Collection Summary
Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers
1878-1959
1900-1949
1878-1959
1900-1949
ML31.V67
Von Tilzer, Harry, 1872-1946
Gumm, H. Harold
approximately 11,000 items
76 containers
1 mapcase folder
26.0 linear feet
English
Material in English
Music Division, Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
The Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm
Papers consist of both personal and professional papers of composer and music publisher
Harry Von Tilzer (1872-1946) and his brother, H. Harold Gumm (1881 or 82-1973), who was
a lawyer, agent, and producer in the entertainment business. After having served as
attorney for the Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. (HVTMPC) for several decades,
Harold Gumm served as executor of Harry Von Tilzer's estate and took over the company
when Von Tilzer died in 1946. This collection contains the records of the HVTMPC which
are inextricably combined not only with Harry Von Tilzer's papers but also with Gumm's
papers and those of his firm Goldie & Gumm. Von Tilzer's personal papers include
correspondence, writings, legal and financial documents, and drafts of his
autobiography. The HVTMPC materials primarily consist of music (manuscript and printed),
lyrics (manuscript and typewritten), scripts, legal and financial records, and a catalog
of works published by HVTMPC. Most of Gumm's subject files relate to his activities as
an agent for many prominent black performers of the 1930s and 1940s. Materials relating
to their brothers (music publisher Will Von Tilzer; songwriter Albert Von Tilzer; and
Jules and Jack Von Tilzer, who both worked in the family business) also appear in the
collection. In addition, the collection contains programs, photographs, and
clippings.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
People
Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969. Cabin in the sky (Musical)
Gum family.
Gumm, H. Harold--Archives.
Gumm, H. Harold--Correspondence.
Gumm, H. Harold.
Gumm, H. Harold.
Hairston, Jester, 1901-2000.
Hale, Teddy.
Harvey, Georgette.
Ingram, Rex, 1895-1969.
McCree, Junie, 1865-1918.
Nordstrom, Frances.
Singer, Dolph, 1900-1942.
Sterling, Andrew B., 1874-1955--Correspondence.
Von Tilzer, Albert.
Von Tilzer, Harry, 1872-1946--Archives.
Von Tilzer, Harry, 1872-1946--Correspondence.
Von Tilzer, Harry, 1872-1946.
Von Tilzer, Harry, 1872-1946.
Von Tilzer, Harry, 1872-1946. Songs. Selections.
Von Tilzer, Jules.
Organizations
Goldie & Gumm.
Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.
Harry Von Tilzer Music Pub. Co.--Archives.
Subjects
African American entertainers--Correspondence.
African American entertainers--Photographs.
Composers--United States--Correspondence.
Music publishers--United States--Correspondence.
Music publishers--United States--Photographs.
Music publishing--United States.
Musical theater--United States--19th century.
Musical theater--United States--20th century.
Popular music--1901-1910.
Popular music--1911-1920.
Popular music--To 1901.
Theatrical agents--United States.
Vaudeville--United States.
Titles
Von Tilzer / Gumm collection, 1878-1959
Form/Genre
Autographs (Manuscripts)
Bibliographies.
Business correspondence.
Clippings (Information artifacts)
Drama.
Financial records.
Legal correspondence.
Legal documents.
Personal correspondence.
Photographs.
Poetry.
Popular music.
Revues.
Scores.
Songs.
Theater programs.
Vaudeville songs.
Provenance
Purchase; through the Heritage Bookshop in Los Angeles from an unidentified owner;
1982
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing History
The Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers were processed by Claudia Widgery in
1993. The finding aid was coded for EAD by Nancy Seeger in 2010.
Copyright Status
Materials from the Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers are governed by the
Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.) and other applicable international
copyright laws.
Access and Restrictions
The Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers are open to research. Researchers are
advised to contact the Music Division prior to visiting in order to determine whether
the desired materials will be available at that time.
Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information:
[item, date, container number], Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers, Music
Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Harry Von Tilzer was born Harold Gumm on July 8, 1872 to Jacob and Sarah Tilzer Gumm in
Goshen, Indiana. At the age of fourteen he ran away to join the circus, and at seventeen
joined the Chamberlain Stock Company in Chicago, changing his name from Gumm to a
variant of his mother's maiden name, Von Tilzer. He moved to New York in 1892, and was a
performer on the vaudeville circuit for many years, frequently partnered with George
Sidney and managed by Tony Pastor. In conjunction with his vaudeville performing, he had
been writing songs, and in New York began to peddle them in Tin Pan Alley -- a slang
term for the music-publishing district that has been credited to Von Tilzer himself. He
joined the publishing firm of Shapiro, Bernstein in 1899, but soon left to form his own
firm, the Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. (HVTMPC), in 1902.
In his unpublished biography (many drafts of which are found in this collection), Von
Tilzer claims to have written over 8000 songs during his career, of which 2000 were
published, some of the best known being "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" (1900), "In the Sweet
Bye and Bye" (1902), "The Cubanola Glide" (1909), and "That Old Irish Mother of Mine"
(1920). In addition, he wrote the music for and financed the production of a number of
musicals, including
The Fisher Maiden
(1903),
Heigh Ho
(1905), and
The Kissing Girl
(1909). In addition to writing and publishing songs, Von Tilzer was active in
establishing organizations such as the Song Writers' Protective Association, and, as an
early and active member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP), joined with composers such as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Victor Herbert and
John Philip Sousa in attempting to effect changes in the music copyright laws.
Harry Von Tilzer had several brothers, most of whom also took the name Von Tilzer: Will
Von Tilzer, a music publisher in his own right who was president of the Broadway Music
Corporation; Albert Von Tilzer, a songwriter who settled in California and is best known
for songs such as "Take Me Out to the Ball Game;" Jules Von Tilzer, who worked with his
brother Harry at the HVTMPC; and Jack Von Tilzer, who also worked for a time in the
family business. Only H. Harold Gumm retained the family name, and started the firm of
Goldie & Gumm with partner William V. Goldie. Trained as a lawyer, Gumm was active
on both the East and West Coasts as a theatrical agent and attorney who had as clients
some of the best known black performers of the 1930s and 1940s.
The firm of Goldie & Gumm also handled the legal affairs of the Harry Von Tilzer
Music Publishing Co. up to and following Harry's death in January of 1946. At that
point, Harold Gumm, executor of Von Tilzer's estate, took over as the president of the
publishing company. Partner William Goldie continued to handle the firm's legal matters
from that point, but Gumm's activities as a theatrical agent were largely curtailed.
Extensive litigation over the HVTMPC catalog dragged through the 1940s and 1950s, and
the catalog was put up for sale in 1957.
Scope and Content Note
The Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers consist of both personal and professional
papers of composer and music publisher Harry Von Tilzer and his brother, H. Harold Gumm,
who was both a lawyer and an agent cum producer in the entertainment business. The date
span of the collection is from 1878 to 1959, with the bulk of the materials dating
between the early 1900s and the 1940s. Because Harold Gumm served as executor of Harry
Von Tilzer's estate and took over the Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. when Von
Tilzer died in 1946 (after having served as attorney for the publishing house for
several decades), the records of the HVTMPC are inextricably combined not only with
Harry Von Tilzer's papers but also with Gumm's papers and those of Goldie & Gumm.
Various papers of Harry's other brothers also appear in the collection. Therefore,
although the collection has been organized into traditional series according to type of
materials, within each series type the materials are divided into the following
categories by originator (where necessary): Harry Von Tilzer, Estate of Harry Von
Tilzer, Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co., [Other Von Tilzer brothers], H. Harold
Gumm, William V. Goldie, and Goldie & Gumm.
The personal papers of Harry Von Tilzer consist of writings, correspondence, and various
legal and financial documents. There are several manuscript and typewritten drafts of
his unpublished autobiography, which chronicles not only his own experiences as a
vaudevillian and composer but also the development of the music publishing business in
New York from the turn of the century through the 1930s. Noteworthy in his
correspondence is that with one of his primary collaborators, lyricist Andrew B.
Sterling. His legal papers include song contracts with other publishers, including those
dating from before he established his own publishing house in 1902. The records of his
estate, both legal and financial, provide additional insight into his personal and
family ties, particularly his relationship with his stepdaughter, Aimee V. Samuels.
The materials in the collection from the records of the Harry Von Tilzer Music
Publishing Co. consist primarily of music, lyrics, scripts, and legal and financial
records. There is a significant amount of songs, with over 800 titles in manuscript
form, ranging from lead sheets without words to complete piano-vocal scores. There are
an additional five boxes of lyric sheets, both manuscript and typewritten, some of which
designate the letter names of notes over the words to indicate the intended melody. An
ASCAP listing of the HVTMPC catalog, revised in 1957, provides the most recent
itemization of the publisher's list (see box 69).
Several musicals are represented in the collection, including orchestral scores and
parts for
The Kissing Girl
,
The Fisher Maiden
, and
Tiddleywinks (or Snowdrop and the Pirates)
. There are four boxes of scripts without music as well, representing authors
such as Dolph Singer, Frances Nordstrom, and Junie McCree. A number of untitled "gags"
and "specials" in manuscript form are also included.
The financial records of the HVTMPC are far from complete, including ledgers, financial
reports, ASCAP royalty distributions and the like but covering only limited and erratic
date spans. The legal files of the HVTMPC are far more substantial, particularly in the
contracts and litigation files. There are more than 120 song contracts in the
collection, as well as numerous other contracts with authors and producers. The
litigation files are highlighted by the papers of HVTMPC vs. Jerry Vogel Music Co. et al
and its appeal, the correspondence, depositions, and other trial documents of which fill
four boxes and span the years 1937 to 1955.
The subject files and correspondence are among the most noteworthy of H. Harold Gumm's
papers. Most of Gumm's subject files consist of the correspondence, programs, financial
records, and/or clippings relating to his activities as an agent for black performers
such as Georgette Harvey, Jester Hairston, Rex Ingram, and Teddy Hale. Another file
documents Gumm's participation in a touring production of
Cabin in the Sky
, originating in Chicago and starring Ethel Waters, Todd Duncan, and Rex Ingram.
Gumm's correspondence with Walter Meyers, a Hollywood agent, and William Redford, Gumm's
California representative, document Gumm's activities as an agent and producer involved
in stage, film, and ultimately television productions.
The photographs in the collection include not only numerous professional and personal
shots of Harry Von Tilzer and his brothers but also many photographs of early vaudeville
performers, some of which bear inscriptions to Harry or Albert Von Tilzer. Other series
include an assortment of programs from music halls and vaudeville houses dating from
1906 to 1940 and a large number of clippings from the late 1800s to the 1950s.
Organization of the Harry Von Tilzer and H. Harold Gumm Papers
The collection is arranged into fifteen series:
-
[ Biographical Materials ](vtg01)
-
[ Writings ](vtg02)
-
[ Correspondence, 1921-1958
](vtg03)
-
[ Music ](vtg04)
-
[ Scripts ](vtg05)
-
[ Subject Files, 1931-1954
](vtg06)
-
[ Legal Papers, 1899-1957
](vtg07)
-
[ Financial Papers, 1899-1957
](vtg08)
-
[ Catalog of the Harry Von
Tilzer Music Publishing Co. ](vtg09)
-
[ Programs, 1894-1940 ](vtg10)
-
[ Photographs ](vtg11)
-
[ Clippings, 1900-1959 ](vtg12)
-
[ Miscellany ](vtg13)
Catalog Record: [https://lccn.loc.gov/2006568222]
Container List
Container
Contents
1
Biographical Materials
Bios, press releases, articles, lists of songs and musicals by the Von Tilzers,
transcripts of interviews with Harry Von Tilzer, and other materials.
1/1
Biographical data
Bios, press release, and other materials
1/2
List of biographical data (for California)
Citations of clippings about Harry Von
Tilzer
1/3
List of songs by Harry Von Tilzer
1/4
List of songs by Albert Von Tilzer
1/5
List of musicals by Albert Von
Tilzer
1/6
List of songs - Miscellaneous
1/7
The Story behind the Song
Descriptions of songs by Harry Von
Tilzer
1/8-9
Transcripts of interviews with Harry Von Tilzer,
1939 and undated
1939 and
undated
1/10
"Harry and Albert Von Tilzer," Billboard, March 19, 19--
Typescript of article
1/11
"3000 Songs Before His First Real Hit," Cosmopolitan, July 1926
Typescript of article
1/12
Membership cards of Harry Von Tilzer
1-2
Writings
Several versions of Harry Von Tilzer's autobiography and writings by others
related to this work, such as synopses, screen treatments, and comments.
Writings by Harry Von Tilzer
1/13-15
Mister Tin Pan Alley, Himself
Typescript, 164 p., with cover letter from
Harry Von Tilzer to H. Harold Gumm
Typescript, 164 p.
Typescript, 159 p. (complete)
1/16
Story of Harry Von Tilzer's Career
Typescript, 194 p.
1/17
Story of Harry Von Tilzer's Career
Typescript, partial, 23 p.
73/1
Untitled autobiography
Holograph manuscript, pencil on oversize brown
paper, 65 p.
1/18
Untitled autobiography
Typescript, 158 p.
1/19
Writing a Popular Song
Holograph manuscript, 5 p.
Writings by Others
2/1
Culver, Lillian.
Synopsis of Mister Tin Pan Alley, Himself
2/2
Herzig, Sig, and Albert Lewis.
Take Me Back to New York Town
, 1949
1949
2/3
Shaw, E. A.
Synopsis of Mister Tin Pan Alley, Himself
2/4
The Von Tilzers: Skeleton Synopsis of Mister Tin Pan Alley,
Himself
2/5
Suggested Screen Treatment of the Von Tilzers
2/6
H. Harold Gumm's comments on the life story
of Harry Von Tilzer
2-10
Correspondence, 1921-1958
1921-1958
Letters sent and received by Harry Von Tilzer, H. Harold Gumm, William V. Goldie,
and others.
Chiefly arranged alphabetically by corporate entity or last name of
correspondent.
Harry Von Tilzer
2/7
Adams, Robert W.
2/8
American Red Cross
2/9
Anheuser-Busch, inc.
2/10
D. Appleton-Century Company
2/11
A.S.C.A.P.
2/12
Ash, Paul
2/13
Aucoin, Lionel A.
2/14
Authors League of America
2/15
Aylward, James P.
2/16
Baer, Arthur "Bugs"
2/17
Bellos, George
2/18
Irving Berlin, Inc.
2/19
Bernard, Sam
2/20
Bird, Carol
2/21
Brahany, Thomas
2/22
Bryan, Vincent
2/23
Bye, George T.
2/24
Capital Music Co.
2/25
Cerf, Bennett
2/26
Cochrane, Nick
2/27
Cohan, George M.
2/28
Conn, Dick
2/29
Cooper, Charles G.
