SAM DeVINCENT COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC, ca. 1790 - 1987
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Container List

Series 4: Songwriters, 1847-1975

by: Robert S. Harding & Cooby Greenway, 1994

Subseries 4.10: Gus Edwards, 1898-1935

Box 31

Folder

A-F -- General Songs, 1899-1928, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A-C -- Collaboration with Will D. Cobb, 1899-1918; 1928

A -- 1899-1906:

Includes: "Gee, It Must Be Tough to Be a Rich Man's Kid," "I'll Get You," and "Two Dirty Hands." Covers are missing from "My Lonesome Little Louisiana Lady" and one copy of "Somebody's Sweetheart I Want to Be." One edition of "I Can't Tell You Why I Love You, But I Do" is a piano arrangement without lyrics. (31 items)

B -- 1901-1906; 1928:

Multiple editions of  "I'll Be with You When Roses Bloom Again" and "I'll Do Anything in the World for You." (18 items)

C -- 1907-1918:

Includes: "For You a Rose," "Light Up Your Face with a Smile," and "On a Beautiful Night." (26 items)

D -- Collaboration with Ed Gardenier, 1907-1909

Includes: "Dear Old East Side," "School Mates," and "Some Day, Sweetheart, Some Day" (cover missing from one edition). (10 items)

E-F -- Collaboration with others, 1905-1928

E -- 1905-1928:

Includes: "He's Me Pal," "Tammany," and "Those Lying Lips." (35 items)

Box 32

Folder

F -- 1909:

Multiple editions of "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." (9 items)

G -- African American Songs, 1898-1912

Includes: "All I Wants Is My Black Baby Back," "My Charcoal Charmer," and "What's the Use of Knockin'." Also see Folders N and O. (11 items)

H -- Italian American Songs, 1908-1913

Includes: "Mister Pagliatch" and "Since My Margarette Become-a-da Suffragette." (8 items)

I -- Armed Conflict Songs, 1907-1919

Includes: "Laddie Boy," "My Rainbow Ribbon Girl," and "Tell That to the Marines!"
(20 items)

J -- Drinking (Prohibition) Song, 1919

Contains: "America Never Took Water and America Never Will." (1 item)

K -- Instrumental Compositions, 1908-1913

Contains: "Moon Path" and "San Diego, a Coronada Serenade." (2 items)

L-O -- Musical Theater Productions, 1903-1932

L -- SCHOOL BOYS AND GIRLS, 1906-1908; 1925:

Includes: "Sunbonnet Sue" and "School Days." (24 items)

M -- ZIEGFELD FOLLIES Songs, 1906-1912:

Includes: "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave," "That English Rag," and "When the Do-do Bird is Singing in the Coca-Cola Tree." The cover drawing for "My Cousin Caruso" is by Enrico Caruso. (8 items)

N -- GUS EDWARDS SONG REVUES, 1911-1924:

Includes: "Jimmy Valentine," "Mother Hubbard Was a Wise Old Dame," and "You've Got to Stop a Pickin' on My Li'l Pickaninny." (13 items)

O -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1903-1932:

"Ask Me Not," 1906, VERONIQUE
"First Love," 1915, PASSING SHOW OF 1915
"Have You Seen My Baby?" 1908, THE MERRY-GO-ROUND,
    Chicago Sunday Examiner, November 15, 1908
"I Love Only One Girl in This Wide, Wide World," 1903 THE WIZARD OF OZ
"I'm Going to Let the Whole Wild World Know I Love You," 1914, 
   MATINEE GIRLS
"In Zanzibar," 1904, THE MEDAL AND THE MAID
"Johnny, I'll Take You," 1904, THE WIZARD OF OZ
"Little Miss Killarney," 1913, OUT ON BROADWAY
"Ma Mamselle Honee," 1903, THE ENGLISH DAISY
"Marching By," 1932, MARCHING BY
"Member When?" 1923, SUNBONNET SUE
"My Idea of a Girl," 1913, OUT ON BROADWAY
"See-Saw," 1907, THE RUBE KIDS
"The Songbird of Melody Lane," 1902, MR. BLUEBIRD
"When Eyes Meet Eyes, When Lips Meet Lips," 1922, THE FRENCH DOLL
"When I Went to School with You," 1917, HITCHY-KOO
"When the Music Starts to Play," 1908, THE MERRY-GO-ROUND
(19 items)

