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Mandy : Ain't You Coming Out To-night : Song [Sheet Music], photograph 1 of 4

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Description

Jerome H. Remick & Co. [Published Date: 1914]. Sheet music, large format (10.75" x 13.5"). Paper covers, 6 pages (including covers). For voice and piano.

Condition & notes

In good condition with a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges with slits along the top and bottom of the fold of the outer covers. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to pages as well, but otherwise unmarked. Beautiful cover design by Starmer. Stanley Murphy (1875 - 1919) was an Irish-American lyricist known for his work on popular early 20th-century songs, often collaborating with composers like Henry I. Marshall. Among their well-known collaborations is "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" (1912). Henry I. Marshall (1883 - 1958), an American composer, worked extensively in vaudeville and Broadway. Together, they wrote "Mandy Ain't You Coming Out To-Night" which falls within the vaudeville's love-song style, popular in the early 20th century. [Verse I] I can hear you shuffling on the cabin floor, Mandy, Mandy! I can see you, honey, through the cabin door, Mandy, Mandy! I can hear that little tune you're syncopating, I can feel my little heart a palpitating; Hurry wn't you, honey, don't you keep me waiting, Mandy dear. [Chorus] Mandy! Mandy! ain't you coming out tonight? Mandy! Mandy! see the moon is shining bright, my Mandy! Little stars winking at the wise old moon, 'Cause they know it's time for us to spoon, So, oh, Mandy! Mandy! ain't you coming out to night? A note about the cover art : Some of the most creative and eye-catching cover art of the ragtime-era were done by one of the prolific, but elusive, Starmer Brothers. Their work was of consistently high quality and they were turning out nearly a quarter of all large format covers from the late 1890s to around 1919. The identity of the artists was unknown until an invoice was discovered with a printed heading describing "Starmer" as artist and medical draughtsman. Not much else is known about the Starmer family.