Sheet Music, I'd Give a Million Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday): Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, I'd Give a Million Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday): date made: 1940. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
In this song, lyricist Milton Berle expresses a lover's regret for the end of a romance in terms of a wish for one day of the past in exchange for a million in the future. The music is by Jerry Livingston.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1940
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23 cm x 30.3 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 11 15/16 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.057
- catalog number: 1988.3086.057
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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