This sheet music for the song “If the World Were Full of Durantes” was written by Eddie Cantor and Charlie Tobias. The sheet music was published by Tobias and Lewis of New York, New York in 1951. The cover features a dark red and white collage of photos of Jimmy Durante. Durante was an early American multi-media star, performing in vaudeville, radio, stage, television, and movies from the 1920s-1960s.
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