2/30
Costello, Harry F.
2/31
Curtis, Billy
2/32
Davis, Clare B.
2/33
Decca Records, Inc.
2/34
Diamond, Louis S.
2/35
Dillon, William A.
2/36
Dreyfus, Max
2/37
Durling, E. V.
2/38
Edwards, Leo
2/39
Federal Trade Commission
2/40
Feist, Leo
2/41
Fox, Harry
2/42
Francis, Day & Hunter
2/43
Goldie, William V.
2/44
Green, Abel
2/45
Grosvenor Library
3/1
Gumm, H. Harold
3/2
Harmon, Roy
3/3
Healy, Vincent
3/4
Hill, Gus
3/5
Hueston, Billy
3/6
Indiana University
3/7
Jones, Francis Arthur
3/8
Kenny, Nick
3/9
Kerr, Harry D.
3/10
Kings Feature Syndicate
3/11
Lang, Helen
3/12
Levish, Thomas
3/13
Lewis, Mrs. Ted
3/14
Lucas, Jimmie
3/15
Maddock, C. B.
3/16
Martin, Hunter
3/17
McKeon, Joseph H.
4/17
Miscellany
3/18
Moran, Edward P.
3/19
Munters, Saul L.
3/20
Murphy, E. H.
3/21
Murphy, Mrs. Stanley [i.e. Elizabeth M.
Murphy]
3/22
Music Dealers Service
3/23
Music Publishers' Holding Corp.
3/24
Music Publishers' Protective
Association
3/25
National Variety Artists
3/26
Newman, Alfred
3/27
Nizer, Louis
3/28
O'Brien, A. H.
3/29
Peer, Ralph
3/30
Platzman, Eugene
3/31
Powell, W. Templar
3/32
Progressive Music Publishers
3/33
Ringle, Dave
3/34
The Rotarian
3/35
Ruby, Harry
3/36
Salkow, Irving
3/37
Samuels, Aimee V.
3/38
Seamon, Harry
3/39
Segool, Benjamin
3/40
Shapiro, Elliot
3/41
Singer, Dolph
3/42
Smith, Robert Garland
3/43
Snyder, Ted
3/44
Song Writers' Protective
Association
3/45
Spaeth, Sigmund
4/1-4
Sterling, Andrew B.
4/5
Tamarin, Al
4/6
Theatre Guild, Inc.
4/7
Tucker, Sophie
4/8
USO Camp Shows, Inc.
4/9
Vestal, A. H.
4/10
Von Tilzer, Karlyn
4/11
Von Tilzer, William
4/12
Ward, Kathrin Clare
4/13
Wattenberg, A. M.
4/14
Whipple, Odell
4/15
Whiting, Sadie
4/16
Winchell, Walter
Jules Von Tilzer
4/18
Albertina, Ethel
4/19
Burton, Jack
4/20
Campbell, S. Brunson
4/21
Ferguson, Dave
4/22
Goldie, William V.
4/23
Hynard, Marjorie
4/24
Jewish Theatrical Guild of
America
4/25
Johnson, Irbie
4/26
Kendis, Lillian [i.e. Mrs. James
Kendis]
Miscellany
4/36-37
Miscellany
4/38
RE: HVTMPC payments
4/27
Radcliffe, Ella
4/28
Saltpeter, Sophie
4/29
Salvador & Nigro
4/30
Shapiro, Elliot
4/31
Sontag, Sophie
4/32
Sterling, Andrew B.
4/33
Terker, Arthur
4/34
Von Tilzer, Albert
4/35
Steven Wise Free Synagogue
H. Harold Gumm
5/1-3
Arnow, Max
5/4-6
A.S.C.A.P.
5/7
Beale, Ella
5/8
Benjamin, Ben
5/9
Bernstein, Harry M.
5/10
Blau, Victor
5/11
Blumberg, Nate J.
5/12
Blume & Jolles
5/13
Blume, Jolles, Gruber, Szabad &
Gerson
5/14
Borinstein, Manuel R.
5/15
Bornstein, Saul
6/1
Brandon, Joseph M.
6/2
Broadway Muisc Corp.
6/3
Bryk, Hugo
6/4
Davis, Irving K.
6/5
DeMarco, Tony & Sally
6/6
Douglass, John W.
6/7
Dreyer, Louis A.
6/8
Finkelstein, Jake R.
6/9
Fitzgerald, Leo
6/10
Fox, Harry
6/11
Foyer, Bernie
6/12
Garfunkel, George
6/13
Gilbert, L. Wolfe
6/14
Gleis, Stanley N.
6/15
Goldberg, Jack
6/16
Goldie, William V.
6/17
Greer, Norman & Gloria
6/18
Gumm, Elizabeth
6/19
Gumm, Trudy [i.e. Mrs. H. Harold]
6/20
Hennigs, Frank
6/21
Higgins, Joe & Sadie
6/22
Hirsch & Co.
6/23
Kepler, Tobias A.
6/24
Klausner, Bertha
6/25
Landers, Rolli [i.e. Mrs. Lou
Landers]
6/26
Leibner, Sol L.
6/27
Lewis, Albert
6/28
Lewis, Ted & Adah
6/29
Library of Congress
7/1
McEathron, Margaret
7/2
McLaughlin, Edward J.
7/3
McPherson, Harry
7/4
Metropolitan Life Insurance
7/5
Meyers, Abe
7/6-8
Meyers, Walter
7/9
Miller, Taps
Miscellany
10/9
Address list
10/1
Automobile
10/2
Banks
10/3
Domestic help
8/12
Harry Von Tilzer Memorial Tribute,
1946-1954
1946-1954
10/4
Health care and interrment
10/5
Hotels
10/6
Investments
10/8
Miscellany
8/13
Negotiations RE: sale of HVTMPC in
1957
9/1-7
Office correspondence,
1946-1958
1946-1958
10/7
Sympathy notices
7/10
Mitchell, Mae
7/11
Moran, Edward
7/12
Leo Morrison, Inc.
7/13
New York Times Sunday Magazine
7/14
Orsatti Agency
7/15
Page, Olivia
7/16
Paul, Robert T.
7/17
Radio Station KNX
7/18-19
Redford, William
7/20
Reinhardt, Max
7/21
Romberg, Sigmund
7/22
Salkow, Irving
7/23
Saltpeter, Sophie
7/24
Singer, Wally [i.e. Mrs. Leo
Singer]
7/25
Smitman, Ralph
7/26
Sontag, Mae
7/27
Spaeth, Sigmund
8/1
Starn, E. A. (HVTMPC, 1921-1922)
1921-1922)
8/2
Sterling, Andrew B.
8/3
Sullivan, Ed & Sylvia
8/4
Thomas, Earl G.
8/5
U. S. Treasury Department.
8/6
Von Tilzer, Albert
8/7
Von Tilzer, Jules
8/8
Von Tilzer, Will & Blanche
8/9
Wing, Ted & Patricia
8/10
Winkler, Daniel M.
8/11
Albert Woodley Co.
William V. Goldie
10/10
Broadway Music Corp.
10/11
Mahoney, Jack
10/15
Miscellany
10/12
Mitchell, Mae
10/13
Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin &
Krim
10/14
Sherwood, Vince
Correspondence from others to the following:
10/16
Dorner, Charles J.
10/17
Preston, Walter
10/18
Singer, Dolph
11-45, 73
Music
11-25
Vocal Music, Manuscripts
Lead sheets (with or without text), piano scores, piano-vocal scores, and other
materials.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
11/1
Abba dabba [also known as "Monkey
song"]
Stone
Piano; text
11/2
ABC Medley
11/3
Abie and me and the baby
Lew Brown,
Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal; parts
11/4
Abraham
11/5
Absent minded Mary
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano-vocal (without words); 1st violin;
text
11/6
Aching hearts
11/7
Achoo song
Chas Robinson
11/8
Ah-ah-ah-ah I'll tell my Ma
Text
11/9
Ain't that guy got nerve
Piano; text
11/10
Ain't that mean
11/11
Alabama bound
11/12
All by our lonely
1st violin part (conductor)
11/13
All comes out in the wash
Harry Von
Tilzer
11/14
All sorts of eyes
11/15
All the girls lovely girls
11/16
Alley
11/17
Alone in the dark (duet from
Mad Love
)
Piano; text
11/18
Along the Milky Way
Piano; text
11/19
America
11/20
American bookmakers
11/21
An angel
11/22
Angel of love
Tommy Ray
11/23
Anton, he's a craze
11/24
Any old man will do (duet, Eleanor &
Pussy)
11/25
Any old night is moonlight when you're on
Broadway
Text
11/26
Arrah go long with you [
see Green in your eye](green)
11/27
At the lovers' ball
11/28
At the old town pump
Piano; six saxophones; text
11/29
At the Yiddish wedding dance
11/30
Attic
Harry Von Tilzer, Phil
White
11/31
Auld lang syne
Frank Fogarty
Piano
11/32
Babette [Minuet]
Piano
11/33
Baby
Piano; female quartet; cornet part
11/34
Baby o' mine
11/35
Baby, save your kisses for me
Frank
Tinarey, Fred Strasser, Joe Hartig
Piano-vocal
11/36
Baby smiles at me
Lead sheet
11/37
Bad, bad baby
Kids' routine
11/38
Baldy
11/39
Bamboo bungalow
11/40
Band played Dixie
11/41
Barnyard gale
11/42
Bass viol
Male quartet
11/43
Bathing
Ben Welch
11/44
Batter up
Male quartet
11/45
Battery F
11/46
Battle for living
Frank Fogarty, Grace
Edmonds
Piano
11/47
The beautiful snow
Andrew B. Sterling,
Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal
11/48
Billy's Betty girl
11/49
Bing bing
Text
11/50
The bluebird's lament
Text
11/51
Blues
Pinkard, Marian Lewis
Lead sheet; trombone part
12/1
Booby-house
12/2
Book
12/3
Book song
Columbia show.
12/4
Bridget McCann, you're a jewel
Vincent
Bryan, Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal
12/5
Bring back
Rowland, Pall Mall
3
Quartet; male trio
12/6
Broadway
Text
12/7
The Broadway handicap
12/8
Broadway must be heaven
Bassoon part
12/9
Broadway scale of love
Piano; text
12/10
Broadway touch
Text
12/11
Broken heart
Ed Barnes
12/12
Brother Mike
Frank Fogarty
Piano
12/13
Brotherly love
Jack Norworth, Harry Von
Tilzer
Text
12/14
Brutus Caesar
12/15
Bubbles
Wells
12/16
Busy bee
Ben
12/17
Buy a liberty bond for the baby
Ed
Moran, Harry Von Tilzer
Piano
12/18
Bye and bye
Quartets
12/19
Cabby
Piano
12/20
Can't get away from me
Harry
Hastings
12/21
Can't keep my eyes
Bergeron,
King
12/22
Can't you see
Nat Vincent
Lead sheet
12/23
Captain Curly Head
12/24
Carolina sunshine
Wm. K. Wells; Pall
Mall 3; 6 Kirksmiths; Rover; Mrs. Thornton
Piano; trios; quartets
12/25
Castle in Spain
Sam Howe
12/26
Cat is away
12/27
Cause of it all
Myrtle &
Pauli
12/28
Celia (1903)
Harry Wellman
Text; contract
12/29
Charity
Bensee & Baird
12/30
Cheat
12/31
Cheer up
Big City 4
Piano-vocal (without words);
quartet
12/32
Cherie
12/33
Chicken farm
12/34
Choo choo car
12/35
Chop sticks
Jack Norworth
12/36
Christmas
12/37
Christofo Colombo
Al
Piantadosi
12/38
Circus (excerpts)
Leo Hoyt
12/39
The circus band
12/40
Come and dance with me
12/41
Come back to me (Spanish coon song)
Frank Hayes
12/42
Come on over
Harry Von Tilzer, Grace
Fisher
Lead sheet; text
12/43
Come on Susan, come on Joe
Text
12/44
Come to the circus
12/45
Consequences
Vincent Bryan, Harry Von
Tilzer
Text
12/46
Coochi coochi coo
Text
12/47
Cotton blossom Sue
12/48
Couldn't happen to me
12/49
Country
12/50
Croquet
Dolph Singer, Harry Von
Tilzer
Text
12/51
Cry baby
12/52
Cuckoo reel
12/53
The custard pie song (Act II, no.
12)
12/54
Curiosity
12/55
Cute little plane for two
13/1
Daddy knows
13/2
Dance medley
Tom Overholt
13/3
Dance of death (Finale, Act I)
13/4
Dancing by the sea
Text
13/5
Dat spoony rag
W. Raymond
Walker
Piano
13/6
Days (new patter)
Arranged by Ed.
Smalle
Piano
13/7
Dear old mother days
13/8
Disappointed
Piano
13/9
Discovered you
Vocal parts
13/10
Dixie
Romain & La Pearl; Leslie
Connell Trio
Trio; male quartet
13/11
Does anybody want my Fido?
(1919)
Garfield Kilgour, Harry Von Tilzer
(1919)
Piano-vocal; text
13/12
Does you love Honey
13/13
Doing hi bit
13/14
Doll
Mrs. Sydney
Male quartet
13/15
Dolly shook her golden curls
13/16
Do they do those things in New York
Edward Clark
1st violin part
13/17
Do you get me?
13/18
Done before
Piano
13/19
Don't do that
Ed Moran, Harry Von
Tilzer, Lillian Lorraine
Piano-vocal; piano; parts; text
13/20
Don't know where
Quartets
13/21
Don't make me laugh
13/22
Don't say good-bye
Dannie
O'Neil
Piano; lead sheet
13/23
Don't stop
Text
13/24
Don't talk about home
Harry Von
Tilzer
13/25
Don't wake me up
13/26
Don't you remember me?
