SAM DeVINCENT COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC, ca. 1790 - 1987
#300

Container List

Series 4: Songwriters, 1847-1975

by: Robert S. Harding & Cooby Greenway, 1994

Subseries 4.140: Vee Lawnhurst and Tot Seymour, 1919-1944

Box 186

Folder

A-C -- General Songs, 1919-1944, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- Tot Seymour with Others, 1919-1933:


Includes: "Arlene," "Good Evenin'," and "Swingin' in a Hammock."  (16 items)

B -- Vee Lawnhurst Alone and with Others, 1929-1940:


Includes: "Goodnight Mother," "I'm Keepin' Company," and "'Taint Nobody's Fault But My Own."  (11 items)

C -- Lawnhurst and Seymour Together, 1935-1944:


Includes: "And Then Some," "Cross Patch," "The Day I Let You Get Away," and "What's the Name of That Song?"  (16 items)


D -- Motion Picture Productions, Miscellaneous, 1925-1936


"Accent on Youth," 1935, ACCENT ON YOUTH
"The Call of the Prairie," 1936, CALL OF THE PRAIRIE  (2 items)

E-G -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1930-1944

E -- Seymour with Others, 1930-1939:


Includes: "Better Think Twice," "I'm Makin' Hay in the Moonlight," "A
Picnic for Two," and "Pretending You Care."    (13 items)

F -- Lawnhurst with Others, 1933-1940:

 

Contains: "Don't Change," "Goodnight Mother," "I Couldn't Tell Them
What to Do," and "I've Got My Fingers Crossed."   (5 items)

G -- Lawnhurst and Seymour Together, 1935-1944:


Includes: "Abou Ben Boogie," "How'd Ya Learn How?" and "Same Old Line."   (15 items)

H -- Folio, 1930-1934


Fifty Starsongs contains two songs by Seymour in collaboration with others: "Get Going" and "I'm Cuttin' Out Paper Dolls."  (1 item).

Box 186

Folder

A-C  General Songs, 1929-1953; 1955, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1929-1953; 1955:


Includes: "Beyond the Sea," "Concerto for Two," "If I Didn't Care," and "Sunrise Serenade."  (37 items)

B -- 1930; 1940:


Multiple editions of "Sleepy Lagoon."  (8 items)

C -- 1945-1946:


Multiple editions of "Linda" and "Symphony."  (15 items)

D -- Motion Picture Production, 1937, "Have You Ever Been in Heaven,"
        MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND.  (2 items)

E -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1936-1954; 1955


Includes: "All or Nothing at All," "Big Boy Blue," and "Song of the Barefoot Contessa."  (25 items)

Subseries 4.142: Eddie Leonard, 1903-1929; 1932

Box 187

Folder

A -- General Songs, 1903-1927; 1932, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.


Includes: "Bessie," "Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider," "Oh! Didn't It Rain,"
and "Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire."  (15 items)

B -- African American Songs, 1904-1927


Includes: "Big Brown Booloo Eyes," "Molasses Candy," and "Sweetness."   
(13 items)

C -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1912-1929


Contains: "Beautiful," from MELODY LANE, and four songs from
ROLY BOLY EYES, only one of which was written by Leonard.  
(6 items)

D -- Songs by Others, 1901-1925, having Leonard's picture or name 
        on the cover.         


Includes: "Eddie Leonard Blues," "I'm Goin' to Love Anyhow  til I Die,"
and "Never Do Nuthin' for Nobody."  (13 items)

E -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1922-1928

 

Contains: "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider" and  "Roll Them Roly Boly Eyes."  
(2 items)

Subseries 4.143: Edgar Leslie, 1909-1949

Box 187

Folder

A-C -- General Songs, 1909-1938, not related to stage, screen or other topical categories.

A -- 1909-1918:


Includes: "For Me and My Gal" and "Put It On, Take It Off."  (32 items)

B -- 1919-1937:


Includes: "It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane," "Mistakes," "Moon over Miami," "Now That I Need You, You're Gone," and "Oh! What a Pal Was Mary."  An insert in "A Little Nightie Hanging on the Line" advertises two songs not written by Leslie: "Kentucky Lullaby" and "The Pal You Left at Home."  
(40 items)

Box 188

Folder

C -- 1927:


Multiple editions of "Among My Souvenirs."  (18 items)

D -- Armed Conflict Song, 1918, "When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band 
        to France."  (1 item)

E -- Patriotic Song, 1915, "America, I Love You."  (2 items)

F -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1916-1938


"At a Perfume Counter," 1938, BILLY ROSES'S CASSA MANANA
"Come on Papa," 1918 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
"Midnight Blue," 1936, ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1936
"When You Grow to Be Twenty One," 1916, BETTY
(5 items)

G -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1918-1949


Includes: "Blue and Broken Hearted," "Hay Hay Farmer Gray," and "The
Moon Was Yellow (and the Night Was Young)."  Piano arrangements are
included with four other songs.  (34 items)

Subseries 4.144: Al Lewis, Al Sherman, & Abner Silver, 1918-1955

Box 188

Folder

A-B -- General Songs, 1919-1954, not related to stage, screen or other topical categories.

