Description
Henry Waterson Inc., Published 1926. Sheet music, 6 pp.; 31 cm; plate 1718-3; pictorial cover by Barbelle with an inset photograph of the performer Tony Lopez.
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Condition & notes
In Good condition. Bright red pictorial cover with a few short tears and creasing at the top edge and light chipping at the upper corners; two previous owners' names in pencil and ink on the front cover; light toning and soiling. Interior music pages clean and unmarked.Cover art by Barbelle (Albert Wilfred Barbelle), a red, white, and black concentric-circle design centered on a tuxedoed man and a bobbed-hair flapper, signed at lower left; Barbelle was among the most collected of American sheet music cover artists. The sheet appeared with different "featured by" performer photographs, and this copy carries the inset of Tony Lopez (other copies show the recording star Bob Blake), making it a distinct state. A comic novelty number recorded in 1926, the song is the work of two important Tin Pan Alley writers: lyricist Roy Turk, who went on to co-write "Mean to Me" and Bing Crosby's theme "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day," and composer George W. Meyer, who wrote "For Me and My Gal." The ukulele arrangement, with chord diagrams, is by Harry Tiedeman, Waterson's staff arranger. Back cover reproduces piano-vocal excerpts of five other Waterson songs, among them "Lonesome and Sorry" and "Hot Henry!"