Sheet Music Collection

Composer

Fred E. Ahlert

Files

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Cover Illustration

Photograph of Kate Smith; Woman in orange dress with black trim; Orange, white, and black boxes with designs in contrasting color

First Line of Song

The waltz be gun the dancers start

First Line of Chorus

Why dance

Lyricist

Turk, Roy

Lithographer/Printer

New York: Irving Berlin Inc.

Publication Date

1931

Publisher

New York: Irving Berlin Inc.

Performance Medium

Piano; voice

Music Genre

Popular

Object Type

text

Format (Original)

1 score; (6 p.); 31 cm.

Format (Digital)

PDF

Alternate Print Versions

32278011723990

Physical ID#

32278011723644

Digital ID#

011723644-1931

Location of Original

Box 106; Folder 2; Piece 6

Repository

Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Rights Management

Item Unavailable Due to Copyright Restrictions

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, e-mail sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

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