A -- Lewis and Sherman in Collaboration with Others, 1919-1954:


Includes: "All American Girl," "Pretending," and "A Siren Dream."  "My Home Town" has inner page only.  (32 items)

B -- Abner Silver in Collaboration with Lewis, Sherman, and Others, 1921-1945:


Includes: "After Awhile," "For Sentimental Reasons," and "No! No! A Thousand Times No!" (29 items)

C -- Armed Conflict Song, 1942, "Ten Little Soldiers."  (1 item)

D -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1918-1933


"Angel Child," 1922, SPICE OF 1922
"Bebe," 1923, ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
"Follow Me to Dixieland," 1918, OVER HERE
"I Loved You Wednesday," 1933,  I LOVED YOU WEDNESDAY
"I'm Goin' South," 1923, BOMBO
"More," 1923, GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS
"My Home Town Is a One Horse Town" (cover only), 1920, ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1920 
(13 items)

E -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1920-1955


Includes: "I Got the Potatoes, I Got the Tomatoes," "Smooth Sailing," and "Today I Am a Man!"  (54 items)

Subseries 4.145: Sam M. Lewis, George W. Meyer,  and Joe Young, 1906-1947; 1951

Box 189

Folder

A-G  General Songs, 1906-1947, not related to stage, screen or other topical categories.

A -- Lewis in Collaboration with Others, 1906-1940


Includes: "A Beautiful Lady in Blue," "One Minute to One," and "Put Me to Sleep with an Old Fashioned Melody."   (14 items)

B-D -- Meyer Alone and in Collaboration with Others, 1907-1947

B -- 1907-1919:


Includes: "Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia," "Honey Love," and "I'm Awfully Glad I Met You."  (45 items)

C -- 1914-1925:


Multiple editions of "Brown Eyes Why Are You Blue?" "For Me and My Gal," "The High Cost of Loving," and "Sittin' in a Corner." (27 items)

D -- 1920-1947:


Includes: "I'm Sure of Everything But You," "There Are Such Things," and "To Whom It May Concern."  (16 items)


E-G -- Meyer in Collaboration with Sam M. Lewis and/or Joe Young, 1912-1934

E -- 1912-1913:


Multiple editions of "That Mellow Melody" and "Always Take a Girl Named Daisy."  (14 items)

Box 190

Folder

F -- 1912-1934:


Includes: "My Mother's Rosary," "Ten-Ten-Tennessee," "That Naughty Melody," and "Yaddie Kaddie Kiddie Kaddie Koo."  (50 items)

G -- 1915-1921:


Multiple editions of "I'm a Lonesome Melody" and "Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old 'Tucky Home."  (13 items)

H -- Young in Collaboration with Others, 1912-1935


Includes: "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town," "Let By-Gones Be By-Gones," and "You're the Same Old Girl."  (32 items)

I-L -- Lewis and Young as Co-Lyricists with Others, 1916-1929; 1951

I -- 1916-1917:


Multiple editions of "Arrah Go on I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon" and "Huckleberry Finn."   (13 items)

J -- 1918-1922:


Includes: "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm," "I'd Love to Fall Asleep and Wake Up in My Mammy's Arms," and "Poor Little Butterfly Is a Fly Girl Now."  (32 items)

K -- 1920-1922:


Multiple editions of "Just a Little Love Song" and "Old Pal."  (18 items)

Box 191

Folder

L -- 1923-1929; 1951:


Includes: "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue," "Love (My Heart Is Calling You)," and "Please."  (47 items)

M -- Lewis and Young with Harry Akst, 1921-1926


Includes "Dinah," "He's a Panic" and "In My Bouquet of Memories."  (18 items)

N -- Ethnic Songs, Miscellaneous, 1909-1922


Contains Irish and American Indian subjects, including "If I Knock the L'out of Kelly" and "Hiawatha's Melody."  (13 items)

