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 4.17: Carrie Jacobs Bond, 1897-1942

Box 55

Folder

A-K -- General Songs, 1897-1942, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1897-1901:

Includes: "The Pansy and Forget-me-not" and "Still Unexprest." A portrait of Dr. Frank Lewis Bond, the composer's husband, is on the cover of "Someone I Love Is Coming." (8 items)

B -- "Just Awearyin' for You," 1901. (30 items)

C -- "Shadows," 1901. (26 items)

D -- "I Love You Truly," 1906, large-size editions. (26 items)

E -- "I Love You Truly," 1906-1915, smaller editions. (24 items)

Box 56

Folder

F -- 1907-1915:

Includes: "O Haunting Memory," "Robin Adair," and "The Soul of You." The cover artwork of "Do You Remember" is initialed 'CJB.' Lyrics to "Life's Garden" are by Fred Jacobs Smith. (24 items)

G -- "A Perfect Day," 1910.

Large editions for High and Low voices. (19 items)

H -- "A Perfect Day," 1910, large editions for Medium voices. (20 items)

I -- "A Perfect Day," 1910, small editions:

Includes: an arrangement for men's chorus. (21 items)

Box 57

Box 58

Folder

Q -- Special Editions, 1907

Madame Schumann-Heink Covers, 1907: These editions appear to be limited to two songs, "His Lullaby' and "Longing," with Mme. Schumann-Heink's photograph on either the cover or the inner page. Two covers are included, 
with no inner pages. (8 items)

R-T -- Folios, 1897-1907. These dates refer to copyright dates of individual 
            songs as none of the folios carries a publication date.

R -- Songs Everybody Sings, ca. 1930:

Contains thirty songs; also a biographical sketch, with images of the 
composer and her home. (4 items)

S -- Seven Songs Folio, n.d.:

Includes "I Love You Truly" and "Just A-wearyin' for You." Also three poems written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond. (9 items)

T -- Other Folios, 1897-1907:

Contains: Nine Songs, Ten Songs, and Twelve Songs. (3 items)

Subseries 4.127: Gordon Jenkins, 1933-1962

Box 177

Folder

A-B -- General Songs, 1933-1945, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- Songs by Jenkins, 1933-1945

 

Includes:  "Blue Prelude" and "Good-Bye."  (9 items)

B -- Songs by Others, 1936-1952; 1953, covers feature Jenkins' photo.

 

Includes: "Maybe You'll Be There" and "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You."  (9 items)

C-D -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1933-1962

C -- Songs By Jenkins, 1933-1962:


Includes: "Blue Evening" and "The Sound of Silence."   (5 items)

D -- Songs by Others, 1950;1952:


Contains: "From the Time You Say Goodbye."   (2 items)

E -- Folio, 1934-1964, A Gordon Jenkins Musical Bonanza.  (1 item)

Subseries 4.128: Harry Jentes, 1913-1940

Box 177

Folder

A -- General Songs, 1913-1920, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

 

Includes: "How Can Any Girlie Be a Good Little Girl," "Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go," and "Some Girls Do and Some Girls Don't."   (16 items)

B -- African American Song, 1914, "When They Christened Brother 
       Johnson's  Child" (photocopy of cover only).  (1 item)

C -- Armed Conflict Songs, 1915-1917


Includes: "I Don't Want to Get Well."  (4 items)    

D -- Instrumental Compositions, 1913-1923


Contains: "California Sunshine," "Madrid," and "Smiles and Kisses."  (3 items)

E -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1915-1940


Contains: "At the Fountain of Youth," "I Fell Over Myself," and "Winter in Havana."  (3 items)

Subseries 4.18: Charles L. Johnson, 1899-1936

Box 59

Folder

A-G General Songs, 1899-1920, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1899-1912;1920:

Includes: "Deep in My Heart, Beloved," "If I Only Had a Sweetheart," and "Meet Me Where the Shadows Fall." The front and back covers of "Little Star Won't You Twinkle" appear different from the inner pages which include songs by several other composers also. "When May and I Were Sweethearts Long Ago" credits George H. McCrary with the lyrics, but a later song that appears to be the same tune in a different key, "When You and I Were Sweethearts Long Ago," has different lyrics and only Johnson credited. (27 items)

