Historic Sheet Music Collection
The Historic Sheet Music Collection (HSMC) consists primarily of popular music of the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Although most of the music is composed or arranged for voice with piano accompaniment, some pieces incorporate other instruments such as guitar, and some are for instrumental solo (primarily piano or guitar). A few classical works are also included in the collection.
Sheet music can offer an interesting interdisciplinary research opportunity. The lyrics, cover art, and advertisements open a window on the society and culture of the time. Subjects range from popular love songs to laments to humorous ditties - and everything else in between. Many songs reflect on the U.S. Civil War, World War I, and World War II. There is even a song about Wheaties in the collection.
Submissions from 1919
Good Gracious Annabelle, Ed Rose, George Whiting, and Lew Pollack
I Ain'ten Goten No Time to Have the Blues, Harry Von Tilzer and Andrew B. Sterling
I'd Like to Take You Away, Hugo Riesenfeld and Harry B. Smith
I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome, James Kendis, James Brockman, Nat. Vincent, and Henry Hutt
I'll Be Happy When the Preacher Makes You Mine, Walter Donaldson, Sam M. Lewis, and Joe Young
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Jaan Kenbrovin and John William Kellette
I'm Like a Ship Without a Sail, James Brockman
I'm Like a Ship Without a Sail, Kendis and Brockman
Irene, Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy
Jazz Baby, Blanche Merrill and M.K. Jerome
Just a Girl Like You, Harold B. Freeman and Charles L. Ruddy
Just for Me and Mary, Leo Edwards, Grant Clarke, Howard E. Rogers, and André C. De Takacs
Let the Rest of the World Go By, Ernest R. Ball and J. Keirn Brennan
Let the Rest of the World Go By, Ernest R. Ball and J. Keirn Brennan
Let the Rest of the World Go By, J. Keirn Brennan and Ernest R. Ball
Let The Rest Of The World Go By, J. Keirn Brennan, Ernest R. Ball, and M. Witmark & Sons
Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses, Leslie Cooke and John Openshaw
Loves Rosary, Jennie Innella, Geo. Buxton, and Dawson Dumont
Mammy O'Mine, William Tracey and Maceo Pinkard
Mary, Anita Owen and Haskell Coffin
Mothers Rosary of Love, Eddie Dorr, Leo Wood, and E. H. Pfeiffer
My Little Butterfly, Harold B. Freeman
MY Wife is Out on Strike, James F. Hanley and Jack Mahoney
NC-4, F. E. Bigelow
Nobody But You, Arthur J. Jackson, Buddy Gard De Sylva, and George Gershwin
Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems to Care), Irving Berlin
Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems to Care), Irving Berlin
Nobody Knows and Nobody Seems to Care, Irving Berlin
Oh Helen!, Chas. R. McCarron and Carey Morgan
Oh, What a Pal Was Mary, Edgar Leslie, Bert Kalmar, and Pete Wendling
Old Fashioned Garden, Cole Porter
Old Fashioned Garden, Cole Porter
On Miami Shore, William LeBaron and Victor Jacobi
On Miami Shore, William LeBaron and Victor Jacobi
Patches, J. Will Callahan and Lee S. Roberts
Peggy, Neil Moret, Frederick S. Manning, and Harry Williams
Pining, Frederick Seymour and Fred W. Pike
Poor Little Butterfly is a Fly Girl Now, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, and M. K. Jerome
Put Me To Sleep In Your Heart, Sam Lewis, Joe Young, and Bert Grant
Salvation Lassie of Mine, Jack Caddigan and Chick Story
Salvation Rose, Robert Levenson and Jack Mendelsohn
Sipping Cider Thru A Straw, Lee David and Carey Morgan
Smilin' Through Song, Arthur A. Penn
Some Day You'll Want Me Back, Carey Morgan and Wel Retrop
Swanee, Irving Caesar and George Gershwin
Tears Tell, C. Wilson and F. Wilson
Tee-Oodle-Um-Bum-Bo, B.G. De Sylva, Arthur J. Jackson, and Geroge Gershwin
Those Olden Golden Days, Bobby Heath and Alexander Marr
Vamp, Byron Gay
Wait and See (You'll Want Me Back), Chas. R. McCarron
When Ireland Comes Into Her Own, Jeff Branen and Jack Stanley
When the Cherry Blossoms Fall (Love is Love), Anselm Goetzl
World Is Waiting For The Sunrise, Eugene Lockhart and Ernest Seitz
You'd Be Surprised, Irving Berlin
You Took The Sweet From Sweetheart, Alex Sullivan, Al. Doyle, and Irving Kaufman
Submissions from 1918
After the War is Over, Joseph Woodruff
A Tale of the Fireside, J. J. Thornton and James Royce Shannon
Beautiful Ohio, Mary Earl and Ballard Macdonald
Beautiful Ohio Song, Mary Earl and Ballard Macdonald
Birthday of a King, William Harold Neidlinger and Francis Fischer Powers
Clear the Way, Henry Erskine Smith, Frederick J. Bacon, and E. O. Winship
Dancing to the Sugar Tune, Louis Wolfe Gilbert
Dear Little Boy of Mine, Ernest R. Ball and J Keirn Brennan
Dear Old Pal of Mine, Gitz Rice Lieut.
End of a Perfect Day, Carrie Jacobs Bond and J. P. McEvoy
Everything is Peach down in Georgia, Grant Clarke, Milton Ager, and George W. Meyer
Has Anybody Seen my Corinne?, Lukie Johnson
Have a Smile for Everyone You Meet, and They Will Have a Smile for You, Bert Rule, J. Keirn Brennan, and Paul Cunningham
Head Over Heels, Jerome Kern
Hello Wisconsin (Won’t You Find My Yonnie Yonson), Bert Kalmar, Edgar Leslie, and Harry Ruby
Her Shadow, Frederick R. Burton and Charles Wakefield Cadman
His Buttons Are Marked U.S., Carrie Jacobs-Bond and Mary Norton Bradford
I Cannot Bear to Say Goodbye, Anita Owen
If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany!, George W. Meyer, Grant Clarke, and Howard E. Rogers
I'll Be There, Laddie Boy, I'll Be There, E. Clinton Keithley
I'm Always chasing Rainbows, Harry Carroll and Joseph McCarthy
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Harry Carroll and Joseph McCarthy
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Joseph McCarthy and Harry Carroll
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, N. J. Clesi
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, N.J. Clesi and Theodore Morse
Indiana, Ballard Macdonald and James F. Hanley
It's Never Too Late to Be Sorry, Joe Burke and James E. Dempsey
Ja-Da, Bob Carleton
Just Stepped In To Get Out Of The Rain, Al Harriman, Lew Brown, and Jack Egan
Keep Your Head Down Fritzie Boy, Gitz Rice
K-K-K-Katy, Geoffrey O'Hara
Mammy's Lullaby, Lee S. Roberts and J. Will Callahan
Mickey, Harry Williams and Neil Moret
Moments or Jewels of Memory, Charles Kuhn, Jeff Branen, and Robert Kuhn
My Baby Boy, William Dillon and Al Von Tilzer
My Wild Days are Over, Rubey Cowan and Lew Brown
No More at Evening, Maurice Nitke and Alexander Ivanoff
Nourmaleen, Henry Erskine Smith and Frederick J. Bacon
Oh! Frenchy, Sam Ehrlich and Con Conrad
Oh! Harry! Harry!, Nat Vincent and Lew Pollock
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, Irving Berlin
Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning, Irving Berlin
Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning, Irving Berlin
Oh! How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, and Pete Wendling
Oh, Moon of the Summer's Night, Allen J. Flynn