Friday, April 24, 2009

2 libraries, 3 songs

Two libraries called, back to back, both looking for sheet music:

* Farmingdale looking for: You'll always be the One I Love (librarian said Dean Martin sang it)
* Oyster Bay looking for: You made me love You, and It had to be You.

Found all three, with Keyword searches.

It had to be you; song. Lyric by Gus Kahn. Sheet music
Jones, Isham, 1894-1956.
New York, Jerome H. Remick & Co. [c1924]
score (5 p.)

You made me love you (I didn't want to do it) in
100 years of popular music, 1900 piano, vocal, chords. Q 785.5 O
Miami, Fla. : Warner Bros., c2003.
1 score (255 p.) ; 31 cm.

You'll always be the one I love in
Frank Sinatra : the best of the Capitol years. Q 784.8 Sinatra
Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998.
Miami, FL : Warner Bros. Publications, c1997.
1 score (233 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

And I also found this little gem (it also has You made me Love You):
Barbershops, bullets, and ballads : an annotated anthology of underappreciated American musical jewels, 1865-1918 / compiled by William E. Studwell and Bruce R. Schueneman ; song texts assembled and revised by Bruce R. Schuenemann.

Looking at it, I quickly realized it's an annotated anthology (780.973 B), and contains facts, not music. You made me Love You was published in 1913, says the annotation, continuing:

words by Joseph (Joe) McCarthy (1885-1943), lyrics by James V. Monaco (1885-1945), a romantic protest song, first appeared in the extravaganza The Honeymoon Express (1913). Bandleader Harry James used this AL Jolson favorite as one of his themes, brilliantly performed by James on his trumpet.
Both compilers are librarians: Studwell (MA, MSLS) at Northern Illinois Universitry, DeKalb; Scheneman (MLS, MS) at Texas A&M.

HWPL is the only library in Nassau that owns the book (no surprise there), and the book has not circulated since being entered into the collection on June 19, 2001 (no suprise there, either).

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