Here are 31 vintage song hits we still love to sing, reprinted from original editions, with complete lyrics, full piano arrangements and reproductions of the original sheet music covers. Among them are:
| Pretty Baby Macnamara’s Band Over There Smiles Poor Butterfly Roses of Picardy Will You Remember M-O-T-H-E-R Memories |
Down Among the Sheltering Palms Hail! Hail! The Gang’s All Here! Keep the Home-Fires Burning Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh! Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag The Darktown Strutters’ Ball I Ain’t Got Nobody The Old Grey Mare The Bells of St. Mary’s |
• . . and ten more sing-along favorites, plus piano arrangements of three all-time instrumental hits: “Nola,” “12th Street Rag” and “Tiger Rag.”
Some of the greatest names in American popular music are represented—composers George M. Cohan, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, W. C. Handy and Sigmund Romberg among them. Some songs were featured in Broadway shows like the Ziegfeld Follies, The Passing Show of 1916, Romberg’s Maytime, Kern’s Leave It to Jane and Berlin’s Stop! Look! Listen! Others came straight from Tin Pan Alley, introduced by such stars as Sophie Tucker, Nora Bayes and Eva Tanguay.
Optimistic, full of fun and sentiment, these evergreen songs will be part of our lives for many decades to come. David Jasen’s introduction to the music of the era and his brief biographies of its composers and lyricists add an extra dimension of enjoyment to this choice collection.
Original Dover (1994) publication. 31 complete songs. 31 illustrations. Introduction. Detailed Table of Contents. Biographies. 144pp. 9 x 12. Paperbound.
Free Dover Complete Music Catalog available upon request.