Description
Consolidated Music Publishers, Published 1975. Sheet music, songbook, 143 pp.; 31 cm; second printing (letter line "e d c b"); catalog no. 040193; pictorial wraps with black-and-white photo collage of the decade (dancing couple, 48-star flag, Truman portrait, servicemen with a Stars and Stripes PEACE extra, jukebox, roadside diner), title in red; illustrated with black-and-white photographs; piano-vocal arrangements with guitar chord frames. Edited by Jeffrey Weiss; text by Martha Saxton and Rupert Holmes.
Condition & notes
In Good condition. Front cover with mild toning, mild shelf wear, light creasing and small nicks along edges and corners, light soiling; rear cover with mild toning and a few small spots. Binding tight. Tan dampstain along lower margins of preliminary leaves and early text pages, light spotting at upper margin of title page. Handwritten annotations in the music, pp. 142-143. Pages lightly toned, otherwise unmarked. Songbook and illustrated popular history of the 1940s. Pages 7-50 give a history of the decade with full-page photographs, including The Maltese Falcon, the Andrews Sisters, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw and Harry James, the West Virginia and Tennessee at Pearl Harbor, and Bess Myerson crowned Miss America 1945; portions reprinted from Eric F. Goldman's The Crucial Decade and Barck and Blake's Since 1900. Pages 51-143 give 30 hits of the forties arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords. Text writers appear to be Rupert Holmes, later of "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" and the Tony-winning The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Martha Saxton, later a historian at Amherst College. Contents: The Silver Screen; Tin Pan Alley; The War; The Readjustment; The Truman Era; Hits of the Forties: (Ah Yes) There's Good Blues Tonight; Aren't You Glad You're You; Are These Really Mine; Atlanta, G.A.; But Beautiful; Bye Bye Baby; Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep); Close to You; Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend; Do You Care?; Going My Way; I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do); Imagination; In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room; I Should Care; I Think of You; It Started All Over Again; Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina; Mairzy Doats; May I Never Love Again; Oh, You Crazy Moon; Opus One; Personality; Sunday, Monday or Always; Sunrise Serenade; Swinging on a Star; There Are Such Things; This Love of Mine; Waitin' for the Train to Come In; Yes Indeed!
