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Title

American popular songs, 1895-1973 [microform] : reel 38.

Publication

[Various places] : [various publishers], ©1931.

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Details

Description

1 microfilm reel.

Subject

• Popular music > United States > 1931-1940

Note

• Popular songs chiefly for voice and piano.
• Titles in order of apperance on microfilm.

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Contents

• P.S. 1931 series 1 (L-Z): Lazy day / American lyrics by Gus Kahn, American melody by Grace Leboy Kahn, English lyrics by Karl Martin, English melody by George Posford -- Let a little pleasure interfere with business / words & music by Little Jack Little -- Let me hum a hymn to her tonight / words by Joe Young, music by Little Jack Little -- Lies / lyric by George E. Springer, melody by Harry Barris -- A little less of moonlight (a little more of you) / words by Irving Kahal, music by J. Russel Robinson -- The little old church in the valley / by Gus Kahn, Gene Arnold and Egbert Van Alstyne -- Little sweetheart of the mountains / words & music by Herb Pinkert, Billy Barry and Lou Handman [lead sheet] -- Little sweetheart of the prairie / by Alfred Solman and George Brown -- A lonely gondolier / words by Walter Hirsch, music by Frank Magine -- Lonesome Rose / by Jack Rich, Al Vann & Myron Goldwyn -- Love goes on just the same / words and music by Irving Kahal and Abel Baer -- Live is like that (what can you do?) / words and music by Benée Russell -- Love is my master / lyric by Walter Hirsch, music by Frank Magine -- Love letters in the sand / words by Nick Kenny and Charles Kenny, music by J. Fred Coots -- Love songs / lyric by Edgar Leslie, music by Geo. W. Meyer -- The love waltz / words by Eugene West, music by Albert Gumble -- Lover, where are you? / words by Edgar Leslie, music by Mabel Wayne -- Make yourself at home / words by Sidney Clare and Charles Tobias, music by Al Sherman -- Makin’ faces at the man in the moon / by Max Rich, Kate Smith, Al Hoffman & Ned Washington -- Mama don’t want no peas an’d rice an’ cocoanut oil / by L. Wolfe Gilbert & L. Charles, arr. by J. Rosamond Johnson -- Marta (rambling rose of the wildwood) / English lyric by L. Wolfe Gilbert, [music] by Moises Simons, arranged by Rosamond Johnson -- Mine yesterday-his today / words by Al Lewis, music by Lee David -- A moonlight memory / lyrics by Gus Kahn, music by Egbert Van Alstyne -- Mother Indiana / words by Al Bryan, music by Jean Schwartz -- My blue days blew over (when you came back to me) / lyrics by Tot Seymour, music by Max Rich -- My cradle sweetheart / lyric by Charles Newman, music by Isham Jones -- My kisses are your kisses (if your kisses are mine) / lyric by Jack Meskill, music by Jean Schwartz -- My sweet tooth says I wanna (but my wisdom tooth says no) / lyric by Joe Young and Sidney Clare, music by Sam H. Stept -- My sweet Virginia / words by Ray Klages and Jack Meskill, music by Vincent Rose -- Nevada moon / words and music by Lon Healy -- Never / by Paul Denniker -- Nevertheless (I’m in love with you) / by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby [2 copies] -- Oh tell, oh tell me honey / by Irving Caesar, Billy Frisch and Otto Motzan -- Oh! what a thrill (to hear it from you) / words by Jack Murray and Barry Trivers, music by Al Hoffman -- An old fashioned home in New Hampshire / lyric by Sam M. Lewis, music by Robert A. King -- Old playmate / words by Gus Kahn, music by Matt Malneck -- On a certain Sunday / words and music by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel -- One more time / by B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson -- Only a song / words by Ned Wever, music by Leo Erdody -- Only a voice on the air / by Al Dubin -- Ooh! Hoo! You-hoo! (Don’t cha know the moon is new-hoo) / words and music by Harry Woods -- Pals of the little red school / words and music by Ernie Erdman and Cal De Voll -- Parisian lover / words by Sam Coslow, music by Arthur Johnston -- Poor little gigolette / words and music by Jos. Ettlinger & George Brown -- Poor marionette / lyric by Gus Kahn, music by Ted Fiorito -- Prove that you’re sorry / by Herb Gordon, Moe Jaffe, Clay Boland, Frank Winegar -- Puppets / words by Winston Sharples, music by Nat Brusiloff & Marty Quinto -- The queen was in the parlor / words by Erell Reaves, music by Sherman Myers -- Right across the way / words by Roy Turk, music by Fred E. Ahlert -- River, stay ‘way from my door / words by Mort Dixon, music by Harry Woods -- Rock me in a cradle of Kalua / words by Al Bryan, music by Pete Wendling -- Rocky Mountain lullaby / words by Marvin Lee, music by Robert A. King -- Roll on, Mississippi, roll on / by Eugene West, James McCaffrey and Dave Ringle -- Running between the rain-drops / lyric by James Dyrenforth, music by Carroll Gibbons -- Sailin’ on the Robert E. Lee / by Eugene West, James McCaffrey and Dave Ringle -- Save the last dance for me / lyric by Walter Hirsch, music by Frank Magine & Phil. Spitalny -- She’s a typical tip from Tipperary / words by Adam O’Neill, music by Jay Mack -- She’s the sister of Annabelle Lee / by Sidney Clare and Lew Pollack -- Since an angel like Mary loves a devil like me / lyric by Edgar Leslie & Joe Young, music by George W. Meyer -- Sing me an old fashioned hymn / words by Charles Newman, music by Harry Kogen -- Sleepy Hollow home / words by Jack Meskill and Ray Klages, music by Vincent Rose -- Smile, darn ya, smile / lyric by Chas. O’Flynn & Jack Meskill, music by Max Rich -- Sometime in summertime / by Walter Donaldson [lead sheet] -- Song of pep / lyric by Josef Zimanich and Robey Cowan, music by Phil Boutelje -- Starlight (help me find the one I love) / lyric by Joe Young, music by Bernice Petkere -- Sweet and lovely / words and music by Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias and Jules Lemare -- Take it from me (I’m takin’ to you) / lyric by R. Stanley Adams, music by Thomas Waller -- That’s my desire / words by Carroll Loveday, music by Helmy Kresa -- That’s the time a fellow needs a girl friend / lyric by Joe Young and Sidney Clare, music by Sam H. Stept -- There’s a blue note in my love song / words and music by Ted Shapiro & Maurice Beresford -- There’s a new moon shining / words by Gus Kahn and Raymond B. Egan, music by Richard A. Whiting -- There’s a time and place for everything / words by Roy Turk, music by Fred E. Ahlert -- There’s no depression in love / words by Jack Yellen, music by Dan Dougherty -- There’s no other girl (after loving you) / words by Benny Davis, music by J. Russel Robinson -- This is my love song / lyric by Al Dubin, music by Joe Burke -- There must be a bright tomorrow (for each yesterday of tears) / by Number 3223 (Wallace Wysocki, Marquette Prison, Marquette Mich. -- (There ought to be a) Moonlight saving time / words & music by Irving Kahal and Harry Richman -- To be worthy of you / words by Benny Davis, music by J. Fred Coots -- To have and to hold you in my arms / lyric by Al Dubin, music by Joe Burke -- To whisper, dear, I love you / lyric by Mort Harris, music by Ted Snyder -- Today, tomorrow, forever / by Milton Ager -- Tom-boy / lyric by Joe Young, music by Carmen Lombardo and Larry Owen -- Treat me like a baby / lyric by Andy Razaf, music by Jack Palmer -- The tune that never grows old / words and music by Lee Morse -- Two loves = (J’ai deux amours) / words by Geo Koger & H. Varna, American version by J.P. Murray and Barry Trivers, music by Vincent Scotto -- Up and down the hill / by Charlie Tobias, Murray Mencher and Teddy William -- Waitin’ for a call from you / words and music by Seymour Simons -- Waltzin’ ‘round with Rosie / lyric by Tot Seymour, music by Mabel Wayne -- We can live on love / lyric by Smith Ballew & Edward Pola, music by Jack Golden -- Were you sincere? / lyric by Jack Meskill, music by Vincent Rose -- What am I gonna do for lovin’? / lyric by Herb Magidson, music by Felix Bernard and Al Hoffman -- What is it? / lyric by Harry Tobias, music by Harry Barris -- What more can I do? / words by Cal De Voll, music by Gene Carroll and Glenn Rowell -- When it’s sleepy time down south / words and music by Leon René & Otis René & Clarence Muse -- When you’re alone try to remember me / [by] FOrd Rush, Gene and Glenn, Fred Rose -- When the night is young / lyric by Tot Seymour, music by Jesse Greer -- When