Sheet Music Covers

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Sheet Music Covers

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Here is a cover I like. Great title, too! :) This is one of the songs featured in the Ingenues All Girl Band Vitaphone short. They play it at a very fast tempo, which I think kind of suits it. Apparently this was very popular in the late 20's.
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Fantastic idea for a thread! My dad had hundreds of sheet music in his shop. I always liked this cover. So very pretty in full color!
I have still never heard this song. I was just fascinated by the pretty color.
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That's some fabulous artwork. You're right, the color palette is amazing, and also the artist's variety of brushstrokes, and how there is that glowing cast light in the shadow.

Did you notice the little star appliqué (or whatever you call those)? Those must have been popular in the 20's. I remember that Bebe Daniels wears one in Why Change Your Wife? with Thomas Meighan and Gloria Swanson (great film, if you haven't seen it).

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I didn't really think of it being a star! Yes, kind of odd. I've seen movies where that Are dressing up and put a dot on their cheek with makeup.
I feel like I've posted these covers in another thread, but I'm posting it here, too. Dad had a framed copy of this in the doorway at the shop. I'm pretty sure this is the one. Yes! We Have No Bananas.
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:D How did your father come to have all that sheet music?

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donnie wrote:
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:D How did your father come to have all that sheet music?
Not really sure. He sold it in his store.
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donnie wrote:
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Did you notice the little star appliqué (or whatever you call those)? Those must have been popular in the 20's.
Their popularity seems to have lasted all the way to 1929! There's a bunch of glamor shots of Clara Bow from that year, even into 1930, with those appliques in just about every possible shape: a star, a heart, a crescent moon, a simple dot, etc.
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So I was watching an old Carson from the 60s last night, and he had gone into the audience, asking them to stump Skitch Henderson and his band by requesting songs that they might not know. One older lady stood up and asked for a song called "Did You?" They didn't recognize the name, so she sang a few bars of the song (so sweetly!!), and this was the song! Unfortunately, I cannot find an audio of the song online.
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Here's a crossover sheet music/silent film photo.
I've Lost You So Why Should I Care? With Theda on the cover!
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I've lately taken up the ukulele (and having such fun with it! :D ). I have a Patreon membership with a creator who does a lot of good arrangements of classical guitar repertoire for uke. And he recently posted the music of an old-fashioned Hawaiian waltz from the Kamiki Ukulele Method, published in 1916 during the first uke boom in the late teens. I thought that was pretty cool. :) I have the sheet music downloaded, but haven't learned it yet.
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