Text
13/27
Doo-da
13/28
Doo dah dey
13/29
Doodle doodle doo
13/30
Dooley did the booly booly
Text
13/31
Down by the river Nile
George Totten
Smith, Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal
13/32
Down in Madagascar land
13/33
Down in rag-time row
13/34
Down on the farm
13/35
Dreams
Sterling 3
Piano; vocal quartet; trio
13/36
Dreams come true
13/37
Ebenezer
13/38
Egypt
13/39
Eli
13/40
Ely, good bye
13/41
End of world
13/42
Every morning
Text
13/43
Ev'ry tear is a smile (in an Irishman's
heart)
Piano
13/44
Everybody knows that I love you, dear
Text
13/45
Everybody's on the make
13/46
Exposition four
Flute and trombone parts
13/47
Eyes can't see me
13/48
Faces across the bar
Harry Von Tilzer,
Fred Nolan
13/49
Fairy tales
13/50
The famous galloping girl
13/51
Far away look
Harry Von Tilzer
Parts
13/52
Far far away
13/53
Farewell Miss Clarabelle
13/54
Farmer
Piano
13/55
Father said something to mother
13/56
Finger in the pie
13/57
Fool out of Broadway
13/58
French
Phil White
13/59
Funny little walk
14/1
Game of love
Childs in F
Piano
14/2
Ganges River
14/3
Garden of lies
14/4
Gay Paree
Midgie Miller
14/5
Gee ain't I glad I'm home
14/6
Genevieve
14/7
Gentleman
Charlotte Parry
14/8
Georgia
Sterling Trio
Quartet arrangement
14/9
German heaven
14/10
The ghost of the ukelele
Piano; text
14/11
Ginger
14/12
Girl for me
Millard & Gay
Lorette
14/13
The girl I left
14/14
The girl I left before I left
(1909)
Mahoney, Harry Von Tilzer
(1909)
Piano-vocal; text
14/15
Girl song
Three parts
14/16
A girl who don't like the boys
14/17
A girl who's one of the boys
14/18
Give me the right to call you mine
Harry
Von Tilzer; Sterling Trio
Guitar/vocal; vocal trio
14/19
Give my love to Nellie
14/20
Golden days
Piano; lead sheet
14/21
Goodbye Antonio
14/22
Goodbye Susan, goodbye Jane
14/23
Good for nothing
Doris
Wilson
Three vocal parts
14/24
Good man now
14/25
The good ole song of the blue and
gray
14/26
Good ship Honeymoon
14/27
Good time Charlie
Text
14/28
Gorilla grab
14/29
Got nothing
14/30
Gowns
Herlein
Piano; text
14/31
Grape juice bill
14/32
Great big world
14/33
Green in your [me] eye [also known
as "Arrah go long with you"]
Eddie Moran, Harry Von Tilzer
Piano; instrumental parts; text
14/34
The greeter
May Hickey
14/35
Gumshoe man
14/36
Gunga
Special - Big City 4.
14/37
Hackensack
14/38
Hannah's going to get me sure
14/39
Happy hunting ground
14/40
Harry
14/41
Harvest days
Piano
14/42
Harvest moon
Elm City 4
Male quartet; female quartet
14/43
Has anybody got an umbrella
14/44
Have a heart
Sterling, Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano-vocal
14/45
Have you forgotten so soon?
(1935)
Harry Von Tilzer
(1935)
Piano-vocal (with guitar); piano
14/46
Have you no heart
14/47
He learned about women from me
Text
14/48
He was a hero in the army
Phil
Baker
14/49
He was talking
14/50
He's always doing something
Piano
14/51
Hebrew sailor song
Sam Howe
15/1
Hello! Boys, I'm back again
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano; parts
15/2
Help
Piano; lead sheet
15/3
Hennessey
15/4
Here's your hat
15/5
Highland Mary (Dance for)
Eddie
Foy
15/6
The hippodrome evangelist
Piano
15/7
Hm hm let's see
Billy Montgomery, George
Perry
Piano; parts
15/8
Hokum
15/9
Holding hands
15/10
Homesick
15/11
Honestly think
15/12
Honey bee (1926)
Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
(1926)
Piano
15/13
Honeymoon
R. C. McPherson, Chris
Smith
Text
15/14
Honoloo
Text
15/15
Honolula cabaret
Piano
15/16
Hot time
15/17
How about tonight?
15/18
How can I help
15/19
How much am I bid
Addison
Burkhardt
Text
15/20
How would you like in my auto car
15/21
Huckle
15/22
Husband
Miss Le Roy
Piano
15/23
I can't guess that you love me
Text
15/24
I could be coaxed
Sterling, Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano-vocal (partial); text
15/25
I don't count for nothin'
Text
15/26
I don't want another girlie
15/27
I feel it
15/28
I gave her that
Ed Moran, Dave Weisburg,
Dave Kaplan
Piano; text
15/29
I got an idea
Dolph Singer, Harry Von
Tilzer
15/30
I hate you
15/31
I heard different
Adair and
Gaylor
Piano
15/32
I just came from old Missouri
15/33
I know all about it now
George Duval,
Jr.
Text
15/34
I know just where she hangs out
15/35
I know nothing of love
Anna
Ford
Piano; parts
15/36
I left my old Kentucky home for you
Text
15/37
I love a little lovin
15/38
I love to make up with you
15/39
I love you even more dan dat
15/40
I might be coaxed but not by you
Harry
Von Tilzer
15/41
I never knew that I loved you
Lead sheet
15/42
I never that a girl like you
Piano
15/43
I.O.U.
15/44
I really hate to talk about myself
Text
15/45
I sez
Wimperis and
Davidson/Davidson
Piano-vocal (without words); text
15/46
I tried to make a fool out of B'way
Harry Von Tilzer
Piano
15/47
I used to be a regular actor
15/48
I used to call her honey
15/49
I want a boy
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano; text
15/50
I want a mama
15/51
I want a man
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano; text
15/52
I want a playmate
15/53
I want someone to float me
Edward
Clark
Piano-vocal; text
15/54
I want to be good
Frank Fay, Dave
Dreyer
Piano-vocal; piano
15/55
I want to be loved
Margaret Ford, Al
Doyle
15/56
I want to be somebody's baby
Ed Smalle,
Jesse Greer
Lead with words (duet)
15/57
I want you
Text
15/58
I wish I were you (1911)
Ballard Macdonald, Harry Piani
(1911)
Lead sheet
15/59
I won the family over
15/61
I wouldn't be surprised
Piano
16/1
I'd do as much for you
Text
16/2
I'd do the same for you
16/3
I'd like to change places with you
Text
16/4
I'd like to meet the fella that
wrote...
16/5
If all the nurses were like you...
Pauli
Piano
16/6
If I catch the guy
16/7
If I wait till the end of the world
Harry Von Tilzer
16/8
If it wasn't for you
16/9
If old Bill Jones were here
16/10
If the dreams that I dream come true
Billy K. Wells
Piano
16/11
If you don't think you ought to do
Sterling & Moran, Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal; text
16/12
If you don't want to lose you're
chicken
16/13
If you only had my disposition
(1915)
Albert Von Tilzer; arranged by Mornay D. Halm
(1915)
Parts
16/14
If you were mine
Text
16/15
I'll be the boy you be the girl
16/16
I'll be the words you'll be the music
"Ruth"
16/17
I'll be your Carmen if you be my
toreador
16/18
I'll be yours 'till Niagara Falls
Harry
R. Aurachev
16/19
I'll get even with you
16/20
I'll never pick a rose again
Text
16/21
I'll tell my big brother on you
16/22
Ill wind
Piano; text
16/23
I'm a devil of a fellow don't you
know
16/24
I'm a little bit afraid of you, B'way
Piano; parts
16/25
I'm an old sea dog
Text
16/26
I'm ashamed to tell the rest
Harry Von
Tilzer
16/27
I'm going down to beat my wife
William
F. Kirk, Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal
16/28
I'm homesick
Sterling, Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano-vocal (without words); text
16/29
I'm so good to the manager
16/30
I'm worried
16/31
In a chimney corner
Royal Musical
Five
Violin part
16/32
In an aeroplane built for two
Piano; text
16/33
In childhood days
Dick
Knowles
16/34
In de evenin' (1910)
Alex Rogers, Will Marion Cook
(1910)
Piano-vocal; text
16/35
In dreamy Spain
Alberto
Rizzo
Piano
16/36
In Ladyland
16/37
In London town
Sam Howe
16/38
In Matteawan
Piano
16/39
In Paree
16/40
In the cottage on Poverty Street
Andrew
B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
16/41
In the foolish-house
16/42
In the good old Irish way
Piano; text
16/43
In the land of the rising sun
Samuel A.
Massell
Piano
16/44
In the springtime
16/45
In you all my dreams come true
Text
16/46
Indian love
16/47
Indian summer moon
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano-vocal; text
16/48
Indian summer moon
George A. Kershaw,
Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal (3 copies); text
16/49
Intermezzo
Al Johns
16/50
Ireland
16/51
Irish home sweet home
Me, Him &
I
Piano; parts
16/52
The Irish Jew-bi-lee
Text
16/53
Irish melody
16/54
Irish song
Harry Von Tilzer
16/55
Irish songs of yesterday
Piano
16/56
Isn't my fault
16/57
It ain't so awful Mabel
16/58
It's a secret
Ballard MacDonald, Billy
Kilgard
Lead sheet
16/59
It's my birthday everyday
Eva
Tanguay
Piano
16/60
It's 100 to 1 he's in love
16/61
I've got it on them all
Eddie
Foy
Text
16/62
I've wasted my love on you
Dolph Singer,
Harry Von Tilzer
Piano; text
16/63
Ivy twines
17/1
Jack Smith rag
Smalle
Piano
17/2
Jakali
17/3
Japanese moon
Sam Howe
17/4
Jean
Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal; text
17/5
Jess (Special)
De Noyer
17/6
Jim
Nosse
Vocal quartet
17/7
Jingaboo
17/8
Jingle bells
4 Virginia
Girls
Piano
17/9
Jingle jungle town
17/10
Joe
17/11
Just
Piano
17/12
Just a little bit
17/13
Just a little party
17/14
Just an old jay
Big City 4
17/15
Just another poor man
Piano
17/16
Just as if I didn't know
White Sisters;
Honey Hurst
Piano; parts; text
17/17
Just as lonesome as you [also known as "Let's
play house"]
17/18
Just as Mother's was
17/19
Just as we used to be
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano-vocal; text
17/20
Just because he's good to me
Sterling,
Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal; text
17/21
Just like your dear old mother
Harry Von
Tilzer, Kaplan
Piano
17/22
Just lonesome for you
Arranged by Ed.
Smalle
Piano-vocal
17/23
Just nigger
Parry
17/24
Just one more
17/25
June's brides
Piano
17/26
K. W.
17/27
Kalamazoo
Prown &
Jackson
Piano
17/28
Katie Wood
Piano; text
17/29
Keep away from Elaine
Text
17/30
Keep Irish out
Hanlon &
Conrad
17/31
Keep it in the family
17/32
Kentucky Sue
17/33
Kicking around
17/34
Kiddie Koo
17/35
King Solomon
Text
17/36
Kisses for sale
Text
17/37
Kissing rag
Manning &
Moore
17/38
Kitty Rooney
Arthur E. Behim
Piano-vocal; text
17/39
Knit knit knit
17/40
Knock a little louder Ephraham
Harry Von
Tilzer
18/1
Lady Lou
Sherwood Trio
Piano
18/2
Lamp us on the campus
Hi, Icho,
Icho
2nd violin part
18/3
The land o' love
Will Heelan, Herbert
Walters
Piano-vocal
18/4
Land of Eskimo
Columbia summer show.
18/5
Language of the eyes
18/6
Lantern dance
1st violin part
18/7
The lassie I know
18/8
Last day
Burr & Meyer
18/9
Laughing song
Piano
18/10
Laura Lee
Piano; text
18/11
Leave it to Eva
18/12
Lemon tree
18/13
Leo Friedman
18/14
Let me dream, dream, dream [also known as
"Mr. Dreamer"]
Text
18/15
Let me see old Ireland
Piano
18/16
Let's get acquainted
18/17
Life ain't worth living
George B.
Alexander, Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal
18/18
Life is one thing after another
18/19
Life saver
Larry Comer
Piano
18/20
Life's what you make it
Gus Van, Joe
Scheuck
Piano
18/21
Lights go out
Piano
18/22
Like Kelly did
18/23
Like telling a kid there ain't no Santa Claus
Text
18/24
Lion
Male quartet
18/25
Listen to the anvil chorus
18/26
Little bit - I'll say so
18/27
A little bundle from heaven
18/28
Little devil
Vincent
Text
18/29
A little German heaven
18/30
Liza
18/31
Lollypop
Text
18/32
London town
Sam Howe
18/33
Long Island Sound
Piano; parts
18/34
Long long way to U.S.A.
Piano
18/35
Long way
Peerless 4
Vocal quartet
18/36
Look at me now and the day you got me
Text
18/37
Look who's here (Waltz)
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano
18/38
Looking hot and keeping cool
Text
18/39
Lost a girl
18/40
The lost chord blues
Text
18/42
Lovable rogue
Text
18/43
Love
Vocal quartet, quintet
18/44
Love is such a tender feeling
Piano; text
18/45
Love love love
18/46
Love me
Palais Royal
18/47
Love me, love my dog (no. 3)
Text
18/48
Love me nice [slumming]
Sterling, Harry
Von Tilzer
Parts; text
18/49
L-O-V-E spells love
Duncan
Sisters
Piano; text
18/50
Love time
18/51
Love will find
18/52
Lovin' Sam
18/53
Lucky girl
19/1
Mad Ma-Madeline
Louis Dacre
Text
19/2
Maggie McCart
19/3
Maggie spill the beans
19/4
Mah-jong
Piano
19/5
Maiden's prayer
19/6
Makim's
Female quartet
19/7
Man behind the hammer and saw
19/8
Mandy
Stock, arranged by
Smalle
Male quartet
19/9
March
Nick-o-demus
Saxophone trio
19/10
March song
Mossinger
19/20
March two step
19/21
Marie
19/22
Mariutcha
Piano
19/23
Mary
19/24
Maybe for someone but not for you
Text
19/25
Me & myself
Harry Von
Tilzer
19/26
Meanest man
19/27
Medleys
Piano; [texts]
19/28
Meet me at the ball tonight
19/29
Meet me at the Waldorf
19/30
Mirror
Dan Sullivan, Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano
19/31
Mickey Slater singing waiter
Norworth
Piano; lead sheet; text
19/32
Million reasons
19/33
Miserary
Henry Troy & Al
Johns
Piano
19/34
Miss Angelina Snow
Jas T.
Bryum
19/35
Miss Tammany
19/36
Mississippi shore
Text
19/37
Mistakes will happen
19/38
Mister G.
19/39
Mobile Sam, banjo man
19/40
Moon
19/41
Moonlight night
19/42
Mosquito & the frog
Whiting
Burt
19/43
Mother
Ad Hoyt; Bison City 4;
Rover
Piano; mixed quartets
19/44
Mother could only see me
19/45
Move up closer to me, kid
19/46
Mr. Booze man
19/47
Mr. Joy
May Ward
Piano; parts
19/48
Mum's the word
1st violin part
19/49
Music is playing
19/50
Music russle of the skirt
[slumming]
19/51
My bagpipe Sandy
Text
19/52
My birthday
19/53
My chop suey girl
A.
Roattino
1st violin part
19/54
My Dixie Lou
Sterling, Harry Von
Tilzer
Text
19/55
My Dixie queen
19/56
My girl
19/57
My love to Nellie
19/58
My mamma dear
19/59
My old man had a funny little walk
Piano; text
19/60
My ragtime boy
19/61
My sweet American rose
Alice W.