O -- Armed Conflict Song, 1917-1919    


Includes: "Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land," "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight," "Oh! What a Time for the Girlies," and "The Worst Is Yet to Come."   (14 items)

P -- Instrumental Compositions, 1910-1916

Contains: "Dance and Grow Thin," "March of the Mystic Shrine," and "My Girl."  (4 items)

Q -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1916-1920

"I Always Think I'm Up in Heaven When I'm Down in Dixieland," 1919,   
   MONTE CRISTO, JR.
"If I Knock the 'L' Out of Kelly," 1916, STEP THIS WAY
"Just a Little Love Song," 1922, THE BOX PARTY
"Night-time's the Right Time to Spoon with the Girl You Love," 1911, 
   LET GEORGE DO IT
"On the Level You're a Little Devil," 1918, PASSING SHOW OF 1918
"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," 1918, SINBAD
"Some Pretty Day," 1920, BITS AND PIECES
"Who Played Poker with Pocahantas (When John Smith Went Away)," 1919, MONTE CRISTO, JR.
(9 items)

R -- Motion Picture Productions, Miscellaneous, 1919-1930


"Cryin' for the Carolines," 1930, SPRING IS HERE
"Fires of Faith," 1919, FIRES OF FAITH
"I Love You, I Hate You," 1029, CAREERS
"Laugh! Clown! Laugh!" 1928, LAUGH CLOWN LAUGH
(4 items)

S-T -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1908-1942

S -- Lewis and Young with Others, 1908-1940; 1941:


Includes: "Just Friends," "Love, What Are You Doing to My Heart," and "My Barney Lies Over the Ocean."  (57 items)

T -- Meyer with Lewis/Young and Others, 1909-1942:


Includes: "Isch-Ga-bibble," "It Looks Like Rain," and "The Sun Is at My Window."  (39 items)

Subseries 4.146: Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, 1952-1958

Box 192

Folder

A -- General Songs, 1955-1958, not related to stage, screen or other topical categories.


Contains: "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" and "Yakety Yak."   
(2 items)

B -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1952-1957


Includes: "Hey, Mister" and "Loving You."  (6 items)

Subseries 4.147: Jack Little, 1924-1952

Box 192

Folder

A-C -- General Songs, 1924-1947, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1924-1929:


Includes: "After I've Called You Sweetheart," "Because They All Love You," 
and "Jealous." "The Hours I Spent with You" has "Someone Like You" on its reverse.   (37 items)

B -- 1926-1933:


Multiple editions of "Hold Me," "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town," "Pretty Little Thing," and "Ting-a-Ling."  (24 items)

C -- 1930-1947:


Includes: "I Promise You" and "When the Sun Bids the Moon Goodnight."   
(40 items)

D -- Songs by Others, 1930-1036, featuring photos of Little on the covers.   (3 items)

E -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1924-1952


Includes: "Anything Your Little Heart Desires," "I Can't Get Enough of You," and "There's Oceans of Love by the Beautiful Sea."  (38 items)

 

Subseries 4.148: Frank Loesser, 1937-1961

Box 193

Folder

A-B -- General Songs, 1938-1953, not related to stage, screen or other topical categories.

A -- 1938-1953:

 

Includes: "Bloop-Bleep," "I Wish I Were Twins," and "Two Sleepy People."   (11 items)

B -- 1943-1948:


Multiple editions of  "Have I Stayed Away Too Long," and "On a Slow Boat to China."  (16 items).

C -- Armed Conflict, 1942-1945


Includes: "First Class Mary Brown," "Praise the Lord and Pass the
Ammunition," "Rodger Young," and "What Did You Do in the Infantry." 
(14 items)

D -- Musical Theatre Productions, Miscellaneous, 1948-1961


"A Bushel and a Peck," 1950, GUYS AND DOLLS
"I Believe in You," 1961, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS
"If I Were a Bell," 1950, GUYS AND DOLLS
"My Darling, My Darling," 1948, WHERE'S CHARLEY?
"The New Ashmolean Marching Society and Students Conservatory Band," 
     1948, WHERE'S CHARLEY?
"Once in Love with Amy," 1948, WHERE'S CHARLEY?
"Standing on the Corner," 1956, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
(15 items)


