Description
Bregman, Vocco and Conn, Published 1947. Sheet music, 4 pp.; 31 cm; plate B.V.C. 683-2; pictorial cover printed in blue, with photographs of Betty Grable and Dan Dailey.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. A tear of about an inch at the fore-edge of both the front and back leaf, with a few smaller nicks and tears and creasing along the edges. A mild fold crease runs through the center of the sheet. Previous owner's name in ink twice on the cover, with further names written in ink across the faces in the cover photographs. Music mildly toned but otherwise unmarked. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song of 1947, losing to "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah." Betty Grable and Dan Dailey sing it as a duet in Mother Wore Tights, the Technicolor musical Grable named as her own favorite of all her films and the highest-grossing picture of her career, taking more than five million dollars and standing as 20th Century-Fox's biggest release of the year. It was the first of four films she made with Dailey. Walter Lang directed from Miriam Young's book about the real vaudeville team of Frank and Myrtle Burt, with Anne Baxter narrating, uncredited, as their youngest daughter; Alfred Newman won the Academy Award for the scoring. The lyric is by Mack Gordon, who wrote "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "At Last" and had already taken an Oscar for "You'll Never Know," and the music by Josef Myrow, his partner on "You Make Me Feel So Young" the year before. For voice and piano with chord symbols. The cover lists the film's songs: You Do; Kokomo, Indiana; There's Nothing Like a Song; This Is My Favorite City; Fare-Thee-Well, Dear Alma Mater; On a Little Two-Seat Tandem. Back cover advertises Geoffrey O'Hara's folio Barber Shop Songs and "Swipes," which carried the official theme song of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America.