Melville; arranged by Samuel Perlstein
Piano; text
19/62
My sweet babee
Text
19/63
My sweet one
19/64
My sweetheart
Amy Ashmore Clark, Sam
Siebert
Piano-vocal
19/65
My sweetie
Dolph Singer, Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano; text
20/1
Nasty disposition
20/2
Nationals
Piano; lead sheet
20/3
'Neath an Indian summer moon
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano-vocal (with guitar); text
20/4
Never knew
Lead sheet
20/5
Never too late
20/6
A nice little girl is naughty
Text
20/7
No one knew just what she wanted, only
me
20/8
No[one] loves a thin man
20/9
No use asking me why
20/10
Nobody but Abie shall do it
Edward
Clark
Piano-vocal
20/11
Nobody else but you
20/12
Nobody knows what a little love
20/13
None of my business
20/14
Northern blue and gray of Dixie
Text
20/15
Not enough love, baby
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano; text
20/16
Nothin' but you
20/17
Nothing more to say
Charlotte
Parry
20/18
Nothing new
20/19
Now I know
20/20
Nurse song
20/21
O-O-O-O-O-O'Brien
Text
20/22
Off the bunk
Joe Herbert
20/23
Officer
20/24
Oh Daddy come home
20/25
Oh dear
20/26
Oh how I love you
20/27
Oh Marie
20/28
Oh, oh, Miss Lucy Ella (1907)
Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
(1907)
Piano-vocal
20/29
Oh! Such a lovin' feeling [also known as
"Head over heels in love"]
20/30
Oh what a beautiful dream
20/31
Oh what a summer
20/32
Oh what a wonderful dream
20/33
Oh what I could do
20/34
Oh, what I'd do for you
Text
20/35
Old B'way
20/36
Old jay
20/37
Old King Solomon
20/38
On the B & O
20/39
On the Champs-Elysées
Text
20/40
On the day that comes before Monday
Text
20/41
On the level
Barry
20/42
Once was enough for me
20/43
100 years ago
Harry Von Tilzer; Billy
Gould
Piano
20/44
100 years from now
Bergeron
20/45
Oola
Piano
20/46
Open gates of paradise
Piano
20/47
Open up
20/48
Open up that door and let me in
20/49
Opened my eyes
20/50
Opera
Taylor & Francis
20/51
Operatic waltz song
20/52
Opium
Piano
20/53
Orange blossom time in California
Piano; drum part
20/54
Organ begins to play
20/55
Over here and over there
Billy Curtis,
Harry Von Tilzer
Text
21/1
Pal
21/2
Parcel post
21/3
Part of it is mine
Arthur Lamb, Harry
Von Tilzer
Text
21/4
Party wire
Nordstrom &
Potter
Piano
21/5
Peek-a-boo
21/6
Pick
Mrs. Jack Sydney; B. B.
4
Mixed quartet; female quartet; lead
sheet
21/7
Pick on me
Harry Von Tilzer
21/8
Pick a nice one out for me
Jos. H.
McKeon, W. Raymond Walker, Harry M.
Piano; Text
21/9
Picture
Female quartet
21/10
Pies
Piano
21/11
A plain girl
21/12
Play
McCormick & Irving
21/13
Polly
21/14
Poor little me
21/15
Poor old moon
21/16
Potatoes
Peerless 4
Male quartet
21/17
Presents
21/18
Pretty girl
Male quartet
21/19
Pretty please
21/20
Production
21/21
Put the moon to bed
21/22
Quaker
Piano
21/23
Quaker song
21/24
Quaker town
21/25
Queen of fashion
Sam Howe
21/26
Racket song
21/27
Ragtime boat
21/28
Ragtime glider
21/29
Ragtime wagon of love
21/30
Rain
Piano
21/31
Rainbow
Jos. Morris
Male trio
21/32
Regular pal
21/33
Rib
Singer & Jay
21/34
Roaming
21/35
Rock me
21/36
The rocking chair brigade
Text
21/37
Rocking in a ragtime boat
21/38
Roll them bones
21/39
Rolling stone
21/40
Romeo
Billie Darval, Jimmie
Morgan
21/41
Rose
21/42
Rose Marie (waltz)
21/43
Rose of my heart
Ben Bernard
21/44
Rosie
21/45
Rube band
21/46
Ruby Thorne
21/47
Rug around the moon
22/1
Safety first
Vincent Bryan, Harry Von
Tilzer
22/2
Sally simple
22/3
The same as the night before
22/4
Same sweet girl
Cello part
22/5
Santa Claus
22/6
Sardinia
Sterling, Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano-vocal; piano; printed proofs;
text
22/7
Say, ain't it grand
Vincent Bryan, Harry
Von Tilzer
Piano
22/8
Says I to myself
Midgie
Miller
Piano; male quartet; text
22/9
School days
Boland &
Knight
22/10
Seadrift
Text; musical cues
22/11
See it that way
Parts (3)
22/12
Seeing Polly home
22/13
See saw
22/14
Semi-classic song
22/15
Send you a picture
Male quartet
22/16
Señorita
22/17
Shadowland
22/18
Shady side Broadway
22/19
Shake 'em up (at Lucinda's Honolulu ball)
Text
22/20
She got off
22/21
She hates me to go away
Dyson
22/22
The sheriff's going to get 'em
22/23
Shylock
22/24
Sicky sigh
22/25
Since Tilly started taking
Tastyeast
22/26
Sing
22/27
Sit down, stand up, walk around...
Arranged by Dave Kaplan
Piano; parts (2)
22/28
Sitting up with a sick friend
22/29
Sleeping
Text
22/30
Sleepy moon
Marion Chase
Lead sheet
22/31
Small world
Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer;
Sterling 3
Piano; male trio
22/32
Smoke goes up the chimney
Text
22/33
Snap your fingers
22/34
Sneeze
Geo. Mack
Piano
22/35
Snowman
Jesse Greer; Rice &
Francis
Drum part
22/36
Soldier's rosary
22/37
Some day
22/38
Some day sweet heart
22/39
Some girl
22/40
Some little girl
Dolph Singer, Harry Von
Tilzer
Text
22/41
Somebody loves you [also known as "I love you
both"]
Sabel
22/42
Somebody's waiting
Nonette
Chorus; male quartet; duet
22/43
Someone
Text
22/44
Someone I love
22/45
Someone's more lonesome than you
22/46
Something's going to happen
De
Noyer
Piano; parts; text
22/47
The song that stole...
22/48
Song to the chief
Text
22/49
The song wasn't written that way
Milt
Feiber, Jess Feiber
Piano
22/50
Sorry
John Meyers
22/51
Spank! Spank! Spank!
Harry Von
Tilzer
Texts
22/52
Spellbound
Text
22/53
Spoon with the man in the moon
22/54
Squirrel & nut
22/55
Stand up, sit down, walk around...
Weston & Leon
Piano
22/56
Standing on the corner
23/1
Stolen sweets (waltz)
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano
23/2
Stop!
Piano
23/3
Strolling along
23/4
Studio
Sam Howe
23/5
Sue dear
Harry Von Tilzer
23/6
Sullivan's chowder party
23/7
Sunday
Text
23/8
Sunny Seville
Sam Howe
23/9
Sure and it's me that knows
Text
23/10
Sweet little girl
23/11
Sweet potatoes
Piano [partial]
23/12
Sweeta-Marie
23/13
Sweeter
23/14
Sweeties
Pell & Pell;
Woodrow
Vocal quartets; violin part
23/15
'Tain't none of my business
Cecil Mack
& Chris. Smith
Piano-vocal; text
23/16
Take an aspirin
Piano; text
23/17
Take it from me
Piano
23/18
Take me along
23/19
Take me where the music is
playing
23/20
Taking care of mother
23/21
Tax on love
Quartet
23/22
Tear
League of Nations
Male quartet (with words); quintet
23/23
Tear is a smile
Sterling
Trio
23/24
Tell Mamie I said good-bye
Billy
Curtis
Text
23/25
Ten cent store
23/26
Ten-fifty nine
23/27
Tennessee medley
Piano
23/28
Thanks goodnight
23/29
That old-fashioned garden back home
Text
23/30
That what you call love [also known as
"You're too good to lose"]
23/31
That's going some
23/32
That's why Bluebeard's beard turned blue
Billy Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
Piano-vocal; text; gags for
"Bluebeard"
23/33
There isn't anyone with strings on
me
23/34
There'll be someone waiting for
you
23/35
They never come back
George
McFadden
23/36
They're after me
Piano
23/37
36 inches
Costello &
Heinzman[?]
23/38
Tina waltzes
Alberto Rizzi
Piano
23/39
To the music of the band
23/40
To the tune of a beautiful song
Text
23/41
Tokio
23/42
Tonight's the night
23/43
Top o' the mornin'
Joe
Maxwell
Chorus
23/44
Tra-la-la
23/45
Tra-la-la-la la
23/46
Trail of yesterday
K & S;
Walter
23/47
Trench fires
Piano; quartet
23/48
Twas a braw brecht moonlecht necht
Harry
Von Tilzer
Piano
23/49
Tweet, tweet
23/50
Twelve o'clock fellow
La Rue; Tom
Brown
Chorus; quartet
23/51
Twist
Kilgour
23/52
Two (2) arms
23/53
Ukalou
Piano; melody/words
23/54
Umpah
23/55
Uncle Sammy
Text
23/56
Under love's moon
Duncan
Sisters
Piano
23/57
Under the Hudson River
23/58
Under the weeping willow tree
Piano; text
23/59
Under the Yiddish moon
23/60
U.S.A.
24/1
A vagabond am I
Harry Von
Tilzer
Text
24/2
The villain
24/3
Violets
24/4
Waiting
Female quartet
24/5
Waltz
24/6
Waltzing
Text
24/7
Wasn't my fault
24/8
Wasn't that thoughtful of him
24/9
Watchful waiting
Piano
24/10
Waves rolled on
24/11
We go for a lark on the tail of a shark
Text
24/12
Wedding breakfast
24/13
Wee! wee! wee!
Text [partial]
24/14
Welcome to our city, Kitty
24/15
Well worth waiting for
Piano
24/16
What a fool I'd be
24/17
What a uniform
24/18
What are you getting from somebody
else?
24/19
What are you going to do for me
Text
24/20
What could I do
24/21
What do I care
24/22
What do you want of my young life?
Text
24/23
What you've started
Dreyer &
Fay
Text
24/24
What's goin' to be the outcome if the income
don't come in?
Piano-vocal (without words); text
24/25
When Anna practices on her "pianner"
Text
24/26
When Casey marched away
24/27
When I gave myself to you
Text
24/28
When I went to school [slumming]
24/29
When I'm with you
Piano
24/30
When the golden rod is waving...
John
Meyer
Vocal parts with words (3)
24/31
When you go to Picadilly pick a girl for me
Piano; text
24/32
When you waltz with the girl you love
Piano-vocal
24/33
Where are songs
Barry 3
24/34
Where do [you] get that stuff?
Celia
Weston
24/35
Where is she now?
24/36
Where the morning glories...
24/37
Where the rolling sea
24/38
Whether it rains, whether it shines
Text
24/39
Whistle
Kilgour
24/40
Who bribed the umpire
Harry Von
Tilzer
24/41
Who hit McAdoo?
Harry Von
Tilzer
Piano; text
24/42
Who puts me in my little bed
24/43
Whoa January
Schram &
Raymond
Quartets
24/44
Whoop de-doodle doodle do
George Totten
Smith
24/45
Who's your lady friend
24/46
Why did you
24/47
Why do they play?
24/48
Why do your kisses taste so sweet
24/49
Why must you go
Text
24/50
The widow [also known as "U. S. A."]
Piano; 1st violin part
24/51
Wilhelmina
Harry Von Tilzer
Piano
24/52
Winter-time
Meredith
Text
24/53
Wireless
Harry Von Tilzer
24/54
The wireless telephone
Vincent Bryan,
Harry Von Tilzer
1st violin parts (2); text
24/55
A wonderful night to dream
Piano; text
24/56
Won't go home till morning
Delmore
24/57
Won't someone find me a sweetheart
Melvin M. Franklin
Piano
24/58
Words & music
25/1
The Yanks did it
Van and Schenck; James
Irving
Lead sheet
25/2
Ye ne'er can tell until ye try
Piano-vocal [without words]
25/3
Yiddisha Japanese
Sam Howe
25/4
Yo San
Parts
25/5
You
25/6
You are not the same sweet girl
Text [musical fragment only]
25/7
You certainly opened my eyes [also known as
"Down where the cotton bud grows"]
25/8
You don't know what it is?
25/9
You don't know what you're missing when
you're not in love
25/10
You haven't known me long enough for that
Text
25/11
You needn't think I'm goin to do it
all
25/12
You took the sweet from sweetheart
Piano; lead sheet
25/13
You'll never miss what you've never had
Text
25/14
You're just a bad, bad baby
Dolph Singer,
Harry Von Tilzer; arranged by Anthony J. Franchim[?]
Piano-vocal (with ukelele)
25/15
You're just a part of my heart
Piano; text
25/16
You're my little theme song
25/17
You're not with your Billy tonight
Billy
K. Wells, Al Stedman
Piano; text
25/18
You're too good to lose
25/19
Openings
25/20-22
Untitled music
(3 folders)
26
Vocal Music, Printed, 1878-1940
1878-1940
Printed piano-vocal scores, with music by Harry Von Tilzer and others.
26/1
Adieu Foulard adieu Madras,
undated
Claude-François Amour
undated
26/2
All aboard for Blanket Bay, 1910
Andrew B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1910
26/3
A bird in a gilded cage, 1900,
1927
Arthur J. Lamb, Harry Von Tilzer
1900,
1927
26/4
Be my little honey bee (proofs),
1921
Andrew B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1921
26/5
Cubalita, 1941
Harry Sims, Alberto Rizzi
1941
26/6
Down on the farm, 1902, 1930
Raymonde A. Browne, Harry Von Tilzer
1902,
1930
26/7
Emmet's lullaby, 1878
J. K. Emmet
1878
26/8
The girl I left before I left...
Cover pages only
26/9
Gliding through the old stage door,
1912
William Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
1912
26/10
A hair of the dog that bit you,
1909
Vincent Bryan, Harry Von Tilzer
1909
26/11
Harry Von Tilzer's Folio no. 3 for mandolin,
guitar & piano, undated
Harry Von Tilzer
undated
26/12
Harry Von Tilzer's old time favorite hits,
1922
Harry Von Tilzer
1922
26/13
He went a-hunting, 1907
Jack Mahoney, Harry Von Tilzer
1907
26/14
The highly important fly [from
The Jolly Baron
], 1903
Arthur J. Lamb, Harry Von Tilzer
1903
26/15
I don't care if there's a girl there [also
known as "Anywhere will do" and "Won't you waltz The Merry Widow waltz with
me?"], 1908
Charles Collins, R. P. Weston
1908
26/16
I don't want any other sweetheart...