E -- Motion Picture Productions, Miscellaneous, 1937-1951


"Anywhere I Wander," 1951, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON
"The Dreamer," 1943, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS
"The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker" (cover missing),1943, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
"Good Night Good Neighbor," 1943, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS
"How Sweet You Are," 1943, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS
"I Don't Want to Walk Without You," 1941, SWEATER GIRL
"I Said No," 1941, SWEATER GIRL
"Ice Cold Katy," 1943, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS (orchestrations only)
"I'm Riding for a Fall," 1943, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS
"In My Arms," 1943, SEE HERE PRIVATE HARGROVE
"Jingle Jangle Jingle," 1942, THE FOREST RANGERS
"Love Isn't Born," 1943, THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS
"The Moon of Manakoora," 1937, THE HURRICANE
"Poppa Don't Preach to Me," 1947, THE PERILS OF PAULINE
"Rumble, Rumble, Rumble," 1947, THE PERILS OF PAULINE
"Tallahassee," 1947, VARIETY GIRL   
(24 items)


F -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1934-1960.


Includes: "Dolores," "Kiss the Boys Goodbye," "Lovely One," and "Says My Heart." (70 items)

Subseries 4.149: Frederick Knight Logan and Virginia K. Logan, 1903-1925

Box 194

Folder

A-B  General Songs, 1905-1924, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1905-1924:


Includes: "Dreamy Sevilla," "Moonlight Waltz," and "Wishing That Dreams Would Come True."  (25 items)

B -- 1922:


Multiple editions of "Thru the Night."  (6 items)

C -- Ethnic Songs, Miscellaneous, 1906-1918


Contains: African American, American Indian, and Irish themes, including "Hush-a-bye, Ma Baby (Missouri Waltz)" (one edition missing inner pages).  
(12 items)

D -- Armed Conflict Song, 1917, "Military Waltz."   (2 items)

E-F -- Instrumental Compositions, 1904-1925; n.d.

E -- 1904-1925:


Includes: "In Old Vienna," "Star Blossom," and "Water Sprites." (15 items)

F -- 1916:


Multiple editions of "The Moonlight Waltz."  (5 items)

G -- Theater Productions, Instrumental Accompaniement, 1903-1905


"In the Cabbage Patch," 1903, MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH
"Wistaria," 1905, ON THE YELLOWSTONE
(2 items)

H -- Professional/Artist Copy, 1922, "Fallen Leaf."  (1 item)

Subseries 4.150: Carmen Lombardo, 1926-1957                               

Box 194

Folder

A-F  General Songs, 1926-1957, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1926-1929:


Includes: "Broken Hearted," and  "The Moonlight March," and "Sleepy Water."   (24 items)

B -- 1928:


Multiple editions of "A Lane in Spain," "Last Night I Dreamed You Kissed Me" and "Sweethearts on Parade."  (18 items)

Box 195

Folder

C -- 1930-1934:


Includes: "Good Night, My Lady Love," "Night on the Water," and  "Why Did It Have to Be Me?"  (30 items)

D -- 1932:


Multiple editions of "Snuggled on Your Shoulder."   (6 items)

E -- 1935-1957:


Includes: "Dreamy Eyes," "Footloose and Fancy Free," and "Return to Me."   
(21 items)

F -- 1937-1948:


Multiple editions of  "Boo Hoo," "Powder Your Face with Sunshine," "A Sailboat in the Moonlight," and "Seems Like Old Times."    (25 items)    

G -- Motion Picture Production, 1934, "The Sweetest Music This Side of
        Heaven," MANY HAPPY RETURNS. (1 item) 

H -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1926-1957


Includes: "Confucius Say," "Honky Tonk Sweetheart," and "Kissable Baby."   
(68 items)

Subseries 4.151: Abe Lyman, 1916-1943

Box 196

Folder

A-B  General Songs, 1923-1928, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

A -- 1923-1928:


Includes: "After I Say I'm Sorry" and "Mandalay."   (21 items)

B -- 1926:


Multiple editions of "Mary Lou."  (5 items)

C -- Songs by Others, 1916-1941, with Lyman and/or his band pictured on the cover.


Includes: "The Girl of My Dreams," "A Little Bit Independent," and "The Peanut Vender (El Manisero)." (23 items)

D -- Musical Theater Production, 1927, "Did You Mean It?" 
        A NIGHT IN SPAIN. (1 item)

E -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1924-1943


Contains: "Did You Mean It?" "Just a Perfect Night for Love," "Romany Days," and "These Empty Arms of Mine."  Lyman has musical credit for the first and last songs only.  (4 items)

F -- Folios, 1933; n.d.


Contains: Abe Lyman's Waltz Melodies Folio (covers are missing), and 
Waltz Time with Abe Lyman (covers only).   (2 items)

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