Yipsel) Harburg, and Alan Jay Lerner, as well as his work as a songwriter for films for MGM and Paramount studios. The series includes a significant amount of holograph music for Broadway shows, including Finian’s Rainbow (1947), which ran for 725 performances, as well as Hold On to Your Hats (1940), Laffing Room Only (1944), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965), and Carmelina (1979). Other notable items include holograph music for songs that Lane wrote at age fifteen for the unproduced revue Greenwich Village Follies (1927), printed music from the films Dancing Lady (1933) and Royal Wedding (1951), and a holograph piano-vocal score for his popular song “And Suddenly It’s Christmas.”
Arranged in four file units: Shows, Popular Songs, Lyric Sheets, and Sketchbooks. Arranged alphabetically by title therein.
Shows
Artists and Models (stage musical), 1930
Lyrics by Sammy Lerner
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 My Real Ideal, 1930
Negative photostat of piano-vocal score
Artists and Models (motion picture), 1937
Lyrics by Ted Koehler
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Pop Goes the Bubble (and Soap Gets in My Eyes), 1937
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Stop! You're Breakin' My Heart, 1937
Printed piano-vocal score
Babes on Broadway (motion picture), 1941
Lyrics by Ralph Freed and E. Y. (Edgar Yipsel) Harburg
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Anything Can Happen in New York, undated
Blue-line of piano-vocal score; Ozalid of piano-vocal score
Includes: Annotations
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Babes on Broadway, undated
Blue-line of piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Blackout Over Broadway, undated
Blue-line of piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry On!, 1941
Printed piano-vocal scores
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 How About You?, 1941, 1969, and undated
Printed piano-vocal scores; photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Tap It Out, undated
Blue-line of piano-vocal score
Blonde Trouble (motion picture), 1937
Lyrics by Ralph Freed
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 It Was All in Fun, undated
Ozalid of holograph piano-vocal score
Bottoms Up (motion picture), 1934
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Bottoms Up, 1934
Photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Little Did I Dream, 1934
Photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Turn on the Moon, undated
Photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
Café Society (motion picture), 1939
Lyrics by Frank Loesser
BOX-FOLDER 1/6 Kiss Me with Your Eyes, 1939
Photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
Carmelina (stage musical), 1979
see also Someone in April
Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 All That He Wants Me to Be, undated
Holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 All That He Wants Me to Be - Dance, undated
Ozalid of score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 1/8 Come with Me to San Francisco, undated
Holograph piano-vocal score; Ozalid of holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/9 Finale Act 2, undated
Ozalid of piano-conductor score
BOX-FOLDER 1/10 I Must Have Her, undated
Holograph piano-vocal scores
BOX-FOLDER 1/11 I'm a Woman, undated
Holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/12 The Image of Me, undated
Photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/12 The Image of Me - Reprise, undated
Ozalid of piano-conductor score
BOX-FOLDER 1/13 It's Time for a Love Song, 1979 and undated
Ozalid of piano-conductor score; printed piano-vocal scores
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 Love Before Breakfast, undated
Holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 Love Before Breakfast - Reprise, undated
Ozalids of piano-vocal scores
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 Love Before Breakfast - Revised, 1979
Ozalid of piano-conductor score
BOX-FOLDER 1/15 One More Walk Around the Garden, 1979
Printed piano-vocal scores
BOX-FOLDER 1/16 Prologue and Overture, 1979 and undated
Ozalids of piano-conductor scores
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Sigñora Campbell, undated
Ozalid of piano-conductor score
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Sigñora Campbell - Reprise, undated
Ozalid of holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Sigñora Campbell - Revised, 1979
Ozalid of piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Someone in April, undated
Ozalid piano-conductor scores; typescript lyric sheets
BOX-FOLDER 2/2 Someone in April - Reprise, undated
Holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/3 Tittle Song, undated
Holograph piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 Why Him?, 1979 and undated
Holograph piano-vocal score; photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Yankee Doodles Are Coming to Town, undated
Holograph piano-vocal score; Ozalid of piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Unidentified, undated
Holograph piano-vocal score (incomplete)
Champagne Waltz (motion picture), 1937
Lyrics by Ralph Freed
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 When Is a Kiss Not a Kiss, 1936
Printed piano-vocal score
College Holiday (motion picture), 1936
Lyrics by Ralph Freed and Leo Robin
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 The Sweetheart Waltz, 1936
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Who's That Knockin' at My Heart, 1936
Printed piano-vocal scores
College Swing (motion picture), 1938
Lyrics by Frank Loesser and Ralph Freed
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 Moments Like This, 1938
Printed piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/9 What Did Romeo Say to Juliet?, 1938
Printed piano-vocal score
Cocoanut Grove (motion picture), 1938
Lyrics by Burton Lane, Frank Loesser, Jack Rock, and Alfred Santell
BOX-FOLDER 2/10 Says My Heart, 1938
Printed piano-vocal score; photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
Coming Out Party (motion picture), 1934
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
BOX-FOLDER 2/11 I Think You're Wonderful, 1934
Printed piano-vocal score
Dancing Lady (motion picture), 1933
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Everything I Have Is Yours, 1933
Printed piano-vocal scores
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Heigh-Ho! The Gang's All Here, 1933
Blue-line of piano-vocal score
BOX-FOLDER 2/12 Let's Go Bavarian, 1933
Blue-line of piano-vocal score; photocopy of printed piano-vocal score
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