1911
Jack Gorman, Andrew Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1911
26/17
I might be coaxed, dear, but not by you,
1915
Jack Mahoney, Harry Von Tilzer
1915
26/18
I want a girl just like the girl...
1911, 1938
William Dillon, Harry Von Tilzer
1911,
1938
26/19
I wish I could hear you calling me now,
undated
Katharine Bainbridge, Harry Von Tilzer
undated
26/20
I'm homesick, 1906
Andrew B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1906
26/21
In the eternal city, 1902
Arthur J. Lamb, Harry Von Tilzer
1902
26/22
It's a hundred to one you're in love,
1916
Lou Klein, Harry Von Tilzer
1916
26/23
Just across the river on the hill,
1934
Harry Von Tilzer
1934
26/24
Just around the corner, 1925
Dolph Singer, Harry Von Tilzer
1925
26/25
Let's see, um, um, that's right,
1911
George Whiting, Andrew Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1911
26/26
Little curly hair in a high chair [from
Forty Little Mothers
], 1940
Charles Tobias, Nat Simon
1940
26/27
Little skipper, 1939
Nick Kenny, Charles Kenny
1939
26/28
Maydee [from
The Jolly Baron
], 1903
Arthur J. Lamb, Harry Von Tilzer
1903
26/29
My black Bess, 1898
Andrew B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1898
26/30
My counterfeit Bill, 1911
Andrew B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1911
26/31
Oh! Marjory! [from
The Jolly Baron
], 1903
Arthur J. Lamb, Harry Von Tilzer
1903
26/32
On a Sunday afternoon, 1902,
1929
Andrew B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1902,
1929
26/33
The pickaninny's paradise, 1918
Sam Ehrlich, Nat Osbourne
1918
26/34
The ragtime wagon of love, 1912
William Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
1912
26/35
Sitting in the dark, 1907
John Kemble, Lester Keith
1907
26/36
That old Irish mother of mine, 1920,
1925
William Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
1920,
1925
26/37
That's where I meet my girl,
1926
J. Vincent Healy, Dolph Singer, Harry Von Tilzer
1926
26/38
Wait till the sun shines, Nellie, 1905,
1932
Andrew B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1905,
1932
26/39
Waters of Venice (or Floating down the sleepy
lagoon), 1918
Neville Fleeson, Albert Von Tilzer
1918
26/40
What kind of an American are you?
1917
Lew Brown, Chas. McCarron, Albert Von Tilzer
1917
26/41
When my baby smiles at me
Cover page only
26/42
When the harvest days are over, 1900,
1927
Howard Graham, Harry Von Tilzer
1900,
1927
26/43
Where's Dooley? 1910
A. J. Mills, Bennett Scott
1910
26/44
You can't get arrested for thinking [also
known as "Somebody knows"], 1915
Andrew B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
1915
27-33
Lyric Sheets
Manuscript and typescript lyric sheets.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
27/1
Aeroplane built for two
All I has now is
an empty purse
Alphabet song
Am I in love?
And Dolly shook
her golden curls by Arthur James
Anna
Anvil chorus blues [Oh
listen to the Anvil chorus]
Anybody's girl
Applesauce
Are you
coming out tonight Mary Ann
Are you married or single by Addison
Burkhardt
Arrah go 'long with you
As long as the shamrock grows
green by William Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
At the end of lover's
lane
Automobile blues
27/2
Back in the old home town
Back in Dixie
land
Bald-headed blues by Dolph Singer
Balmy summer's
evening
The band the good old band
Barn dance
Be my little
honey bee
Beautiful but dumb
Beautiful fairy tales by Vincent
Bryan, Harry Von Tilzer
Bedtime story
Before I came back to
you
Before the war
Better times are coming
Birds sang sweetly
and life seemed complete
Bit of curiosity
Blue skies by Dave
Dreyer
Boudoir gossip
Brass band song
Breathing
heavy
27/3
Broadway isn't Broadway until the clock
strikes ten
A broken heart never forgets
Brown eyes
Bunch of
shamrocks
But she won't hang out with me by Billy Jerome, Harry Von
Tilzer
By the dawn's early light
By the sea
Cadenza
Can
you blame me for lovin' that man
Captain of the corset squad
brigade
Carolina mine
A carpet of green 'neath a ceiling of
blue
Castway
Cheep, cheep
Chickens come home to roost
Chief Hokum
Circus man
College capers
Come back to
Aaron
27/4
Contentment
Corn off the cob
Could
ya
A cowboy honeymoon by Will Heagney, Bert Reed
Cozy little flat
up town, McDonald and Walker
Cry baby
The cuckoo clock went coo
coo
The cute little bird in the tree by Billy Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
Dance of the cuckoos
Deceiving bluebird
Detective song by
Dolph Singer, Dave Dreyer
Do they know what they want? by Dolph
Singer, Dave Dreyer
Dr. Cupid
Don't bring Lulu
Don't count
your chickens
Don't go into them lion's cage tonight mother by Dolph
Singer (?)
Don't leave me now
Don't talk about home
Down at
the barnyard gate
Down at the garden gate
Down at the old minstrel
show
Down at the old swimming hole
Down on old Long Island Sound
by William Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
28/1
E-E-Ely
Eagle eye
Ever lovin'
baby
The face on the playhouse wall by Arthur Lamb
Fashion
queen
Female sultan by Dolph Singer, Dave Dreyer
French flip
flop
Gee but its sweet to cheat just a little
The girls of the
studio
Girls who have traveled
Give me a chance to be happy
Give me the right to always love you
Good old pals
Goodbye
Jakalie
Gotta get a girl like mother...
Had the devil not come to
town by Ed Moran
Hair of the dog that bit you
The handsome
man
Hannah Honolulu cabaret
Hap-hap-happiness
28/2
He did, he did, he did like Kelly did
He
kissed her near the moving picture show
Heaven's on earth
Heavy
lover
Hello Mr. Joy, goodbye Mr. Gloom
Here's Paddy from the
Emerald Isle
Hey beautiful
Hey there fella
Hi Jenny, oh Jenny
Johnson
Hindu song
High-life made a fun
Hip hip hooray for
our national wedding day by Leonard Nelson, Kathryn Bartlett
Hit the
trail
Homemade home town band [Homemade rube town band]
Honeymooning by Ballard McDonald
Honoloo
Hoosier girl
How I
love you by Dolph Singer
Humpty dumpty by Bill Murray, Ed Smalls
Hungry lips
28/3
I can't forget the girl I left behind
I
can't keep away from you
I died laughing by A. B. Sterling
I
don't blow bubbles anymore by Billy K. Wells, Harry Von Tilzer
I feel
so blue by William Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
I gotta see a man about a
dog by J. Vincent Healy
I guess you have to wait a little longer
I had a devil of a time
I just made up with my darling by Dolph Singer,
J. Fred Coote
I just received a letter from my baby
I know a
pumpkin down in Kokomo
I never felt so awkward in my life by John P.
Harrington, Jas. W. Tate
I never see Maggie alone by Harry Tilsley,
Everett Lynton
I put a nickel in the slot
I realize now I was
wrong by George A. Kershaw
I tried to make a fool out of old
Broadway
I want a boy, I want a girl [I want a girl, I want a boy]
I want a doll
I want a kitchen canary for mine
I want my rib [My
rib]
I want what I want
I will teach you how to forget [I'll teach
you how to forget]
I wish I could play pianner
I wish you'd let me
know if you see Mary
I wonder did I do wrong
I wrote a song for
you
28/4
I'd like to baby you
I'd like to be your
affinity by Vincent Bryan, Harry Von Tilzer
If by Billy Curtis
If I should give my heart to you by Arthur J. Lamb
If it had been for
you
If it wasn't for you
If my mother could only see me now
If Solomon had a million wives today by Harry D. Kerr
If they ever
take the sun out of Sunday
If you were the girl you ought to be by
Vincent Healy, Harry Von Tilzer
If you'd say yes
I'll never pick
a rose again
I'm a rolling stone by Vincent Bryan, Harry Von Tilzer
I'm a woman of very few words by Billy Curtis
I'm always gettin'
forgot
I'm for you
I'm getting sleepy
I'm going to steal your
heart [I'm gonna steal your heart]
I'm gonna to take you for a
ride
I'm just breaking my neck to get home
I'm letting no grass
grow under my feet by Eddie Clark
I'm looking for the right little
girl
I'm so foolish over Julius by Ray Goetz
I'm tellin' the
birds--tellin' the bees by Dolph Singer
In gay Paree
In Ireland
[Ireland isn't Ireland anymore] by Vincent Bryan, Harry Von Tilzer
In
London town
In spot light land
28/5
In sunny Seville
In that little Irish
home sweet home
In-di-a-na
Indiana moon
Isle of romance
It comes out in the wash
It was just like Hennessy
It's a cruel,
cruel woild
It's all wrong
It's coming soft for you
It's
never to late to love
It's the little things you do
I've been
disappointed that's all
I've got a bone to pick with you by Billy
Curtis
I've got it
I've won the family over, but I haven't won
the girl
29/1
Jakey with the hook and ladder
Jap
number
Just a little dairy for Mary and me
Just a little fun by
Melville and Higgins
Just across the river on the hill by Harry von
Tilzer
Just an-other broken heart
Just around the corner by
Lillian Morton
Just as long as your good to me
Just like a baby
by Billy Curtis
Just my luck
Just pass the buck to Gene
Just
the same old moon is shining
Just to while the hours away
Just you
and I
Kisses
29/2
The last one is the best one
Lay down
Fido, you're all wet
Let's go where they've got a piano
Let's see,
um, um, that's right
Life is sweet
Lima how have you been
Listen to the Anvil Chorus
Little Georgie (?)
Little old
Broadway
Lonesome me
Love moon
Love your ever little lovin'
baby nice
Lumbago
Made up with my darling
Magic song
Make hay hay
Make me a boy again just for tonight by Harry D. Kerr, Al
Piantadosi
The makings of the U.S.A. by Vincent Bryan, Harry Von
Tilzer
Mamie Mcintyre
Marching home with Rosie
Margie by
Harry Fox, Joseph H. McKean , Raymond Walker
29/3
Maria by Billy Curtis
Me for you
Mercenary mortals
Milk
Milo by Billy Curtis
Minstrel
show
Mister Broadway
Mr. Worry and Mr. Dreamer
Model
song
A Mormon's life is not a happy one by Vincent Bryan and Harry Von
Tilzer
Mother's blues
My bamboo lady
My daddy's growin'
old
My Egyptian maid
My fair Gitana by Arthur J. Lamb
My
heart is the harbor to hold all your love by Harry D.Kerr
My palace of
stone
My Sunday girl by Herman Ruby and Bud Cooper
My sun
My
sweetheart has no golden hair
My thoughts are far away tonight
My
twilight queen by George Totten Smith
My wife ain't coming
back
29/4
Napoleon
'Neath an Indian summer
moon
'Neath the Japanese moon
Necking time in Great Neck
No
one loves a fat man but his wife
Nonchalant
Not so good... not so
bad
Not so you could notice it
Nothing else matters anymore
Nothing like that in a town like this
Now ain't that mean
Of all
the songs
Oh for the life of a fireman
Oh grandma what big eyes
you got
Oh those eyes
On a Hoosier straw ride
On a South Sea
isle by Dolph Singer and Harry Von Tilzer
On a street that leads down
from Broadway
On a Sunday go to meetin time
On dear old Mother's
Day
On old Coney Island every night
On the day that comes before
Monday by William Jerome and Harry Von Tilzer
On the ice
On the
isle of liverwurst
On the old rustic bench
On the Rialto
On
the strict Q. T.
On to the isle of romance
Onward
Opra is too
ruff
O'Reilly's ball
Oskaloo by Billy Curtis
Our cocktail of
love by Vincent Healy and Harry Von Tilzer
Over the garden wall by
Andrew B. Sterling
30/1
P-a-i-n-t by Connie Ediss
Pajama
party
Papa's following a pretty little maid
Paradise lost
Party of the first part
Pass the buck to Gene
The place where the
girlies grow by Arthur J. Lamb
Please keep me after school
Pretty
baby come and play with me
Pretty soft for you Louise
Put your
shoulder to the wheel
Quartette of sheriffs
The ragtime wagon of
love
Robin I'll build a nest for you
The rose that blooms for
me
Rounder of Broadway
Row, row, row for lake song
Run away
little boy
Run him up and down
30/2
Save all your love and kisses for me
Say! Can he recite by Billy K. Wells, Harry Von Tilzer
The sea by
Arthur Wimperis, Walter Davidson, Harry Von Tilzer
Settle up and
settle down
Shakespeare jubilee
She says the cutest things
She's always riding around
She's chasing a crown
She's the
sweetest little sweety in the world
Sister hasn't got a chance... by
Nat Vincent, Harry Von Tilzer
So will I by Dolph Singer
Some
day, they'll come my way
Some other day
Song of the stormy deep by
Arthur J. Lamb
Spreading the news
Springtime
Stealing by
Harry S. Burnhardt
Stick around look
Stick around with me
dear
Straight
Sunbeams
Sunrise on the cross by Arthur J. Lamb
Surprise by Eddie P. Moran, Harry Von Tilzer
Sweet
stuff
30/3
'Tain't so awful Mabel
Take a little tip
from me
Take a wife
Take back the presents
Take me to your
heart again by Arthur J. Lamb
That man has something
That was the
maiden's prayer
That wonderful tune by Stanley Murphy
That's
contentment
That's just my type
That's where I love you the most
by Harry D. Kerr
That's where I met my girl
Then who'll be
sorry
There isn't anyone with strings on me [
see What are you going to do for me?](what)
There must be lots of angel dear in you
There's a picture in the
attic
They all had a finger in the pie
They always blame me
They're after us by Harry Von Tilzer, Andrew Sterling
A thing or two
I'd really like to see
Think of it
Those days are over
Those
musical eyes
Titles
To the sweetest girl I know
Tom, Ted and
Ann
Tonight's the night
Toy that was cast aside by Vincent P.
Bryan
Tramp in the woods (?)
Tropical kiss
True love goes on
forever
Try try again
Tune up Bill, you're off the key by Andrew
B. Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
Turn out the light and go to bed
'Twas a braw brecht moonlecht necht
Twenty five minutes away
Two
little snowbirds
Two little, true little, blue little eyes
Two
lonesome arms
31/1
Under a pyramid
Uncle Tom's
cabin
Venitian days
A voice from the world beyond by Arthur J.
