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 4.33: Egbert Van Alstyne, 1896-1937

Box 88

    Folder

    A-N -- General Songs, 1903-1936, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

    A-E -- Collaboration with Harry Williams, 1903-1912

    A -- 1903-1908:

      Includes: "I Used to Be Afraid to Go Home in the Dark" and "The Tale of the Old Black Crow." (several items are incomplete.) (36 items)

    B -- 1905:

      Multiple editions of "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree." (25 items)

    C -- 1906-1907:

      Multiple editions of "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark," "'Neath the Old Cherry Tree, Sweet Marie," "There Was Never a Girl Like You," and "Won't You Come Over to My House." (30 items)

    D -- 1908-1911:

      Multiple editions of  "I Want Someone to Call Me Dearie," "It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight," "What's the Matter with Father," and "When I Was Twenty-one and You Were Sweet Sixteen" (one edition missing cover). (30 items)

Box 89

    Folder

    E -- 1909-1912:

      Includes: "I Like It Better Every Day," "I Want Somebody to Play With," and "That Slippery Slide Trombone." (30 items)

    F-G -- Collaboration with Gus Kahn, 1910-1926

    F -- 1910-1926:

      Includes: "On the Road to Home Sweet Home," "Pretty Baby," and "Your Eyes Have Told Me So." (23 items)

    G -- 1913-1915: Multiple editions of "Memories" and "Sunshine and Roses." 
            (19 items)

    H-I -- Collaboration with Haven Gillespie, 1919-1931

    H -- 1919-1931:

      Includes: "Don't Be Cross with Me," "Hasta Manana," and "Tweet Tweet." 
      (23 items)

    I -- 1922:

      Multiple editions of "I'm Just a Little Blue for You." (8 items)

    J-M -- Collaboration with Others, 1911-1936; n.d.

    J -- 1911-1936; n.d.:

      Includes: "Dreams" and "You Can't Make a Fool out of Me." (33 items)

Box 90

    Folder

    K -- 1912:

      Multiple editions of "That Old Girl of Mine." (29 items)

    L -- 1913-1914:

      Multiple editions of "Oh! You Lovable Chile" and "When I Was a Dreamer."
      (22 items)

    M -- American Indian Songs, 1903-1915

      Includes: "Golden Arrow," "Navajo," and "Seminole." See Folder Q for instrumental versions of the latter two. (13 items)

    N -- African American Songs, 1905-1921

      Contains: "Honey, Dat's All" (one edition missing inner page) "I'm Going Right Back to Chicago," "My Choc'late Soldier Sammy Boy," and "Nicodemus." 
      (5 items)

    O --Irish American Songs, 1906-1913

     
    Contains: "My Irish Girl" and "You're the Sweetest Rose That Grows in Old Killarney."
    (2 items)

    P -- Armed Conflict Songs, 1914-1918


    Contains: "On the Road to Home Sweet home," "On the Road to Mexico," and "So long Mother." (10 items)

    Q-R -- Instrumental Compositions and Arrangements, 1896-1915

    Q -- 1896-1905:

      Includes: "Buttercups and Daisies," "Navajo," and "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree." (17 items)

    R -- 1906-1915:

      Includes: "Beautiful Lady," "Evening," and "Shoulder Straps." (22 items)

Box 91

    Folder

    S -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1903-1923

      "Baby," 1919, THE PASSING SHOW OF 1918
      "I Was a Hero Too," 1908, A BROKEN IDOL
      "Injun Love," 1911, OVER THE RIVER
      "A Little China Doll," 1908, A BROKEN IDOL
      "Navajo," 1903, NANCY BROWN
      "Nearer and Dearer," 1923, THE PASSING SHOW OF 1923
      "Pretty Baby," 1916, THE PASSING SHOW OF 1916
      "Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay," 1917, OH SO HAPPY
      "The Sign of a Honeymoon," 1908, THE BROKEN IDOL
      "That Pierrot Dance," 1911, FOLLIES BERGERE
      "You're All Right, Eddie," 1904, PECK AND HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW
      "You'll Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry," 1908, 
         HAMLET ON BROADWAY
      (17 items)

    T -- Motion Picture Song, 1923 "The Girl of the Olden West," 
            THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST. (1 item)

    U -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1905-1937

      Includes: "Don't Lay Me on My Back," "Enchanted Moon," "Golden Sands and Silvery Sea," and "The Old Family Bible." (15 items)

Subseries 4.203: Nat Vincent, 1911-1954

Box 238

    Folder

    A-D -- General Songs, 1911-1935, not related to stage, screen, or other 
                topical categories.  
           