the shepherd leads the sheep back home / words by Edgar Leslie, music by Harry Warren -- When the stars come peeping through / by Jack Miller -- When we’re alone (Penthouse serenade) / by Will Jason and Val Burton -- When we waltzed in the dark / lyric by Joe Young and Al Bryan, music by George W. Meyer -- Where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day / words and music by Roy Turk, Bing Crosby and Fred E. Ahlert -- Who loves you? I do! (Who loves me? You do!) / lyric by Benée Russell, music by Carmen Lombardo -- Why dance? / words by Roy Turk, music by Fred E. Ahlert -- (When we made love in Spain_) With the help of the moon / lyrics by Charles Tobias and Arthur Terker, music by Vincent Rose -- Wonder Valley / by Fred Howard & Nat Vincent -- Would you take me back again? / by Peter De Rose and Alfred Solman -- Yes or no / words by Charles O’Flynn, music by Max Rich -- Yes, yes! / by Con Conrad and Cliff Friend -- You’re my only sweetheart / lyric by Cal De Voll, music by Harold Dellon -- You can bet your life it’s love / words by Charles Tobias, music by J. Fred Coots -- You can’t do that to me / words and music by Al Goodhart, Ed G. Nelson and Steve Nelson -- You didn’t have to tell me (I know it all the time) / by Walter Donaldson -- You don’t know what you’re doin’ / lyric by Benee Russel and Joe Young, music by Geo. W. Meyer -- You made me cry / words by Ben Ryan, music by Lou Handman.
• All I care about is you! / by Little Jack Little [short score, mutilated] -- All of me / by Seymour Simons & Gerald Marks -- Alone with memory / words by Chan Harbour, music by Evan Georgeoff, arranged by H.A. Hummel -- As time goes by / words and music by Herman Hupfeld -- Because I worship you / words and music by Arthur Freed -- Begging for love / by Irving Berlin -- Beneath the moon on the Nile / lyric by George A. Sakele, music by Lew Selzer -- Blue eyes / lyric and music by Dave Ringle -- Blue Kentucky moon / by Walter Donaldson [short score] -- Blues in my heart / words and music by King Carter and Irving Mills -- Blueville blues / words and music by Theo A. Metz -- Building a home for you / lyric by Gus Kahn, music by Joseph H. Santly & Joe Bennett [partially mutilated] -- By my side / lyric by Bert Lown & Dorothy Dick, music by Harry Link & Chauncey Gray -- Carolina’s calling me / by Bob Charles -- Chances are / by Harry Barris, Ralph Freed and Gus Arnheim -- Chimes of spring (Spring beautiful spring) / words by L. Wolfe Gilbert, music by Paul Lincke -- Close your eyes / words by Desmond Carter, music by H.M. Tennant -- The cutest kid in town / words by Herb Magidson, music by Felix Bernard and Al Hoffman -- Dance hall doll / words by Jack Yellen, music by Dan Dougherty -- Do you recall / words and music by Caroline Lento -- Empty arms / by Jos. E. Howard -- An ev’ning in Caroline / by Walter Donaldson -- Ever since we parted / words and music by Harold F. Elsner, revised by Theo. A. Metz -- Fifty years from now / by “Mac” (Harry McClintock and Sterling Sherwin [partially mutilated] -- Forgetting a love-affair / words by Irving Kahal, music by Pierre Norman -- Freddy the freshman (The freshest kid in town) / words and music by Cliff Friend & Dave Oppenheim -- Gipsy eyes / words by P.A., music by Gregory Stone and Harry Horlick -- Good-night moon / by Walter Donaldson -- Guilty / words & music by Gus Kahn, Harry Akst and Richard A. Whiting -- Happy little tune / words by Tot Seymour, music by Max Rich -- Havanita (What might have been) / Spanish words by Anita Henriquez, [American words by] Robert A. Simon, [music by] Quinto Maganini -- Hosanna / words by Leo Robin, music by Richard Myers -- How can I pretend (I’m not caring) / words by Al Piantadosi, music by Harold Solomon -- I’m gettin’ superstitious about delicious you / by Little Jack Little and Harold Spina -- I’m mad about you / words and music by Abner Silver -- I’m only guessin’ / lyric by Raymond B. Egan, music by Nacio Herb Brown -- I’m sorry dear / words and music by Anson Weeks, Harry Tobias, Johnnie Scott -- I’m spending too much time by myself / by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal and Pierre Norman -- I’m walkin’ on air / words by Sam Lewis, music