Lamb, Harry Von Tilzer
Votes for women by Vincent Bryan
Waiting
for me (?)
Waiting for the tide to turn
Wait'll we're married
Walter James by Edward Moran
Way down in Mexico by William Jerome,
Harry Von Tilzer
We landed on Lannigan's landing
Wedding of
diamonds and tears
Welcome new day
We've got a little home in the
country
What are the air waves saying by George T. Higgins
What
are you going to do for me?
What did the wiggle bug say? by Chris Lane,
Harry Von Tilzer
What does little sweetie want
What is to be will
be, them that always has gets
What price liberty
What's gonna be
the outcome if the income don't come in
What's good enough for
Washington [or Yankee rose] by Dolph Singer
31/2
When Dolly shook her golden curls
When
eyes of blue meet eyes of green
When I get myself all alone
When I
laid my Fanny to rest
When I spin spaghetti with you
When I was in
the chorus in the Gaiety
When I'm in your arms by Dolph Singer
When its celery time in Kalamazoo
When Miss Lulu sings of Honolulu in
her darktown cabaret
When my baby smiles at me
When my Johnny boy
goes marching by Andrew Sterling, Harry Von Tilzer
When Shakespeare
was a boy
When the bugle calls to arms
When the cat is away by
Vincent Bryan, Harry Von Tilzer
When the frost is on the pumpkin
Maggie dear
When the golden rod is blooming sweet Norine
When the
harvest moon is shining by George Kershaw
When the moonlight turned to
lovelight in your eyes
When the music gets started
When you get
through with all the rest come back to me
When you hear the music in
the park by Eddie P. Moran, Harry Von Tilzer
When you're down that
way, drop in by Andrew Sterling
Where is my rainbow of love
Who
loves you? I do
Whose little dear little girlie... by Andrew Sterling,
Harry Von Tilzer
Why did Bluebeard's beard turn blue?
Why did you
do it to me babe
Why don't you marry a star... by Arthur J. Lamb
31/3
Wilhelmina
Will the girl I left behind
be true to me
With a far away look in her eyes
With a look..in her
eyes..far far away by Billy Curtis, Harry Von Tilzer
Within the gates
of our own United States
Woman suffrage by Vincent Bryan
Wrap it
up and I'll take it home
Yes Flo!
The Yiddisha wedding dance
You are so beautiful
You brought heaven to me
You can always come
back to me
You can do the same thing too
You cannot get arrested
for thinking
You can't bring her back to me
You can't judge a book
by de cover
You can't take away all your love
You can't
understand
You don't know what you're missing (if you've never had a
kiss)
You Lou you
You ought to see what Santa Claus brought
me
You say the cutest things [She does the cutest things]
You
taught me to remember by James Stanley Royce, Dolph Singer
You'll have
to read the answer... by Bryan Vincent, Harry Von Tilzer
You're a
better man than I am Mr. B'way
You're a fool if you fool with a
fool
You're a good old car
You're just a bad bad baby
You're
never too late to love by William Jerome, Harry Von Tilzer
You're the
only girl I love
You've certainly opened my eyes
32/1
Miscellany
4 writing tablets with untitled lyric
fragments
32/2-5, 33/1
Untitled lyrics
33
Instrumental Music
Manuscript full scores, piano scores, and orchestral parts.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
33/2
Chinese chopsticks
Stanley
Crawford
Piano; orchestra parts
Includes printed parts booklet, arranged by Wm.
Schulz
33/3
The Hindoo
Harry Von Tilzer, arranged by
C. M. Selling
Full score
33/4
Illinois
Full score
33/5
Kitty Rooney (Irish medley)
Arthur E.
Behim, arranged for orchestra by Ernest Bial
Full score
33/6
The mad Madrid
Harry Von Tilzer,
arranged by C. M. Selling
Full score
33/7
Narcissus rag
Arranged by Mornay D.
Helm
Piano; orchestra parts
33/8
Oriental intermezzo
Harry Von Tilzer,
arranged by Stephen O. Jones
Orchestra parts
33/9
Silver water dance
Schulz
Piano; orchestra parts
33/10
Untitled
Full score
34-45
Dramatic Music
Full scores, piano-vocal scores, orchestral parts, choral and vocal parts, and
scripts.
Arranged alphabetically by title of show.
34/1-6
The fisher maiden
Scored by Ludomir
Thomas
Full score [Act I, Act II, cover
pages]
35/1-16, 36/3-12
The fisher maiden
Orchestral parts [by number, with instruments
in score order within each number]
36/13
The fisher maiden
Excerpts (piano-vocal scores)
(manuscript)
36/14
The fisher maiden
Excerpt (Act II, no. 8, chorus vocal parts)
[printed]
37/1
The fisher maiden
Complete script in the hand of Arthur J. Lamb
(signed); London, England, May 4, 1904
37/2
The fisher maiden
Excerpts from script, typewritten, with
manuscript annotations
37/3
The fisher maiden
Script fragments, alterations, drawings of
props, etc. [manuscript]
37/4-5
The fisher maiden
Script booklets for specific roles
[typewritten]
37/6
The fisher maiden
Scene design, Act II [ink on
transparency]
38/1
Hoosier girl
Edward P. Moran and Harry
Von Tilzer
Script (complete, typewritten)
38/2-3
Hoosier girl
Music manuscripts (excerpts)
38/4
Hoosier girl
Lyrics (excerpts, typewritten)
38/5
Hoosier girl
Alphabetized notebook with lyrics, music,
etc.
38/6
Hoosier girl
Financial records, correspondence
40/1
The kissing girl [also known as "The girl
from Bohemia" or "The bridesmaid"]
Stanislaus Stange, Harry Von Tilzer,
Vincent Bryan
Full score; orchestrated by Ludomir
Thomas
39/1-23
The kissing girl
Piano-vocal score (individual numbers in
approximate order)
41-43
The kissing girl
Orchestral parts [by number, with instruments
in score order within each number]
40/2-3
The kissing girl
Printed piano-vocal scores of individual
numbers (2 folders)
40/4
The kissing girl
Printed choral parts
40/5
The kissing girl
Manuscript piano scores
40/6
The kissing girl
Manuscript vocal parts
40/7
The kissing girl
Script (complete, typewritten)
44
Mad love
Frances Nordstrom and Harry Von
Tilzer
Scripts (complete, typewritten) and Music
manuscripts (excerpts)
44
Tiddleywinks [also known as "Snowdrop and the
pirates"]
Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer
Script (complete, (signed) Arthur J. Lamb, May
15, 4:16 P.M.) and Script (complete, typewritten)
73/2
Tiddleywinks
Piano-vocal score (complete) and Piano-vocal
score (without words, partial)
44-45
Tiddleywinks
Orchestral parts (by number, with instruments
in score order within each number)
46-50
Scripts
Chiefly scripts of musicals and revues, skits and radio scripts, and miscellaneous
routines, scenes, gags, and other performances. Authors are identified if
known.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
46/1
Ann of Harlem
Tom Barry
46/2
Betty, the baby, and us
Junie McCree
46/3
Bookland, 1910
Addison Burkhardt, Edgar Allen Woolff
1910
46/4
Christine, 1924
Douglas Grant
1924
46/5
Don't make me laugh (manuscript)
Charlie
Burns
46/6
Down the joy line; A river of fun banked with
music
Junie McCree
46/7
Dumb luck; A story of chance and chances
W.
Vaughan Dunham, Dolph Singer
46/8
The elopement
Junie McCree, Edward Clark
46/9
The extra added attraction
Junie McCree,
Edward Clark
46/10
Harry Conley
46/11
[Ensemble of] Hello New York
Junie McCree
46/12
Helped by the enemy (skit)
46/13
Hogan in society
Junie McCree
46/14
Hoodlum College
46/15
Hoosier girl
Edward P. Moran, Harry Von
Tilzer
46/16
The huckster and the ham
Junie McCree
46/17
Hugh decides
46/18
Imagination scene (partial)
47/1
Insults
Dolph Singer, Harry Von Tilzer
47/2
Jimmie Cooper's revue, 1924-1925
1924-1925
47/3
The jolly baron
47/4
Just around the corner
47/5
The love of nations [Abe Reynolds' show]
Ad. Singer
47/6
Lover's lane; An episode of adolescence
Dolph Singer
47/7
Marie Eline
Dolph Singer
47/8
The matinee girls
Junie McCree
47/9
A merry whirl, 1916-1917
1916-1917
47/10
The milky way
Dolph Singer, Harry Von
Tilzer
47/11
Miss Emily Darrell, 1924-1925
Dolph Singer
1924-1925
47/12
Mr. and Mrs. (At home)
Dolph Singer,
Theodore Lesser
47/13
Mrs. Johnson's husband; A farcical romance on a
side street, paved with satire
47/14
More nonsense (2nd act only)
47/15
Mushrooms
Dolph Singer
47/16
The other brother
George Totten Smith
47/17
On the beach
47/18
On the ice
Dolph Singer, Harry Von Tilzer
48/1
Passing the time away; A lesson in
watchfulness
Dolph Singer
48/2
Performing camel
48/3-4
The rose girl
Arthur J. Lamb, Harry Von
Tilzer
48/5
Sea drift; A musical romance of the south
seas
Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Dolph Singer, Harry Von Tilzer
48/6
Shavings
48/7
So this is Paris, 1930
H. C. Greene
1930
48/8
Soldier's sweetheart
48/9
Son decides (short story)
48/10
The spicy island; A musical burletta in one
scene
Dave Lewis
48/11
Squirrels
Dolph Singer, Harry Von Tilzer
48/13
The substitute model
Junie McCree
48/12
The system
Junie McCree with Taylor
Granville
49/1
Tom foolery
Junie McCree
49/2
Trailing a smuggler
Junie McCree
49/3
The village cut-ups
49/4
Where there's a will
49/5
Window washers
Dolph Singer, Leo Donnelly
49/6
A Yankee Doodle girl, 1904-1905
Jack Singer, arranger
1904-1905
49/7
You asked for it
49/8
You know me Al
49/9-10
Untitled scripts
49/11-12
Miscellaneous routines, gags, etc.
49/13
Miscellaneous gags, notes, etc., by Dolph Singer
49/14-15
Miscellaneous scenes
49/16
Scenes for Harry Conley by Dolph Singer
Radio Scripts for the following broadcasts:
50/1
Amateur song writers' contest, written by
Dolph Singer and Joe Laurie, Jr.
50/2
The cavalcade of America. The old Fall River line
, 1946; presented by Du Pont; starring Brian Donlevy
1946;
50/3
Hits and misses
; written by Dolph Singer; featuring Harry Von Tilzer
Features "Just Around the Corner."
50/4
Indiana presents
(Station WIRE, Indianapolis; Book III: Indiana composers; Chapter
29, Harry Von Tilzer)
50/5
Voice of Firestone
, 1947, WNBC
1947,
50-52
Subject Files, 1931-1954
1931-1954
Files of H. Harold Gumm, mostly regarding black performers for whom Gumm was an
agent in the 1930s and 1940s. Also included are records from a 1942 production of
Cabin in the Sky
and papers concerning the board of directors of the Beverly Hills
Hotel.
Arranged alphabetically by subject or last name of performer, then by subject
therein.
Beverly Hills Hotel
50-52
Correspondence
50/7
Contracts (and related correspondence):
Antonio & Sally DeMarco - Luigi Albolino & Susan R.
Jarrell
50/8
Minutes of board meetings,
1946-1954
1946-1954
50/9
Financial reports
50/10
Miscellaneous
Cabin in the Sky
Production
50/11
Correspondence
50/12
Contracts between H. Harold Gumm and Albert
Lewis
50/13
Contracts between H. Harold Gumm and Isabel
M. Duncan, Al Goldin, Joe Goldin, & Jack Yorke
50/14
Financial reports
Jester Hairston
50/15
Correspondence
50/16
Script for
Chloé
50/17
Script for
Christopher Columbus
50/18
Script for
Her majesty the queen
50/19
Script for Untitled synopsis for all-Negro
musical
50/20
Program for
Run, little children
50/21
Clippings
Teddy Hale
51/1
Correspondence, memos
51/2
Scripts (fragments)
51/3
Contracts
51/4
Financial papers
51/5
Farm deed of Ted Lewis
Georgette Harvey
51/6
Correspondence
51/7
Contracts between Georgette Harvey and Merle
Armitage Concerts, Inc.
51/8
Contracts between Georgette Harvey and Roy
Ellison
51/9
Contracts between Georgette Harvey and H.
Harold Gumm
51/10
Contracts between Georgette Harvey and Lou
Irwin, Inc.
51/11
Contracts between Georgette Harvey and
Guthrie McClintic
51/12
Contracts between Georgette Harvey and
NBC
51/13
Contracts between Georgette Harvey and
Theatre Guild, Inc.
51/14
Contracts between Georgette Harvey and
Richard Wheaton
51/15
Real estate transactions
51/16
Will
51/17
Clippings
51/18
Miscellanous
Mann Holiner
51/19
Correspondence (including drafted agreements,
etc.)
Rex Ingram
52/1-2
Correspondence
52/3
Correspondence, financial papers regarding
Emperor Jones
52/4
Emperor Jones
script (partial)
52/5
Contracts between Rex Ingram and Columbia
Artists, Inc.
52/6
Contracts between Rex Ingram and Goldie &
Gumm
52/7
Contracts between Rex Ingram and Anna Lucasta
Co.
52/8
Litigation: Martha Salzberg vs. Rex Ingram
52/9
Litigation: Ida Mae Hubbard vs. Rex
Ingram
52/10
Litigation: Muriel Rahn complaint to Actors'
Equity Association
52/11
Financial papers: Columbia Artists,
Inc.
52/12
Financial papers:Goldie & Gumm
52/13
Clippings
Duke McHale
52/14-16
Correspondence
52/17
Memoranda
52/18
Contract with William Liebling
52/19
Script (fragment)
52/20
Clippings
53-63
Legal Papers, 1899-1957
1899-1957
Arranged first by individual, corporate entity, or estate, then by subject
therein.
53
Harry Von Tilzer, 1899-1946
1899-1946
Contracts, litigation, death certificate, and last will and testament.
53/1
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and George
Broadhurst
53/2
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and
Broadway Music Corp.
53/3
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and
William C. Dunn & Co. Music Publishers (for "The coldest coon in town"
and "She's a perfect little lady")
53/4
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and B.
Feldman & Co.
53/5
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and T. B.
Harms & Co.
53/6
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and Remick
Music Corp.
53/7
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and
Abraham Schomer
53/8
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
53/9
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and
Shapiro Von Tilzer Music Co.