B -- 1911-1913:

Multiple editions of "Dream Days," "School Life," and "When I Dream of You." (21 items)

C -- 1913:

Multiple editions of "Shadow Time." (16 items)

D -- 1913-1919:

Includes: "Croon Time," "Golden Hours," and "With You." (25 items)

E -- 1914-1923:

Multiple editions of "In the Hills of Old Kentucky" and "When Clouds Have Vanished and Skies Are Blue." (18 items)

Box 60

Folder

F -- 1919:

Multiple editions of "Sweet and Low." (One edition is cover only). (12 items)

G -- 1921-1936:

Includes: "By the Silvery Nile," "Can You Bring Back the Heart I Gave You," and "Jubilee in the Sky." (13 items)

H -- American Indian Songs, 1906-1911

Contains: "Iola" and "Silver Star." (10 items)

I -- African American Songs, 1912-1913

Contains: "I'm Goin', Good Bye, I'm Gone" and "Ma Pickaninny Babe." (6 items)

J-L -- Instrumental Compositions, 1902-1918

J -- Reveries and dance music, 1902-1918; 1935:

Includes: "Barn Dance," "The Blushing Rose," "Dill Picklees,"(cover only) "The Harvest Hop," and "Honeysuckle." Also, instrumental versions of "Croon Time," "Golden Hours," and "Shadow Time." (28 items)

K -- Waltzes, 'Fairy' titles, 1909-1913:

Contains: "Dream of the Fairies," "Fairy Kisses," "Fairy's Dream," and "Wedding of the Fairies." (22 items)

L -- Waltzes, 1910-1915:

Includes: "Cassandra," "Heart Fancies," and "Queen of Fashion." "The Merry Widow Valse," n.d., is Johnson's arrangement of Franz Lehar melodies. (9 items)

M -- Professional/ Artist Copies, 1913-1939


Contains: "Carry Me On, Old Pardner," "Dream Day," and "Wedding of the Fairies." (3 items)

Subseries 4.129: Isham Jones, 1915-1948

Box 177

Box 178

Folder

D-E -- Collaboration with Gus Kahn, 1922-1927

D -- 1922-1927:

 

Includes:  "Broken Hearted Melody," "The One I Love," and "Spain."  (37 items)

E -- 1923-1924; 1939:

 

Multiple editions of "I'll See You in My Dreams" (one edition missing inner page), "It Had to Be You," and "Swingin' Down the Lane."  (21 items)

F-G -- Collaboration with Charles Newman, 1929-1933

F -- 1929-1933:

 

Includes: "I Wouldn't Change You for the World," and "What's the Use." 
(24 items)

G -- 1932:

 

Multiple editions of "I'll Never Have to Dream Again" and "The Wooden Soldier and the China Doll."    (12 items)

H -- African American Songs, 1915-1919

 

Contains: "At the Dixie Jubilee" and "Bless Your Little Heart".  (2 items)

I -- Armed Conflict Song, 1917-1918

 

Contains: "There's One More River We're Going to Cross" and "We're in the Army Now."  (4 items)

J -- Patriotic Song, 1917, "America, Won't You Take Me Back to You."  (1 item)

K -- Ragtime/Instrumental, 1918, "Indigo Blues."  (1 item)

L -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1919-1925

 

"Meet Me in Bubbleland," 1919, PASSING SHOW OF 1918
"My Castle in Spain," 1925, BY THE WAY 
(5 items)

M -- Motion Picture Songs, Miscellaneous, 1924; 1939

 

"I'll See You in My Dreams, 1924, I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS
"It Had to Be You," 1924; 1939, SHOW BUSINESS 
(2 items)

N -- Songs by Others, 1921-1934; cover sheets feature Jones' image, or 
        songs published by his company.


Includes: "Aunt Hagar's Blues," "Lazybones," and "Wabash Blues."   
(20 items)

O -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1924-1948


Includes: "It's Funny to Everyone But Me" and "She Picked It Up in Mexico."  
(27 items)

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