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Sheet Music Artificial Collection, 1877-1938
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Descriptive Summary

Title: Sheet Music Artificial Collection
Span Dates: 1877-1938
ID No: Sc2023-001
Creator: Unknown
Extent: 2 oversized boxes
Language: English
Repository: West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV

Administrative Information

Provinance: This collection was accumulated over a period of time and includes purchases by the repository.
Preferred Citation: [item, collection number], West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV.
Processor: Bethany Arbaugh, March 2023
Conditions on Use and Access: None
Copyright: Copyright restrictions may apply.


Inventory List

Oversized Box 1

1:1 Foster, Stephen C. "My Old Kentucky Home." n.d.
Mason, Lowell. "Nearer, My God, To Thee." Words by Sarah Adams. n.d.
Keithley and Thompson, "Alice of Old Vincennes (I Love You)." 1914
Harris, Charles K., "All I Want Is A Cottage, Some Roses, and You." 1916
Van and Schenck, "All the Boy's Love Mary." Words by Andrew D. Sterling 1920

1:2 Whiting, Richard A., "They Made It Twice as Nice As Paradise And They Called It Dixieland." Lyrics by Raymond Egan. 1916
Grant, Bert. "Arrah Go on I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon." Words by Joe Young and Sam Lewis. 1916
Von Tilzer, Albert. "Au Revoir, But Not Good-Bye (Soldier Boy)." Words by Lew Brown. 1917
Little, Jack. "Because They All Love You." Words by Tommie Malie. 1924.

1:3 Friedman, Max. "Before I Grew Up to Love You." 1918
Dugdale, H. Kirkus. "Beside the Crystal Sea." Words by William P. Rasin. 1911
Madden, Edward and Edwards, Gus. "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." 1909
Moret, Neil. "I Got to Go Where You Are, Chloe (Song of the Swamp)." Lyrics by Gus Kahn. 1927
Mix, Ann. "Cowboy Songs." n.d.

1:4 Lincoln, Harry J. "Crossing the Bar." 1915
Fisher, Fred. "Daddy You've Been a Mother to Me."1920
Ager, Milton. "Don't Be Afraid to Come Home." Words by Jack Yellen and Alfred Bryan. 1925
Morgan, Jimmie. "Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You." Words by Thomas Hoier. 1915
Hanley, James F. "Dreaming of Home Sweet Home." Words by Ballard Macdonald. 1918

1:5 Casey, James W. "Ev'ry Time She Hears the Band Play (It Almost Breaks Her Dear Old Heart)." 1918
Abrams, Maurice. "Everybody Loves My Girl." Lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young. 1928
Kendis, Brockman, and Vincent. "Everybody's Happy Now." 1918
Greer, Jesse. "Freshie." Lyrics by Jesse Greer and Harold Berg. 1925
Johnson, Howard; Santly, Joseph H.; and Meyer, George W. "Friends." 1919

1:6 Earl, Mary. "From Valley Forge to France." 1918
Ball, Ernest R. "For Dixie and Uncle Sam." Words by J. Keirn Brennan. 1916
McConnell, J. Edwin and McConnell, Lincoln. "Good-Bye Germany." 1918
Fairman, George. "Hello America Hello." 1917
De Silva, B. G.; Brown, Lew; and Henderson, Ray. "Here Am I - Brokenhearted." 1927

1:7 Meyer, George. "Homeward Bound." Words by Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz. 1917
Pitman, George B. "I Found You Among the Roses."1916
Gottler, Archie. "I Hate to Lose You, I'm So Used to You Now." Words by Grant Clarke. 1918
Berlin, Irving. "I Left My Door Open and My Daddy Walked Out." 1919
Berlin, Irving. "I'll See You in Cuba." 1920

1:8 Little, Little Jack. "I'm Needin You." Lyric by Joe Young. 1930
Schwartz, Jean. "I'm Simply Crazy Over You." Lyrics by William Jerome and Ray Goetz. 1915
Von Tilzer, Albert. "If You Only Had Disposition (My Daddy Came from Paree)." Words by Charles McCarron. 1915
Jerreld, Charles J. W. "Independence Day." Words by Joseph F. Gibbs. 1911

1:9 Henry, S. R. "Indianola." Words by Frank H. Warren. 1918
Hall, Wendell. "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'." 1923
Klenner, John. "Just Friends." Lyrics by Sam M. Lewis. 1931
O'Hara, Geoffrey. "K-K-K-Katy." 1918
Cowan, Lynn. "Kisses (The Sweetest Kisses of All)." Lyrics by Alex Sullivan. 1918

1:10 Razaf, Andy and Denniker, Paul. "The Language of Love." 1929
Ball, Ernest R. "Let the Rest of the World Go By." Lyrics by J. Keirn Brennan. 1919
Roberts, Lee S. "A Little Birch Canoe and You." Lyrics by J. Will Callahan. 1918
Smith, Laura R. and Fearis, J. S. "Little Sire Echo." 1938
Morse, Theodore. "Mother. A word that means the world to me." Words by Howard Johnson. 1915

1:11 Keithley and Thompson. "May God and His Angels Guard You Dear, That is Your Mother's Prayer." 1914
Rubinstein, Arthur. "Rubinstein's Melody in F." 1938
Van Alstyne, Egbert. "Memories." Lyrics by Gustave Kahn. 1915
Bush, H. W. "Montani Semper Liberi." 1913
Creamer and Layton. "Mother Darling." 1919

