"Go Home and Tell Your Mother": Museum Object and Cultural History
"Go Home and Tell Your Mother": date made: 1930. lyricist: Fields, Dorothy. composer: McHugh, Jimmy.
The object in the museum catalogue
This sheet music is for the song "Go Home and Tell Your Mother," with words by Dorothy Fields and music by Jimmy McHugh. It was published by Robbins Music Corporation in New York, New York in 1930. This song was featured in the 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pre-code comedy film Love in the Rough, directed by Charles Reisner and starred Robert Montgomery, Dorothy Jordan, and Benny Rubin. The cover features images of Robert Montgomery and Dorothy Jordan.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1930
- lyricist: Fields, Dorothy
- composer: McHugh, Jimmy
- depicted (sitter): Montgomery, Robert
- maker: Robbins Music Corporation
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 31.115 cm x 23.495 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- ID Number: 2016.3175.06
- nonaccession number: 2016.3175
- catalog number: 2016.3175.06
- Credit Line: Gift of Ryan Lintelman
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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