53/10
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and
Southern Music Publishing, Inc. (for "Just across the river on the hill" and
"When the goldenrod is waving, Annie dear)
53/11
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and Joseph
W. Stern & Co. (for "Win I lose")
53/12
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and Jules
Von Tilzer and Will U. Gumm
53/13
Contracts between Harry Von Tilzer and
Charles B. Ward Music Publishing Co.
53/14
Litigation: Harry Von Tilzer vs Irwin Abrams
(Victor Irwin)
53/15
Litigation: Ludwig Baumann & Co. vs Harry
Von Tilzer
53/16
Death certificate
53/17
Drafts of Last will and testament
53/18
Last will and testament: documents regarding
probate
53-54
Estate of Harry Von Tilzer,
1927-1957
1927-1957
Settlement documents, including agreements regarding Aimee V. Samuels
(stepdaughter) claim.
53/19
Application to determine the estate
tax
53/20
Appraisal of the estate
53/21
Final judicial settlement of H. Harold Gumm
as executor
53/22
Objections of Estelle Von Tilzer
53/23
Proving the last will and testament of Harry
Von Tilzer
53/24
Release and discharge of executor
54/1
Aimee V. Samuels [stepdaughter of Harry Von
Tilzer]: Agreements regarding claim on Harry Von Tilzer estate
54/2
Aimee V. Samuels [stepdaughter of Harry Von
Tilzer]: Correspondence regarding claim on Harry Von Tilzer
estate
54/3
Jack and Isabel Von Tilzer: Adoption
papers
54/4
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Cohan, George M. [used for
comparison]
54/5
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Gershwin, George [used for
comparison]
54/6
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Goldie, William
V.--Correspondence
54/7
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Goldie, William V.--Death
certificate, marriage license, will, etc.
54/8
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Goldie, William V.--Federal tax
returns, 1949-1953
54/9
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Von Tilzer, Albert
54/10
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Von Tilzer, Ida
54/11
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Von Tilzer, Isabel
54/12
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Von Tilzer, Will
54/13
Papers regarding other estates pertaining to
settlement of Harry Von Tilzer estate: Young, Joseph [used for
comparison]
55-63
Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co. (HVTMPC),
1903-1956
1903-1956
Organizational documents, song and show contracts, miscellaneous contracts, and
litigation files57/.
55/1
By-laws
55/2
Minutes of board of directors
55/3
Certificate of incorporation
55/4
Memos regarding incorporation and other
topics
55/5
Reinstatement of incorporation
55/6
Certificate of corporate banking
55/7
Lease and other items
Contracts: Songs
Arranged alphabetically by title.
55/8
Annette; Addison Burkhardt/Arthur Behim,
1912
1912
55/9
Are you half the man; James
Amoroso/unknown, 1916
1916
55/10
Baby doll [also known as "Angel child"];
Harry Armstrong/William Clark, 1910
1910
55/11
Baby, save your kisses for me; Fred
Strasser/Frank Tinney, 1911
1911
55/12
Baltimore ("Baldy Moore"); Andy Rice,
1907
1907
55/13
Big Chief Dynamite; Al Piantadosi,
undated
undated
55/14
Buzzy bee; Billy Borden/Joe Denny,
1911
1911
55/15
Celia; Walter Smart/Harry Wellman,
1903
1903
55/16
Chloe; Eddie Leonard/J. C. Levan,
1921
1921
55/17
Cindy, you're my dream; J. B. Mullen,
1903
1903
55/18
Contentment; Billy Curtis/Harry Von
Tilzer, 1932
1932
55/19
Cotton pickin' time in Alabama; Arthur J.
Daly/Harold L. Cool, 1917
1917
55/20
Country days; Albert Weiler,
1921
1921
55/21
Creole jazz; Karyl Norman,
1922
1922
55/22
Dearest days; Harry Truax,
1911
1911
55/23
Does anybody want my fido; Garfield
Kilgour/Harry Von Tilzer, 1918
1918
55/24
Don't say good-bye; Dannie O'Neil,
1921
1921
55/25
Dreaming of love; Harry Truax,
1911
1911
55/26
Duty calls; Dr. M. Hall/C. A. Egener,
1918
1918
55/27
The easiest way; Arthur Behim,
1909
1909
55/28
East is east, west is west; Jack
Yellen/Milton Ager, 1922
1922
55/29
Everything's been done before; Eddie
Leonard, 1911
1911
55/30
The garden of lies; A. K. Allison/Harry
Von Tilzer, 1914
1914
55/31
Georgia was so different from the rest;
William Davis/unknown, 1912
1912
55/32
Giddy-ap, Pocahontas, good-bye; Richard
Howard/Harry Von Tilzer, 1918
1918
55/33
The girl I left before I left; Jack
Mahoney, 1908
1908
55/34
Golden eyes; Don V. Harwood/Alice Lawlor,
1913
1913
55/35
Grandma's Sunday dinner; Edward
Maddan/Alfred J. Doyle, 1910
1910
55/36
The goose step; Earl Benham/unknown,
1921
1921
55/37
He was a hero in the army; Sam
Landers/Phil Baker, 1919
1919
55/38
Here I am; Annie Kent, 1914
1914
55/39
Honeymoon; R. C. McPherson/Chris Smith,
1902
1902
55/40
Hula girl (instrumental); James Europe,
1910
1910
55/41
I don't count for nuffin' anymore; Marie
Tyler (author of title), 1912
1912
55/42
I just can't make my heart behave;
unknown/Harry Von Tilzer [unsigned], [undated]
[undated]
55/43
I just made up with my darling; Dolph
Singer/J. Fred Coots, 1926
1926
55/44
I never knew that a girl like you; Paul
Cunningham/Alfred J. Doyle, 1914
1914
55/45
I should worry; L. Wolfe Gilbert,
1911
1911
55/46
I want everyone to love me; unknown/Arthur
E. Behim, 1911
1911
55/47
I want someone to chase the blues away;
unknown/Murray Bloom, 1915
1915
55/48
I wish I was King Solomon; Will J. Harris,
1915
1915
55/49
I wish I were you; Ballard MacDonald/Harry
M. Piano, 1911
1911
55/50
I'd like to know you better; Francis De
Witt/Aubrey Stauffer, 1909
1909
55/51
If a girl wants a boy and a boy; Checkers
Von Hampton/Henry Cohen, 1909
1909
55/52
If love were a yard long; Bartlett
Costello/John Heinzman, 1910
1910
55/53
If you don't vant her, I vant her; Lew
Brown/unknown, 1911
1911
55/54
I'll get you; Hal Dyson, 1922
1922
55/55
I'll put the blame on Mr. Rubinstein;
Eugene Platzman, 1910
1910
55/56
I'm going to leave this town; Andrew B.
Sterling/Elmer Bowman, 1911
1911
55/57
In de evenin'; Alex Rogers/Will Marion
Cook, 1910
1910
55/58
In my garden of golden dreams; W. E.
Browning/Alfred J. Doyle, 1910
1910
55/59
In my little Honolulu cabaret; Louis
Harrison/Harry Von Tilzer, 1917
1917
55/60
It's going to be tough on the old men; B.
Russell, A.B. Sterling/George Bennett, 1918
1918
55/61
It's got to be someone I love; Will
Dillon/Alfred J. Doyle, 1910
1910
55/62
I've won the family over; Felix Adler,
1911
1911
55/63
Jakey with the hook and ladder; Al
Piantadosi, [undated]
[undated]
55/64
Just as if I didn't know; Billy Curtis,
1919
1919
55/65
Just like Hennessy; Alexander
Groves/unknown, 1910
1910
55/66
Just like taking candy from a baby; Will
J. Hart/Ed Nelson, 1917
1917
55/67
Kiss for shame; Albert H. Fitz,
1904
1904
55/68
Kitty Rooney; Andrew B. Sterling/Arthur E.
Behim, 1910
1910
56/1
Land o' love; Walter Stanton,
1919
1919
56/2
Laugh with me; Albert Weiler,
1920
1920
56/3
Laughing song; Billy Curtis/unknown,
1920
1920
56/4
Let's see, um, um, that's right; George
Whiting, 1908
1908
56/5
Life; Fay Tishman/Marjorie Goetschius,
1956
1956
56/6
Lize, those great big beautiful eyes;
Eddie Leonard, 1911
1911
56/7
Lost, a girl; Leon Bennett/unknown,
1911
1911
56/8
L-O-V-E spells love; Rosetta and Vivian
Duncan, 1921
1921
56/9
Loving eyes; Harry Puck, Alfred Bryan,
George Meyer, 1908
1908
56/10
Ma belle rose; Arthur E. Behim,
1910
1910
56/11
M'cool; Jim Ward/Bob Willis,
1914
1914
56/12
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis; Andrew B.
Sterling/unknown, [1904]
[1904]
56/13
Miserary; Woods, Frazer and Lederer,
1910
1910
56/14
Moonlight in Vermont; John Blackburn/Karl
Suessdorf, 1944
1944
56/15
More; Arthur E. Behim, 1910
1910
56/16
Mother's blues; Murray Roth/unknown,
1921
1921
56/17
My Dixie dream; Earl Taylor,
1910
1910
56/18
My little curly head girl; Lew Farris/Emil
Valezco, Herbert Straub, 1927
56/19
My little dreamland Rose; C. M.
Dennison/Anna Bumaer Berg, 1911
1911
56/20
My Madeline; Louis Dacre,
1903
1903
56/21
My sweet American rose; Alice Melville/Tom
Edwards, 1917
1917
56/22
The naughty Lucie bump; Edward Madden,
1910
1910
56/23
The nervous knee; Garfield Kilgour/Walter
Scanlan, 1918
1918
56/24
Not so good, not so bad; Murray
Roth/Unknown, 1921
1921
56/25
Now's the time; Edward Grossmith/Ted D.
Ward, 1916
1916
56/26
Oh, Daddy come home; Tom Helmick/Vincent
Rose, 1915
1915
56/27
Oh! What I know about you; W. Raymond
Walker [copyright], 1909
1909
56/28
On Ragtime Bay; Bernard Grossman/Fred
Watson, 1913
1913
56/29
On that Mississippi shore; Billy
Curtis/Harry Von Tilzer, 1919
1919
56/30
On the way to Oskaloo; Billy
Curtis/Unknown, 1920
1920
56/31
Princeton cheer song; Charles W. Orth/W.D.
Biekhan, 1911
1911
56/32
Roly boly eyes; Eddie Leonard,
1919
1919
56/33
The rose of my dreams; Ben Barnett/Marie
Scanlon, 1913
1913
56/34
Rose of my heart; Ben Bernard,
1920
1920
56/35
Sardinia; Andrew B. Sterling/unknown,
1921
1921
56/36
She says the cutest things; Dolph Singer,
Paul Ash, Dave Dreyer, 1926
1926
56/37
Sister hasn't got a chance since Mother;
unknown/Harry Von Tilzer [unsigned], [undated]
[undated]
56/38
Smile; Fred Ziemer/Dewitt Bell,
1909
1909
56/39
Some day little girl; Lew Brown/W. Raymond
Walker, 1911
1911
56/40
Somebody; Jeff T. Branen/Joe Hollander,
1911
1911
56/41
Someone cares; Frank Davis/George J.
Bennett, 1920
1920
56/42
Star kiss; Jack McGarr/Murray Bloom, Jesse
Greer, 1920
1920
56/43
Telephone your Rivky, Izzie; Addison
Burkhardt/Lillian Shaw, 1910
1910
56/44
That woodland cabaret; Art M.
Swanstrom/Leo Bennett, 1913
1913
56/45
That's where I meet my girl; J. Vincent
Healy, Dolph Singer/Harry Von Tilzer, 1926
1926
56/46
Tina waltzes; unknown/Alberto Rizzi,
1915
1915
56/47
Two little true little blue little eyes;
Dave Dreyer, Dolph Singer, Jimmy Steiger, 1927
1927
56/48
Underneath the chestnut tree; Alfred
Bryan, 1904
1904
56/49
Wandering one; Harry Mayo/Harry Von
Tilzer, 1924
1924
56/50
We are never too old to love; William
Cahalin, Philip Moore/Harold C. O'Hare, 1916
1916
56/51
When I look in the mirror; Dan
Sullivan/Harry Von Tilzer, 1919
1919
56/52
When I send you a picture of Berlin; Dave
Dreyer, Ben Ryan, Frank Fay, 1918
1918
56/53
When I'm with you; unknown/Bill Munro,
1920
1920
56/54
When my baby smiles at me; Andrew B.
Sterling, Ted Lewis/Bill Munro, 1938
1938
56/55
When Rosa Rosano sings matse soprano;
Edward Clark [unsigned], [undated]
[undated]
56/56
When you're painting my Irish home; Frank
Terry, 1916
1916
56/57
Whether it rains, whether it shines; Dolph
Singer/Harry Von Tilzer [MPPA title registration], 1927
1927
56/58
Whistle a tune; unknown/Harry Von Tilzer
[unsigned], [undated]
[undated]
56/59
Whistling charms; unknown/Alberto Rizzi,
1915
1915
56/60
With a far away look in her eye; Garfield
Kilgour/Harry Von Tilzer, 1916
1916
56/61
Won't you change your name to Reilly;
Herbert W. Smith/unknown, 1910
1910
56/62
Won't you say yes today; Mark E. Beam,
1911
1911
56/63
The Yiddisha wedding dance; Arthur
Fields/Harry Carroll, 1911
1911
56/64
You are my life, my all; Alfred J. Doyle,
1907
1907
56/65
You can't eat peas with a knife; Harry Von
Tilzer [MPPA title registration], 1927
1927
56/66
You can't take away what you gave; Arthur
Terker, 1919
1919
56/67
You certainly have opened my eyes; Harry
David Kerr/Harry Von Tilzer, 1914
1914
56/68
You're not with Billy tonight; Billy K.
Wells/Al Steadman, 1913
1913
56/69
Zuleika; Andrew B. Sterling,
1903
1903
56/70
Empty contract envelopes
Contracts: Shows
57/1
Heigh-Ho
[previously called
Insults
]; Leo Donnelly and Dolph Singer/Harry Von Tilzer
Contains contract with Leo Feist (1929),
copyright renewals (1956), and relevant correspondence (1956).
57/2
Hoosier Girl
; Edward P. Moran/Harry Von Tilzer
Contains an agreement between Moran, the
Harry Von Tilzer estate, and HVTMPC (1947).
57/3
Mad Love
; Frances Nordstrom/Harry Von Tilzer
Agreements between Nordstrom and Harry Von
Tilzer (1919, 1920)
Agreement between producer Lew Fields, HVTMPC,
and Harry Von Tilzer (1920)
Agreement between Fields, Nordstrom, and
Harry Von Tilzer (1920)
Agreement between Nordstrom and HVTMPC
(1920)
Receipt from Edward Madden for payment for revision
57/4
To-Day
[previously called
Style
]
Agreement between Abraham S. Schomer and Max
R. Wilner (1913)
Assignment of proxy by Max R. Wilner to Harry M.
