Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 score (3 p.) : ill.; 36 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.

Series statement

1. Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923

Subject

1. Musicals > Excerpts > Vocal scores with piano
2. Music
3. Smith, Edgar, 1857-1938 > Roly poly
4. Musical revues & comedies > United States > 1911-1920

Call number

1. M.C. (Roly poly, 1912)

Note

1. For voice and piano.
2. Caption title.
3. First line of text: A brave heart is beating with a love so true.
4. First line of refrain: Ramona, my heart is thine.
5. "Great hit song in Roly-Poly"--Top of cover.
6. "Indian intermezzo (two-step)"--Printed below cover title.
7. "Ramona 'Lily of the Prairie'"--Printed below photograph by Lee Moorehouse, Pendleton, Ore. of woman dressed in a blanket and wearing a head band and feather in her hair.
8. Roly poly opened at Weber and Fields' Music Hall in New York City on November 21, 1912 (information from IBDB.com).

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available in electronic form, digitized by The New York Public Library.

Author

1. Johnson, Lee.

Title

1. Ramona : Alessandro's love song to Ramona / [words and music] by Lee Johnson.

Imprint

1. Los Angeles : Lee Johnson Music : copyright by John Donigan, c1903.

Series

1. Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923

Additional formats

1. Also available in electronic form, digitized by The New York Public Library.

Local note

1. Edges worn; some corners missing.

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1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Indexed term

1. Music

Research call number

1. M.C. (Roly poly, 1912)