by …. [partially mutilated] -- I’m with you! / by Walter Donaldson [short score; partially mutilated -- I can’t get away from you / by George Boone and Larry Long -- I could expect it from anyone but you / by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart & Ed Nelson, arr. by Paul Weirick [1st violin part; sparse arrangement] -- I don’t know why (I just do) / lyric by Roy Turk, music by Fred E. Ahlert -- I have a sweetheart (and mother is her name) / words by Peter Demery & Fred Hilker, music by Jacob Conrad -- I’ve just been reno-vated / words by [illegible], music by Harold Potter -- I thank you Mr. Moon / by Dave Oppenheim, Dolly Morse and Abel Baer -- I want you for myself / by Irving Berlin -- I’ll always remember September / by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart and Ed Nelson -- I’ll never more be free / words and music by Helen Gahagan (arr. from an old folk-song) -- I won’t give up (till you give in) / words by Leo Robin, music by Richard A. Whiting -- If I didn’t have you / by E.Y. Harburg & Milton Ager -- If I have to go on without you / words and music by Harry Woods and Al Dubin [partially mutilated] -- If you were the sinner and I were the saint / words by Al Lewis, music by Lee David [short score] -- Kiss me goodnight / words by Archie Gottler, music by Horatio Nicholls -- Lazy river / by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin -- Lazy silv’ry moon / words and music by Geo. B. McConnell, Billy Hays and Morty Berk -- Let’s drift away on Dreamers Bay / words and music by Harold Spina and George McConnell -- Let’s get friendly / words by Jack Yellen & Sid Silvers, music by Dan Dougherty -- Life is a dream / lyric by Arthur Freed, music by Oscar Straus -- Little Joe / words by Ned Miller, music by Jules Kay Stein [short score -- Little secrets / words and music by Ed. G. Nelson, Al. Goodhart and Steve Nelson [lacking the first page] -- Lucille! / by Walter Donaldson [short score].
• Many happy returns of the day / lyric by Al Dubin, music by Joe Burke -- Maybe it’s the moon / by Richard A. Whiting -- Mississippi lament / lyric by Walter Preston, music by William Wirges -- Mistaken in you / lyric by Tot Seymour, music by Ozzie Nelson -- My canary has circles under his eyes / lyric by Ted Kohler and Edward Pola, music by Jack Golden -- The night you gave me back the rain / lyric by Ben Gordon and Allen Taub, music by Lou Herscher -- 99 out of a hundred wanna be loved / lyric by Al Lewis, music by Al Sherman -- Nothin’ to do but love / by Buddy Fields and Gerald Marks -- Now that I have you / words by Charles Harrison and Roy Cato, music by Monte Wilhite -- Now that you’re gone / lyric by Gus Kahn, music by Ted Fiorito -- On the beach with you / words by Tot Seymour, music by Jesse Greer -- One kiss, one smile, one tear / lyric by Walter Rafael, music by John McLaughlin -- One little quarrel / words & music by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart and Ed Nelson -- One more kiss then good-night / by Charlie Tobias, Peter De Rose, Lou Herscher, Art Coogan, chorus melody adapted from Lou Herscher & Art Coogan’s composition “After all” -- One of us was wrong / words by Gus Kahn, music by Al Goering -- One sunny afternoon / words by Malcolm McComb, music by Dana Suesse -- Out of nowhere / lyric by Edward Heyman, music by John W. Green -- Pagan moon / words and music by Al Dubin, Al Bryan and Joe Burke -- Pell Street bells / new lyric by Will Gould, music by Fred Fisher -- Picking pretty peaches out in Persia / written and composed by Maurice Scott -- Pucker up (Make out you’re gonna whistle) IThan gimme a kiss) / words by Charles Kenny, music by Frank Perkins -- Put that sun back in the sky / words by Irving Kahal, music by Joseph Meyer -- Redheaded baby / words by Benny Davis, music by J. Fred Coots -- Rhymes / words and music by Leslie Sarony -- The rhyming song (You’ll find a rhyme for everything but orange) / words by Sammy Lerner, music by Sammy Timberg -- Rhythm bound / by Jo’ Trent -- Salem town / lyric by Al Bryan, music by John Turner and Joe Singer -- Save the last dance for me / lyric by Walter Hirsch, music by Frank Magine & Phil Spitalny -- Sing another chorus please / [by] Bill Grantham and Earl Burtnett -- Sittin’ in the movies (Holdin’ your hand) / by Dave Dreyer, Vee Lawnhurst & Jack Scholl [short score] -- Sometime in summertime / by Walter Donaldson [short score] -- (Waitin’ for that) Sometime soon / words and music by Vee Lawnhurst -- Such is life, such is love / words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Revel -- Sunny skies / words by Jack Meskill & Ray Klages, music by Vincent Rose -- Sunshine and shadows / lyric by Gene Buck, music by Dave Stamper -- That’s what I like about you / by Walter Donaldson [short score] -- There are no bad times for wifey (and my good times are here) / lyric by Joe Young, music by Little Jack Little -- There’s a ring around the moon / words by Sam M. Lewis, music by Al Goodhart and Ed G. Nelson [short score] -- There’s rhythm in the river / words by Paul Francis Webster, music by John Jacob Loeb -- This is my love song / lyric by Al Dubin, music by Joe Burke -- Thrill me / words and music by Morey Davidson and Sammy Watkins -- To whisper,. dear, I love you / lyric by Mort Harris, music by Ted Snyder -- Tom Thumb’s drum / by Leslie Sarony -- Tree top scandal / by Jo’ Trent -- Trying to forget (where the sweet “forget-me-nots” grow) / words by Benny Davis, music by J. Fred Coots -- Under your window tonight / words by Charles Tobias and Sidney Clare, music by Murray Mencher -- Wabash moon / by Dave Dreyer & Morton Downey -- Waitin’ for a call from you / words by music by Seymour Simons -- Walkin’ on air / words by Mack Gordon, music by Harry Revel -- What are you thinkin’ about, baby / by Ed G. Nelson, Al Goodhart and Steve Nelson [short score] -- When I look in the book of my memory / words by Sammy Lerner, music by Sammy Timberg -- When the nightingale sings in the moonlight / words and music by Howard Starr Dickey -- When the roses bloom again in Normandy / words by Al Bryan, music by Charles Rosoff -- When the silv’ry Swanee river flows / lyric by Herman Pincus, music by Billy Barry -- While we danced at the Mardi Gras / words by John Mercer, music by Alfred Opler -- Whistling in the dark / words by Allen Boretz, music by Dana Suesse -- Who am I? / words by Gordon Clifford, music by Alfred Newman -- Who’s gonna wash your laundry (when your Chinaman goes to war) / words by Al Lewis, music by Al Sherman and Lee David… [partially mutilated] -- Why can’t we be sweethearts (once again?) / words and music by Doris White and Norman Costello [partially mutilated] -- Why did it have to be me? (You knew you’d hurt somebody) / [by] Bud Green, Carmen Lombardo and Sam H. Stept -- Without that gal! / by Walter Donaldson -- Wrap your troubles in dreams (and dream your troubles away) / words by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll, music by Harry Barris -- You’re blasé : from Bow bells / words by Bruce Sievier, music by Ord Hamilton -- You’re famous / by Al Goodhart, Ed Nelson and Al Hoffman -- You’re the nearest thing I’ve found to heaven / words and music by Lou Zoeller and Tommy MacWilliams -- You’re still that old sweetheart of mine / poem by Ben Ryan, melody by Morton Downey -- You’re the surest cure for the blues / words by Sammy Lerner, music by Dana Suesse -- You call it madness but I call it love / by Con Conrad, Gladys Du Bois, Russ Columbo and Paul Gregory -- You could have been the one, baby / by B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson -- You don’t know what you’re doin’ / lyric by Benée Russel and Joe Young, music by Geo. W. Meyer -- You don’t need glasses (To see I’m in love) / by Dave Dreyer, Harry Richman, Little Jack Little & Steve Nelson [short score] -- You slay me / by Maceo Pinkard and Wm. Tracey -- You try somebody else / by B.G. De Sylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson -- You’ll be mine in apple blossom time / lyric by Charles Tobias, music by Peter De Rose [mutilated].

Call Number

*ZB-2491 reel 38

Title

American popular songs, 1895-1973 [microform] : reel 38.

Imprint

[Various places] : [various publishers], ©1931.

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library, 1991. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-31921)

Research Call Number

*ZB-2491 reel 38