                Vincent also wrote under the alias Jaan Kenbrovin.

    A -- 1911-1918:

    Includes: "Give a Little Credit to Your Dad," "The Light That Shines Forever," and "Oh! Harry! Harry!"  (15 items)

    B -- 1918-1919; 1950:

     
    Multiple editions of "I Know What It means to Be Lonesome" and "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles."  (18 items)

    C -- 1919-1935:

     
    Includes: "Dreamy Amazon," "My Dear Old Arizona Home," and "Nobody Knows But My Pillow and Me."  (31 items)

    D -- 1920-1930:

     
    Multiple editions of "La Veeda," "Pucker Up and Whistle," and "Mellow Mountain Man."  (18 items)

    E -- African American Songs, 1915-1930

     
    Includes: "I Know a Band That Needs No Leader" and "Pretty Quadroon."   
    (10 items)

    F -- Ethnic Songs, Miscellaneous, 1916-1922

     
    Contains Hawaiian, Irish, Swedish, and exotic subjects.  (6 items)

    G -- Armed Conflict Songs, 1918

     
    Includes: "Down the Trail of the Old Dirt Road" and "Hike! Hike! Hike!"   
    (4 items)

    H -- Ragtime, 1911-1916

     
    Contains: "Dancing the Jelly Roll," "The Parisienne Walk," and "That Railroad Rag." (6 items)

    I-J -- Musical Theater Productions, 1916-1920

    I -- A TRIP TO HITLAND, 1920

     
    Includes "Laughing Vamp" and "Think of Me."  (7 items)

    J -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1916-1919

     
    "At the Jazz Town Novelty Ball," 1918, THE PASSING SHOW OF 1918
    "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," 1919, THE PASSING SHOW OF 1918
    "Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!" 1916, SHOW OF WONDERS
    "The Older They Get, the Harder They Fall," 1918, LADIES FIRST
    "Please Don't Lean on the Bell," 1917, ZIEGFELD MIDNIGHT FROLIC
    (21 items)

    K -- Songs by Others, 1914-1935, with Nat Vincent's photo on the covers.

     
    Contains: "California and You" by Edgar Leslie and Harry Puck, and "I'd Like to Be in Texas for the Round Up in the Spring" arranged by Nick Manoloff.  
    (4 items)

    L -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1915-1954

     
    Includes: "It's Time to Say Aloha," "Me and My Burro," "Mellow Mountain Moon," "When the Bloom Is on the Sage," and  "Wonder Valley."   (30 items)

Box 239

    Folder

    M -- Folios, n.d.

     
    Contains: Happy Chappies.  (2 items)

Subseries 4.34: Albert Von Tilzer, 1900-1947

Box 91

    Folder

    A-N -- General Songs, 1902-1936, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

    A-B -- Collaboration with Arthur J. Lamb, 1902-1908; 1923; 1929

    A -- 1902-1908:

      Includes:  "A Little Lunch for Two" and "Tell Me with Your Eyes." (15 items)

    B -- 1905:

      Multiple editions of  "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" and "A Picnic for Two." (11 items)

    C-D -- Collaboration with Jack Norworth, 1906-1908; 1936

    C -- 1906-1908; 1936:

      Includes: "Good Evening Caroline," "I'm Glad I'm Married," and "Bessie and Her Little Brown Bear." (11 items)

    D -- 1907-1908:

      Multiple editions of "Honey Boy" and "Smarty." (17 items)

    E -- Collaboration with Junie McCree, 1908-1910

      Includes: "How Do You Do Miss Josephine," "Oh! That Moonlight Glide," and "When the Bells Are Ringing, Mary." (25 items)

    F-H -- Collaboration with Lew Brown, 1911-1921

    F -- 1911-1918:

      Includes: "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl and Leave the Rest to Me," "He's Just Like You," and "Parisienne." (27 items)

    G -- 1912-1920:

      Multiple editions of "I Used to Love You But It's All Over Now" and "Please Don't Take My Lovin' Man Away." (10 items)

Box 92

    Folder

    H -- 1919-1921:

