Guide to the Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 4: Songwriters Volumes I and II NMAH.AC.0300.S04 NMAH Staff Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Scope and Contents note.............................................................................................. 21 Biographies of Song Writers............................................................................................ 2 Arrangement note.......................................................................................................... 22 Bibliography.................................................................................................................... 22 Container Listing ........................................................................................................... 23 Subseries 4.1: Burt Bacharach and Hal David, 1943-1971.................................... 23 Subseries 4.2: Irving Berlin, 1907-1962................................................................. 23 Subseries 4.3: B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson, 1913-1941........ 34 Subseries 4.4: Sammy Cahn, 1936-1967.............................................................. 37 Subseries 4.5: Hoagy Carmichael, 1928-1963...................................................... 38 Subseries 4.6: George M. Cohan, 1895-1968....................................................... 40 Subseries 4.7: Peter De Rose, 1916-1956............................................................ 43 Subseries 4.9: Paul Dresser, 1886-1958............................................................... 45 Subseries 4.8: Walter Donaldson, 1915-1944........................................................ 47 Subseries 4.10: Gus Edwards, 1898-1935............................................................ 51 Subseries 4.11: Stephen Collins Foster, circa 1847-1975..................................... 53 Subseries 4.12: Rudolf Friml, 1905-1934; 1940-1954........................................... 58 Subseries 4.13: George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, 1916-1962.......................... 60 Subseries 4.14: Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, Arthur Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, and Richard Rodgers, 1896-1965..................................................... 64 Subseries 4.15: Charles K. Harris, 1891-1954...................................................... 69 Subseries 4.16: Victor Herbert, 1895-1955............................................................ 72 Subseries 4.17: Carrie Jacobs Bond, 1897-1942.................................................. 75 Subseries 4.18: Charles L. Johnson, 1899-1936................................................... 78 Subseries 4.19: Gus Kahn, 1907-1953.................................................................. 79 Subseries 4.20: Jerome Kern, 1902-1959............................................................. 85 Subseries 4.21: Johnny Mercer, 1930-1966.......................................................... 89 Subseries 4.22: Kerry Mills, 1896-1936................................................................. 91 Subseries 4.23: James V. Monaco, 1911-1948..................................................... 93 Subseries 4.24: Ethelbert Nevin, 1884-1952......................................................... 94 Subseries 4.25: Cole Porter, 1916-1956................................................................ 95 Subseries 4.26: Sigmund Romberg, 1914-1954.................................................... 97 Subseries 4.27: George F. Root (G. F. Wurzel) and Frederick W. Root, 1851-1907............................................................................................................. 101 Subseries 4.28: Billy Rose, 1921-1942; 1950...................................................... 102 Subseries 4.29: John Philip Sousa, 1886-1915................................................... 104 Subseries 4.30: Andrew B. Sterling, 1897-1935.................................................. 105 Subseries 4.31: Jule Styne, 1922-1967............................................................... 106 Subseries 4.32: Arthur S. Sullivan, 1865-1941, undated..................................... 107 Subseries 4.33: Egbert Van Alstyne, 1896-1937................................................. 109 Subseries 4.34: Albert Von Tilzer, 1900-1947...................................................... 111 Subseries 4.35: Harry Von Tilzer, 1897-1954...................................................... 114 Subseries 4.36: Harry Warren, 1913-1956........................................................... 119 Subseries 4.37: Pete Wendling, 1905-1937......................................................... 121 Subseries 4.38: Percy Wenrich, 1903-1946......................................................... 121 Subseries 4.40: Jack Yellen, 1912-1942; 1955.................................................... 125 Subseries 4.41: Vincent Youmans, 1920-1940.................................................... 126 Subseries 4.39: Richard A Whiting, 1903-1946................................................... 127 Subseries 4.42: Stanley Adams, 1933-1946........................................................ 130 Subseries 4.43: Milton Ager, 1916-1939.............................................................. 130 Subseries 4.44: Fred E. Ahlert, 1920-1960.......................................................... 132 Subseries 4.45: Harry Akst, 1918-1947, undated................................................ 133 Subseries 4.46: Steve Allen, 1950-1959.............................................................. 133 Subseries 4.47: Harold Arlen, 1929-1950............................................................ 133 Subseries 4.48: Harry W. Armstrong, 1902-1937................................................ 134 Subseries 4.49: Paul Ash, 1923-1928................................................................. 135 Subseries 4.50: Gene Austin, 1911-1958............................................................ 135 Subseries 4.51: Ernest R. Ball, 1902-1927; 1952................................................ 135 Subseries 4.52: Roy Bargy, 1922-1925............................................................... 139 Subseries 4.53: Phil Baxter, 1928-1936............................................................... 139 Subseries 4.54: Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth, 1906-1941.............................. 139 Subseries 4.55: Milton Berle, 1924-1952............................................................. 140 Subseries 4.56: Ben Bernie, 1922-1939.............................................................. 141 Subseries 4.57: David Braham and Edward (Ned) Harrigan, 1873-1909; 1938... 142 Subseries 4.58: Ernest Breuer, 1912-1939.......................................................... 143 Subseries 4.59: Shelton Brooks, 1909-1941........................................................ 144 Subseries 4.60: A. Seymour Brown, 1909-1928.................................................. 145 Subseries 4.61: George Brown, 1951-1952......................................................... 146 Subseries 4.62: Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, 1920-1948....................... 146 Subseries 4.63: Nacio Porter Brown, 1944-1947................................................. 147 Subseries 4.64: Gene Buck, 1912-1919.............................................................. 147 Subseries 4.65: Walter Bullock, 1936-1937......................................................... 147 Subseries 4.66: Irving Caesar, 1914-1944........................................................... 148 Subseries 4.67: J. Will Callahan, 1911-1941....................................................... 148 Subseries 4.68: Earl Carroll, 1912-1946.............................................................. 150 Subseries 4.69: Harry Carroll and Ballard MacDonald, 1904-1934...................... 151 Subseries 4.70: Cecile Chaminade, 1889-1936, undated.................................... 152 Subseries 4.71: Claribel (Mrs. Charles Barnard), 1868-1925, undated................ 153 Subseries 4.72: George L. Cobb, 1911-1936...................................................... 154 Subseries 4.75: Chester Conn (Cohn) & Ned Miller, 1922-1953.......................... 154 Subseries 4.73: Russ Columbo, 1930-1951........................................................ 155 Subseries 4.74: Edward Elzear (Zez) Confrey, 1920-1969.................................. 155 Subseries 4.76: Con Conrad, 1912-1936............................................................. 156 Subseries 4.77: Charlie Crozat Converse, 1835-1866, undated.......................... 157 Subseries 4.78: J. Fred Coots, 1916-1956.......................................................... 157 Subseries 4.79: Sam Coslow, 1919-1953............................................................ 158 Subseries 4.80: Lynn, Rubey, and Stanley Cowan, 1911-1941........................... 160 Subseries 4.81: Noel Coward, 1925-1944........................................................... 160 Subseries 4.82: Frank Crumit, 1920-1943........................................................... 161 Subseries 4.83: Xavier