Wilner in Drama Producing Corporation
Certificate of Incorporation of
the Manuscript Producing Corporation
Agreement between George
Broadhurst, Harry Von Tilzer, and Max R. Wilner as stockholders of the
Manuscript Producing Company, and the same three as
Trustees
Agreement between Max R. Wilner, Harry Von Tilzer, George
Broadhurst, Harold Gumm, and the Manuscript Producing
Company
Agreement between George H. Broadhurst and Abraham S. Schomer
and The Macaulay Company (publisher)
57/5
You Know Me Al
; Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Stannard Mears, W. Anson Hallihan/Harry
Von Tilzer
Agreement between Joseph Andre Tressi
(manager) and Hugh Stanislaus Stange, Stannard Mears, W. Andon Hallihan
(authors) and Harry Von Tilzer (composer)
Contracts: Other
57/6
American Federation of
Musicians
57/7
ASCAP
57/8
Bornstein, Ben
57/9
Candy Music Publishing Co.
57/10
Cohen, Meyer
57/11
Herman Darewski Music Publishing Co.,
Ltd.
57/12
Decca Records, Inc.
57/13
Dyson, Hal R. and William K.
Wells
57/14
Fero, James
57/15
Fitzgerald, Dallas M.
57/16
Hill, Gus et al
57/17
Music Autographers' Union
57/18
O'Day, James
57/19
Paramount Famous Lasky
Corporation
57/20
Preston, E. D. and Arthur
Wimperis
57/21
Smith, Samuel
57/22
Smitman, Ralph
57/23
Sterling, Andrew B.
57/24
Jerry Vogel Music Co., Inc.
57/25
Von Tilzer, Albert and Harry, and Jack
Louis Gumm
57/26
Von Tilzer, Harry and Will
Contracts between the following:
57/27
Broadway Music Corp. - Simon &
Schuster
57/28
Feist, Leo - Walter Donaldson
57/29
Feist, Leo - Harry Von Tilzer
57/30
Mills, F. A. - William S. Estrell[?] &
Budd Minor[?]
57/31
Singer, Dolph - Various vaudeville
artists
57/32
Von Tilzer, Albert - Stasny Music
Corp.
Other legal documents
57/33
Certificate of incorporation for Vontil
Corporation (1913)
(1913)
57/34
Correspondence regarding Certificate of
incorporation for Shapiro, Bernstein & Von Tilzer
57/35
Miscellaneous forms
Litigation: HVTMPC vs. the
following:
58/1
Columbia Recording Corporation
correspondence, 1927, 1943-1944
1927,
1943-1944
58/2
Columbia Recording Corporation releases,
1943-1944
1943-1944
58/3
Leo Feist, Inc., et al, Affidavit, Order
to show just cause, etc.
58/4
Leo Feist, Inc., et al, Complaint,
depositions, etc.
58/5
Leo Feist, Inc., et al, Arthur J. Lamb
& M. Witmark & Sons
58/6
Loew's, Inc., et al, Correspondence,
music, clippings
58/7
Loew's, Inc., et al, Interrogatories,
final release, etc.
Jerry Vogel Music Co., et al
59/1-12
General correspondence,
1937-1955, undated
1937-1955,
undated
59/13-15
Correspondence between HVTMPC and
Goldie & Gumm, 1939-1955, undated
1939-1955,
undated
59/16
Correspondence with Harry Fox regarding
royalties and synchronization rights of disputed songs,
1941-1947
1941-1947
59/17
Correspondence with Sol Leibner of
Leibner & Chaikin, Accountants, 1947-1952
1947-1952
59/18
Correspondence regarding Pauline B.
Story, 1938
1938
Trial documents
Arranged alphabetically by type of document.
60/1
Account of plaintiff
60/2
Appeal
60/3
Audit of Jerry Vogel Music Co. by
HVTMPC, June 1947
June
1947
60/4
Briefs from defendant
60/5
Briefs from
defendant-appellant
60/6
Briefs from plaintiffs
60/7
Briefs from
plaintiffs-appellees
60/8
Copyright and royalty information on
disputed songs
60/9
Depositions of Brandenburg,
Minnie
60/10
Depositions of Dillon, William
A.
60/11
Depositions of Dody,
Daniel
60/12
Depositions of Freidberg,
Sidney
60/13
Depositions of Nizer,
Louis
60/14
Depositions of Rosenbloom, Milton
M.
60/15
Depositions of Ryan, Ben
60/16
Depositions of Tafuri, Jennie A.
Browne
60/17
Depositions of Vogel,
Jerry
60/18
Depositions of Von Tilzer, Harry
[summary]
60/19
Examinations before trial: Sterling,
Andrew B.
Jerry Vogel Music Co., by Jerry Vogel
61/1
Examinations before trial: March
1941
61/2
Examinations before trial: April
1941
61/3
Examinations before trial: May 1941
61/4
Examinations before trial: June 1941
61/5
Examinations before trial: Von
Tilzer, Harry
61/6
Findings of fact and conclusions of
law
61/7-8
Hearing transcript,
1951
1951
61/9
Interlocutory decree
61/10
Judgment
61/11
Judgment of appeal
62/1
Memoranda from defendant
62/2-4
Memoranda from plaintiff
62/20-21
Miscellany
62/5
Notice of settlement
62/6
Notice to produce
62/7
Opinion
62/8
Order to show cause
62/9
Plaintiff reply to
counterclaims
62/10
Pleadings
62/11
Report of special master
62/12
Statements from Von Tilzer,
Jules
62/13
Statements from Von Tilzer,
Will
62/14
Stenographers' fees
62/15
Stipulation
62/16-18
Summons and complaint (3
drafts)
62/19
Tender of proof
63/1
Litigation: William A. Dillon vs Harry Von
Tilzer Music Publishing Corp.
63/2
Litigation between Broadway Music Corp. vs
Jerry Vogel Music Co. and Jack Norworth
63/3
Litigation between Broadway Music Corp. vs
Jerry Vogel Music Co. and Adella & Harold Singer
63/4
Litigation between Rose Druckerman et al vs
James G. Harbord et al
63/5
Litigation between Charles K. Harris vs Ted
Snyder Co. et al
63/6
Litigation between Edward B. Marks Music
Corp. vs Jerry Vogel Music Co.
63/7
Litigation between Selwyn & Co., Inc., vs
Bayard Veiller
63/8
Litigation between Shapiro, Bernstein &
Co. vs P. F. Collier & Son Co. & Joseph P. McEvoy
63/9
Litigation between M. Witmark & Sons vs
Fred Fisher Music Co. et al
63
H. Harold Gumm, 1903-1951
1903-1951
Certificates to practice law, contracts, deed to Los Angeles property, and
wills prepared for various clients.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
63/10
Certificates to practice law
63/11
Contracts between H. Harold Gumm and Sig
Herzig
63/12
Contracts between H. Harold Gumm and Frank
Lewis
63/13
Contracts between H. Harold Gumm and Leo
Morrison
63/14
Contracts between H. Harold Gumm and Will and
Jules Von Tilzer
63/15
Contract between Gertrude S. Gumm (Mrs. H.
Harold) and Eugene Berton
63/16
Deed (Los Angeles property),
1948
1948
63/17
Will prepared for Samuel (Sammy Lee)
Levy
63/18
Will prepared for Antonio L.
DeMarco
63/19
Will prepared for Mann Holiner
63/20
Will prepared for Catherine Roth
63/21
Will prepared for Lester A.
Santly
63/22
Will prepared for Lillian Roth Scott (Lillian
Roth)
63/23
Will prepared for Esther Solomon (Esther
Santly)
64-69, 73, 75-76
Financial Papers, 1899-1957
1899-1957
Royalty statements, business and personal financial records, insurance documents,
and tax records.
Arranged first by individual, corporate entity, or estate, then by subject
therein.
Harry Von Tilzer
64/1-2
Check stubs, 1931-1938;
1939-1945
1931-1938;
1939-1945
64/3
Receipts
64/4
Record of deposits and withdrawals,
1944
1944
64/5
Royalty statements for Feist &
Frankenthaler
75/1-2
Royalty statements M. Witmark &
Sons
64/6
Taxes, 1928, 1940-1945
1928,
1940-1945
Estate of Harry Von Tilzer
64/7
Memos, summaries, etc.
64/8
Royalty statements for Bourne,
Inc.
64/9
Royalty statements for Broadway Music
Corp.
64/10
Royalty statements for Shapiro, Bernstein
& Co.
64/11
Estate taxes
64/12
Income taxes (New York and U.S.),
1946-1951
1946-1951
64/13
Social security taxes
65/1
Freeport House, L. I.--Insurance
65/2
Freeport House, L. I.--Inventory
65/3
Freeport House, L. I.--Maintenance,
1944-1956
1944-1956
65/4
Freeport House, L. I.--Mortgages,
1908-1930
1908-1930
65/5
Freeport House, L. I.--Paid bills,
1946-1957
1946-1957
65/6
Freeport House, L. I.--Taxes,
1930-1956
1930-1956
65/7
Freeport House, L. I.--Title and title
search, appraisal
Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing
Company
66/1
ASCAP royalty distributions - Accounts,
1952-1957
1952-1957
66/2
ASCAP royalty distributions - Statements,
1934-1950
1934-1950
66/3
ASCAP writer-performance record,
1949-1956
1949-1956
66/4
Bankruptcy proceedings: Correspondence and
notes
66/5-6
Bankruptcy proceedings: Documents
66/7
Financial reports, 1923-1924
1923-1924
66/8
General ledger balance book,
1923-1924
1923-1924
66/9
Insurance, 1944-1949
1944-1949
66/10
Inventory of safe, 1946
1946
66/11
Ledger of mechanical releases,
1918-1922
1918-1922
66/12
List of broadcast uses (by song),
1943-1946
1943-1946
66/13
List of synchronization uses,
1938-1951
1938-1951
73/3
Mechanical royalties ledger,
1924-1928
1924-1928
66/14
Printing order book, 1935-1943
1935-1943
75-76
Order book (carbon); entries include name and
address, quantity and title ordered, and date, 1922-1924
1922-1924
67/1-4
Federal and state income taxes,
1918-1951
1918-1951
67/5
Employer's tax returns,
1937-1942
1937-1942
Jules Von Tilzer
67/6
Paid bills
67/7
Social security, 1950-1951
1950-1951
67/8
Federal and state taxes (incomplete),
1948-1954
1948-1954
H. Harold Gumm
67/9
Bank statements, 1941-1944
1941-1944
67/10
Deposit receipts and cancelled checks,
1941-1944
1941-1944
67/11-12
Insurance: Correspondence, bills,
etc.
67/13
Insurance: Policies (health, auto,
etc.)
68/1
Investments: Broker statements,
correspondence, 1936-1940
1936-1940
68/2-6
Paid bills (correspondence, receipts),
1926-1957, undated
1926-1957,
undated
68/7
Record of deposits and withdrawals,
1941-1942, 1945
1941-1942,
1945
68/8
Record of expenditures regarding producing
activities, 1942
1942
68/9
Savings books and check registers,
1912, 1921, 1935-1936
1912, 1921,
1935-1936
68/10
Taxes, 1942, 1946
1942,
1946
Goldie & Gumm
69/1
Accounts payable and receivable
69/2
Inventory of furniture
69/3-4
Paid bills, 1949-1952
1949-1952
69/5-7
Taxes, 1946-1953
1946-1953
69, 73
Catalog of the Harry Von Tilzer Music
Publishing Co.
Catalogs, lists of works, copyright information, and other materials.
69/6
HVTMPC printed catalogs, some annotated with
copyright information
69/7
Status of HVTMPC catalog as of July
1957
69/8
Lists of Harry Von Tilzer works published by
HVTMPC
69/9
List of Harry Von Tilzer works published by
others
69/10
Songs published by HVTMPC - ASCAP
list
69/11
Songs published by HVTMPC - Revision of ASCAP
list
69/12
Copyright information for HVTMPC
catalog
69/13
Copyright renewal applications
69/14
Miscellany
69
Programs, 1894-1940
1894-1940
Printed programs and newsprint announcements, chiefly about Harry Von Tilzer
performances or compositions.
69/15
1894-1906
69/16
1909-1929, 1940, undated
70, 74
1
Photographs
Portraits and casual photos of Harry Von Tilzer and family members. Also includes
miscellaneous photos of other performers.
1
ASCAP annual meeting and dinner, 1927, 1930
1927, 1930
70/1, 74/1-7, 74/9
Harry Von Tilzer, alone
70/2, 74/10
Harry Von Tilzer, with others
70/3, 74/8
Others, including family members
70/4-5
Male performers (identified and
unidentified)
70/6-7
Female performers (identified and
unidentified)
70/8-9
Groups of performers (identified and
unidentified)
70/10
Child performers
71-72
Clippings, 1900-1959
1900-1959
Arranged by subject or decade.
71/1
Harry Von Tilzer
Writings, biographical materials, and
obituaries
71/2
Obituary notices for William V.
Goldie
71/3
Notices regarding Dolph Singer
71/4
Articles on estate settlements
71/5
1900-1909
71/6-7
1920-1929
71/8-10
1930-1939
72/1-3
1940-1949
72/4-5
1950-1959
The following complete issues were also included,
but had crumbled beyond legibility: The Billboard
(Special souvenir issue, 1894-1950; Sept. 2, 1957)
New York Daily News (April 16, 1948)
Variety (July 31, 1957; Oct. 9, 1957; Oct. 23,
1957; TV film commercials produced since Jan. 1, 1957).
70, 73
Miscellany
Artwork, publicity materials, and publications.
Artwork
73/4
Cartoons: "Birth of a Song" by Paul Carruth
and Joseph R. Fliesler (signed) and "Seems Like Yesterday" by C.
Kessler
73/4
Clipping: The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 30,
1939, illustrating "She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage" with slides from an
early nickelodeon accompaniment of the song
73/5
Placemats: "Claytoon" illustrations of Harry
Von Tilzer songs from a series entitled "The Gay Nineties" by the Sass-Dorne
Studios of Hollywood, California
Publicity - HVTMPC
70/11
"A Tribute to Harry Von Tilzer"
Printed flyer
70/12
List of on-air plugs, 1936-1939
1936-1939
70/13
Notes for "The Silver Anniversary of the
Silver Haired Composer Harry Von Tilzer"
Manuscript
Publications
70/14
Pamphlets, booklets, flyers, etc.
70/15
Spaeth, Sigmund.
Read 'Em and Weep: The Songs You Forgot to Remember.
New York/Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927.
70/16
Proposal for "The International Ice
Frolics"
Typescript
70/17
Miscellany