      Includes: "I Told You So," "I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town," and "That's My Personality." (18 items)

    I-M -- Collaboration with others, 1903-1936

    I -- 1903-1905; 1932:

      Contains: multiple editions of "The Moon Has His Eyes on You" (one edition from musical production of IN NEW YORK TOWN), "Teasing," and "That's What the Daisy Said."
      (20 items)

    J -- 1904-1914:

      Includes: "Forever Is a Long Long Time," "That College Rag," and "Have You Seen My Henry Brown?" (21 items)

    K -- 1911-1920:

      Multiple editions of "Good Night Moon" and "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time."
      (12 items)

    L -- 1915-1917:

      Includes: "My Little Girl," "Put on Your Slippers and Fill Your Pipe (You're Not Going Bye Bye Tonight)," and "When the Sun Goes Down in Dixie." (21 items)

    M -- 1918-1936:

      Includes: "The Landlord Blues," "My Cutey's Due at Two to Two Today," "Say It with Flowers." (21 items)

    N -- African American Songs, 1911-1924

      Contains: "Dixie's Favorite Son," "Rap, Rap, Rap on Your Minstrel Bones," and "Where You Goin'?" (4 items)

Box 93

    Folder

    O -- Hawaiian Songs, 1916-1920

      Contains: "Chili Bean," "Oh, How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo," and "The Honolulu Hicki-Boola-Boo." (18 items)

    P -- Armed Conflict and Patriotic Songs, 1908-1918

      Includes: "I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time" and "Au Revoir, 
      But Not Goodbye." (17 items)

    Q -- Drinking Songs, 1902-1928:

      Includes: "I Never Knew I Had a Wonderful Wife until the Town Went Dry." 
      (5 items)

    R -- Instrumental Compositions, 1900-1916

      Contains: "The Absent-Minded Beggar Waltzes" and "Waters of Venice." The latter also with lyrics, in Folder M. (3 items)

    S-U -- Musical Theater Productions, 1904-1927

    S -- 1910:

    Multiple editions of "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey," MADAME SHERRY. (10 items)

    T -- 1910-1923:

      Includes: songs from ADRIENNE, THE GINGHAM GIRL, HONEY GIRL, and THE HAPPIEST NIGHT OF HIS LIFE. (19 items)

    U -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1904-1927:

      "Dapper Dan," 1921, MIDNIGHT ROUNDERS
      "I Looked at You," 1925, SOME DAY
      "I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time," 1917, HITCHY KOO
      "I'm Sorry," 1906, ABOUT TOWN
      "Lonesome," 1904, THE SCHOOL GIRL
      "Meet Me Tonight at Nine," 1910, JUMPING JUPITER
      "The Moon Has His Eyes on You," 1905, IN NEW YORK TOWN
      "Oh By Jingo!," 1919, LINGER LONGER LETTY
      "Polite," 1905, IN NEW YORK TOWN
      "September Night," 1927, BYE BYE BONNIE
      "Sweet Kisses," 1919, ZIEGFELD FOLLIES
      "Virginia Town," 1925, SOME DAY
      "Would You Like to Change from Miss to Mrs?" 1905, 
          THE EARL AND THE GIRL
      "Would You Like to Learn to Like Me," 1909, FOLLIES OF THE DAY
      "You and I Love You and Me," 1917, BYE BYE BONNIE
      "You will Have to Sing an Irish Song," 1908, FOLLIES OF 1908
      (26 items)

    V -- Motion Picture Productions, Miscellaneous, 1919-1935

      "Dear Old Daddy Long Legs," 1919, DEAR OLD DADDY LONG LEGS
      "I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town," 1912, MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM
      "Let's Go Places and Do Things," 1934, RAINBOW OVER BROADWAY
      "Roll Along Prairie Moon," 1935, HERE COMES THE BAND
      (5 items)

    W -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1904-1947

      Includes:  "Down Where the Swanee River Flows," "Give Me the Moonlight," "Give Me the Girl (and Leave the Rest to Me)," and "Watermelon Am Good Enough for Mine." (46 items)

    X -- Folios, 1929; n.d.

      Contains: Famous Songs of the Past, and Dance Folio of Popular Hits.
      (3 items)


Subseries 4.35: Harry Von Tilzer, 1897-1954

Box 94

    Folder

    A-U -- General Songs, 1897-1954, not related to stage, screen, or other topical categories.