1:12 Polla, W. C. "My Castles in the Air are Tumbling Down." Words by Arthur J. Lamb. 1919
Von Tilzer, Albert. "My Cutey's Due at Two-to-Two Today." Words by Leo Robin, 1926
Levenson, Robert and Garton, Ted. "My Little Gypsy Wanda Won't You Wander Back to Me." 1918
Meyer, George W. "My Mother's Rosary." Words by Sam M. Lewis. 1915
Earl, Mary. "My Sweetheart is Somewhere in France." 1917

1:13 Kahn, Gus and Donaldson, Walter. "What Do I Care - What Do I Care, My Sweetie Turned Me Down." 1925
Fiorito, Ted and Erdman, Ernie. "No No Nora." Words by Gus Kahn. 1923
Weber, Edwin J. "Nobody Lied (When they said that I cried over you)." Lyrics by Karyl Norman and Hyatt Berry. 1922
Berlin, Irving. "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." 1918

1:14 Foster, Stephen C. "Old Folks at Home." 1899
Cobb, George L. and Barron, Ted S. "On Honolulu Bay."
Keithley, E. Clinton. "We'll Sing: Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here on the Sidewalks of Berlin." 1918
Cohan, George M. "Over There." 1918
Brandon, Clarence. "Please Touch My Daddy's Star Again and Change it Back to Blue." Lyric by Marion Phelps. 1918

1:15 "Popular Songs, Vol. I." Published by Leo Feist, 1918
Lincoln, Harry J. "Rose Garden Waltzes." 1915
Polla, W. C. "School March." 1909
Donizetti, Gaetano. "Sextet from Lucia." 1907
Moret, Neil. "I Got a Woman, Crazy for Me She's Funny that Way." Words by Richard A. Whiting. 1928

1:16 Stone, Eddie and David, Hubert W. "Show That Fellow the Door." 1926
Danks, H. P. "Solver Threads Among the Gold." Words by Eben Rexford. 1912
Gillham, Art. "Smile as You Kiss Me Good-bye." Words by Raymond Egan. 1918
Van Alstyne, Egbert. "So Long, Mother." Lyrics by Raymond Egan and Gus Kahn. 1918
Gumble, Albert. "so Long Sammy." Lyrics by Benny Davis and Jack Yellen. 1917

1:17 Burke, Joseph A. "A Soldier's Rosary." Words by J. E. Dempsey. 1918
Burtnett, Earl. "Some Day." Words by Walter King. 1918
Crowe, Alys. "Some Day Song." 1911
Smith, Henry Clay. "Somebody's Coming to Town (From Dixie)." Lyrics by Raymond A. Browne. 1912
Platzmann, Eugene. "Some One Else." Words by George H. Carey. 1917

1:18 Kennedy, Harriet. "Star of Hope." 1934
Kern, Jerome. "Who?" 1925
Denni, Lucien. "Suppose the Rose Were You." Lyric by Gwynne Denni. 1922
Klickmann, F. Henri. "Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight." Lyrics by Harold G. Frost. 1919
Fitch, Art; Fitch, Kay; and Lowe, Bert. "I Love You-I Love You-I Love You Sweetheart of all My Dreams." 1928

1:19 Lincoln, Harry J. "Tango Queen, March Two-Step." 1915
Brown, George; Raskin, Willie; and Eliscu, Edward. "They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree." 1929
Manning, R. W. "There's a Flag That Each Yankee Will Fight for the Flag That is Red, White and Blue." 1917
Sweet, Al. "There's a Picture in My Old Kit Bag." 1917
Smith, Harry B. and Kern, Jerome D. "They Didn't Believe Me." 1914

1:20 Kidwell, Lloyd. "This Old Town." Words by Haven Gillespie. 1913
Whiting, Richard A. "Till We Meet Again, Song" Lyric by Raymond B. Egan. 1918
Carroll, Harry. "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine." Words by Ballard MacDonald. 1913
Lincoln, Harry J. "Vesper Chimes, Reverie Transcription." 1915
McCarthy, Joe; Johnson, Howard; Monaco, Jimmie. "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For." 1916

1:21 Rosoff, Charles. "When You and I Seventeen." Words by Gus Kahn. 1924
Miller, Ned and Cohn, Chester. "Why Should I Cry Over You." N.d.
Piantadosi, Al. "The Woman Thou Gavest Me." 1919
Davis, Benny and Burke, Joe. "Yearning Just for You." 1925
Ball, Ernest R. "You Can't Beat Us if it Takes Ten Million More." Lyrics by J. Keirn Brennan. 1918

1:22 Osborne, Nat. "You Tell 'Em." Words by A. Stanley Dunkerley. 1920
Berlin, Irving. "You'd Be Surprised." 1919
Donaldson, Walter. "You're a Million Miles from Nowhere (When You're One Little Mile from Home)." Words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young. 1919
Grey, Chauncey and Lown, Bert. "You're the One I Care For." Lyric by Harry Link. 1930

1:23 McCarron, Charles R. and Morgan, Carey. "Your Lips Are No Man's Land but Mine." Words by Arthur Guy Empey. 1918
Wendlling, Pete. "Oh What a Pal was Mary." Words by Edgar Leslie and Bea Kalmer. 1919


Oversized Box 2

2:1 "I'll Meet You At De Cross Roads in De Mornin'" by John T. Rutledge. Published by H. T. Martin in Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1877.
2:2 "March to the White House" by Chas K. Harris, dedicated to John W. Davis with compliments of the Democratic National Committee, 1924.
2:3 "Huntington - The City of Promise and Beauty: The Fall Festival Song" by Kenton and Carolyn Mitchell, 1915.
2:4 "La Bayadere Waltz or the White Sulphur Spring Waltz for the Piano Forte Music" by Auber, n.d.


Special Collections

West Virginia Archives and History