P -- Motion Picture Productions, 1909-1929

"By the Light of the Silvery Moon, 1909, THE JOLSON STORY
"I've Waited a Lifetime for You,"1929, OUR MODERN MAIDENS
"Nobody But You,"1929, HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929
"Orange Blossom Time,"1929, HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929
"Your Mother and Mine"1929 from HOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1929.
(4 items)

Q -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1900-1929; 1933-1935

Includes: "A Little Bit's Better Than Nothing at All," "School Days," 
"See-Saw," and "On a Beautiful Night with a Beautiful Girl." (10 items)

Subseries 4.93: Leo Edwards, 1905-1937

Box 145

Folder

A-B -- General Songs, 1905-1919,not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1905-1919:

Includes: "Mister Butterfly," "Napoli," and "Sunbeam Sal." (15 items)

B -- 1906:

Multiple editions of "That's What She Said to Me." (7 items)

C -- African American Song, 1912, "If Every Little Star Was a Little Pickaninny." 
       (1 item)

D -- Instrumental Compositions, 1913-1921

Contains: "Isle D'Amour" and "Rendezvous D'Amour." (2 items)

E -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1907-1915

"First Love," 1915, THE PASSING SHOW OF 1915
"I'd Like to Find Another Girl Like Mary," 1914, THE MAID OF THE ORIENT
"If You Must Make Eyes at Someone," 1907, THE GAY WHITE WAY
"Isle D'Amour," 1913, ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1913
"My Honeymoon," 1907, YAMA
"My Hula Maid," 1915, THE PASSING SHOW OF 1915
"The Primrose Way," 1915, THE PASSING SHOW OF 1915
"Strike Up a Bagpipe Tune," 1910, THE MERRY WHIRL
"Sweetheart My Rose," 1911, THE BEHMAN SHOW
"You're in Love," 1907, TOO NEAR HOME
(15 items)

F -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1913-1937

Contains: "Moonlight Madness" and "Play Me a Rag." (2 items)

Subseries 4.94: Joseph Kline Emmet, 1876-1940, n.d.

Box 146

Folder

A -- General Songs, 1917-1940, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

Contains: "Emmet's Lullaby" and "Sweet Violets." (2 items)

B -- Instrumental Composition, 1884, "Cuckoo Song." (1 item)

C -- Musical Theater Production, 1876-1882; n.d.,"Lullaby" and "Sweet
        Violets," FRITZ, OUR GERMAN COUSIN. (13 items)

Subseries 4.95: Ernie Erdman, 1900-1931; 1949

Box 146

Folder

A-D -- General Songs, 1903-1931, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1903-1913:

Includes: "Because I Have You," "I Heard the Holy City," "I Want to Sleep," and "Oh, You Girl!" (23 items)

B -- 1912-1914:

Multiple editions of "Down at the Barbecue" and "Sail on Silv'ry Moon." 
(15 items)

C -- 1914-1919:

Includes: "Bouncing at the Rubber Ball," "The Hours I Spent with Thee," 
and "Jean."
(16 items)

D -- 1920-1931; 1950:

Includes: "Jing-a-ling-a-ling," "No, No, Nora," and "Toot, Toot, Tootsie." 
(21 items)

E -- African American Songs, 1900-1922

Includes: "At the High Brown Babies Ball," "The Louisiana Lullaby," and "Virginia Blues."
(9 items)

F -- Irish Songs, 1914-1915

Contains: "Home Rule for Ireland," "I'm a Long Way from Tipperary," and "The Irish Blues." (4 items)

G -- Ethnic Songs, Miscellaneous, 1911-1922

Contains: "Oh, That Oriental Rag" and "Tee-Pee Blues." (2 items)

H -- Armed Conflict Songs, 1904-1913

Contains: "I Love the Whole United States" and "Mid Shot and Shell." (3 items)

I --Drinking Song, 1919, "The Great American Desert." (1 item)

J -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1913-1931; 1949

Includes: "Pal of the Little Red School." (6 items)

K -- Folio, n.d., untitled, includes "Clover Blossom Blues," 1922. (1 item)

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