    A -- 1897-1926, words and music written exclusively by Von Tilzer:

      Includes: "Keep a Little Sunshine in Your Heart" and "Somebody Knows." 
      (8 items)

    B-K -- Collaboration with Andrew B. Sterling, 1897-1922

    B -- 1897-1903; 1926:

      Includes: "They Never Mention Your Name," "I'll Be There, Mary Dear," and "When Kate and I Were Coming Through the Rye." (20 items)

Box OS/1

    Folder

    C -- 1898:

     
    "My Old New Hampshire Home," Comfort, February, n.d. (1 item)

Box 94

    Folder

    D -- 1901-1905; 1941; 1952:

      Multiple editions of "Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow" (one song sheet missing cover), "Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie," "Where the Morning Glories Twine around the Door" (one edition missing inner page), and "Where the Sweet Magnolias Bloom." (29 items)

    E -- 1904-1905:

      Includes: "Coax Me," "Just across the Bridge of Gold," and "When the Frost Is on the Pumpkin." (26 items)

    F -- 1906-1907:

      Multiple editions of "Ida-Ho," "In the Evening by the Moonlight, Dear Louise," "Mariutch ... Down at Coney Isle," and "When the Flowers Bloom in Springtime." (24 items)

Box 95

    Folder

    G -- 1906-1910:

      Includes: "Bye Bye Dearie," "I Want Someone to Flirt with Me," "Take Me Back to New York Town," and "Under the Yum Yum Tree." (27 items)

    H -- 1911-1915:

      Includes: "Have a Heart," "The Ragtime Goblin Man," and "You'll Always Be the Same Sweet Girl." Also the last page of "Do You Take This Woman for Your Lawful Wife." (30 items)

    I -- 1912:

      Multiple editions of "Last Night Was the End of the World" and "Somebody Else Is Getting It." (15 items)

    J -- 1913-1918:

      Multiple editions of "Can You Tame Wild Wimmen," "I Never Heard of Anyone Dying from a Kiss" and "On the Old Fall River Line." (16 items)

    K -- 1916-1922:

      Includes: "Ain't You Coming Out Malinda?" "Dreams," and "You're a Good Old Car but You Can't Climb Hills." (33 items)

Box 96

    Folder

    L-M -- Collaboration with Arthur J. Lamb, 1900-1907; 1938-1940

    L -- 1900-1907:

      Includes: "The Banquet in Misery Hall," "A Bird in a Gilded Cage," and "The Spider and the Fly." (17 items)

    M -- 1902; 1938-1940:

      Multiple editions of "The Mansion of Aching Hearts." (11 items)

    N-O -- Collaboration with Vincent Bryan, 1902-1918:

    N -- 1902-1918:

      Includes: "Cows May Come and Cows May Go But the Bull Goes on Forever," "In the Sweet Bye and Bye," and "Taffy." (23 items)

    O -- 1902-1918:

      Multiple editions of "Don't Take Me Home" and "I Want a Doll." (11 items)

    P-U -- Collaboration with others, 1899-1954

    P -- 1899-1909:

      Includes: "I'm Getting Awful Lazy," "Just One Sweet Girl," and "Summertime." (26 items)

    Q -- 1902-1909:

      Multiple editions of "Down on the Farm" and "I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife, But Oh! You Kid!" (includes the Armstrong/Clark song of similar title). (16 items)

    R -- 1910-1915:

      Includes: "The Green Grass Grew All Around," "I Love It," "I'd Do As Much for You," and "On My Chicken Farm." (33 items)

Box 97

    Folder

    S -- 1913-1925:

      Multiple editions of "Just Around the Corner," "Love Me While the Loving Is Good," and "There's Someone More Lonesome Than You." (17 items)

    T -- 1916-1917:

      Includes: "Just the Kind of a Girl," "Listen to the Knocking at the Knitting Club," and "With His Hands in His Pockets and His Pockets in His Pants." (31 items)

    U -- 1918-1954:

      Includes: "Chase Me Charlie" and "She Fell Down on Her Cadenza." (22 items)

    V-Y -- African American Songs, 1897-1922

    V -- Collaboration with Andrew B. Sterling, 1897-1922:

      Includes: "Abraham," "Just Help Yourself," and "Moving Day." (31 items)

    W -- 1903-1905:

