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Rose Gilbert Music Company [Published date: 1978]. Sheet Music, piano, vocals, Chords. Paper covers (staple bound), 49 pp. In good+ condition. Brown and white paper covers with red and white lettering. Light bumping and creasing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing with a bit of the color scuffed off along the edges and spine. Binding tight (staple bound). Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes music and lyrics to the following songs: Bouncing on the Bayou, Down Yonder, I Could be Wrong, Jeannine, Mama Don't Want no Peas an' Rice an' Cocoanut Oil, Mama Inez, Maria, My Own, Marta, My Little Dream Girl, My Mother's Eyes, My Sweet Adair, The Next Time I Care, The Peanut Vender, Ramona, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. [From inside of front cover] L. Wolfe "Wolfie" Gilbert was born on August 31, 1886 in Odessa, Russia. Emigrating to the U.S. with his family at age seven, he began working and performing in and around the vaudeville scene of New York while still in his teens. He survived in those early days by selling parodies of the current popular songs, simultaneously perfecting his songwriting skills as he played the vaudeville circuits. He formed friendships, associations, and collaborations with many of the famous and infamous: John L. Sullivan, Bat Masterson, the Marx Brothers, Jessel, Jolson, Cantor, Benny and Burns; Jimmy McHugh, Johnny Mercer, Rudolph Friml to name a few, as well as gangsters, writers, and politicians. Till his death on July 12, 1970, his songwriting career spanned from vaudeville to television with many of his hits becoming a part of Americana. Among his many honors was his posthumous induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1973. L. Wolfe Gilbert was versatile as a songwriter, author, newspaperman, and music publisher. A tireless member of the Board of Directors of A.S.C.A.P. from 1941 to 1970, he became known as the Dean of Tin Pan Alley. Hit revivals of his music continue to this day witnessed by "Down Yonder" in 1952 (18 weeks on the hit parade). The Blue Diamonds' version of "Ramona" in the sixties, and currently, "My Mother's Eyes" recorded by Willie Nelson on his best selling album, "Over the Rainbow". "Wolfie's" songs clearly live on as a continuing part of American Music.