      Multiple editions of "Alexander, Don't You Love Your Baby No More?," "Good Bye Eliza Jane," and "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown (What You Gona Do When the Rent Comes Round?)." (15 items)

Box 98

    Folder

    X -- Collaboration with others, 1897-1916:

      Includes: "I Ain't A'Goin' to Weep No More," "I'd Leave Ma Happy Home for You," and "Wouldn't It Make You Hungry?" (17 items)

    Y -- 1909:

      Multiple editions of "The Cubanola Glide." (6 items)

    Z -- Irish Songs, 1906-1921

      Includes: "Are You Coming out Tonight, Mary Ann," "A Little Bunch of Shamrocks," and "That Old Irish Mother of Mine." (23 items)

    AA -- Hawaiian and Exotic Isle Songs, 1916-1922

      Includes: "On the Hoko Moko Isle," "On the South Sea Isle," and "Since Mary Ann McCue Came Back from Honolulu." (14 items)

    BB -- Armed Conflict Songs, 1900-1918

      Includes: "I'll Be There, Mary Dear," "The Little Good for Nothing's Good for Something After All," and "The Sentinel Asleep." (33 items)

    CC-DD -- Drinking Songs, 1902-1926

    CC -- 1902-1926:

      Includes: "If I Meet the Guy Who Made This Country Dry," "Schooners That Pass in the Night," and "Whoa! January." (12 items)

    DD -- 1903-1905:

      Multiple editions of "On the Banks of the Rhine" and "Under the Anheuser Bush." (14 items)

Box 99

    Folder

    EE -- Children's Songs, 1904-1913

      Includes: "All Aboard for Blanket Bay," "Down at the Baby Store," and "What's the Use of Being Good." (9 items)

    FF -- Instrumental Compositions, 1909-1917

      Contains: "The Cubanola Glide," "Love's Memories," and "Stolen Sweets." 
      (3 items)

    GG-HH -- Musical Theater Productions, 1902-1921

    GG -- THE GIRLS OF GOTTENBERG, 1908, multiple editions of 
              "I Remember You." (7 items)


    THE KISSING GIRL, 1909, Contains: "Love Is Like a Rose," "Love's Golden Dream," "On the B, on the Bou, on the Boulevard," "Good Old German Beer," and "Swinging on the Old Grape Vine." (6 items)

    HH -- Musical Theater Productions, Miscellaneous, 1902-1921:

      "Baby Love," 1914, ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1914
      "Do You Take This Woman for Your Lawful Wife," 1913, 
          THE PASSING SHOW OF 1913
      "Good-Bye Boys," 1913, THE HONEYMOON EXPRESS
      "If They Ever Take the Sun out of Sunday," 1921, 
           CENTURY MIDNIGHT WHIRL
      "I'm a Little Bit Afraid of You, Broadway," 1913, 
           THE PASSING SHOW OF 1913
      "It Must Have Been Svengali in Disguise," 1902, THE WILD ROSE
      "Keep Your Foot on the Soft Pedal," 1909, THE GOLDEN WIDOW
      "Kalamazoo Is No Place for You," 1904, THE JOLLY BARON
      "Tell It to Sweeny," 1910, THE YANKEE GIRL
      "Waiting for Me," 1912, THE TWO LITTLE BRIDES
      "Way Down to Mexico," 1911, OVER THE RIVER
      "When Patricia Salome Did Her Little Oo-la-pa-lome," 1907, FOLLIES OF 1907
      "When Sunday Comes to Town," 1915, DANCING AROUND
      "When the Troupe Comes Back to Town," 1902, SALLY IN OUR ALLEY
      (24 items)

    II -- Motion Picture Productions, Miscellaneous, 1900-1905; 1927-1952

      "A Bird in a Gilded Cage," 1900; 1927, RINGSIDE MAISIE
      "Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie," 1905; 1932-1951, WAIT TILL 
      THE SUN SHINES NELLIE
      (5 items)

    JJ -- Professional/Artist Copies, 1900-1938

      Includes: "Come and Meet Me, Sadie," "Down at the Baby Store," "A Little Yellow Rose from Dixie-Land," and "That's Where I Meet My Girl." (37 items)

    KK -- Folios, 1902-1922; n.d.

      Contains: two dance folios (one undated and also representing other composers) and Harry Von Tilzer's Old Time Favorite Hits. (4 items)

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