Sheet Music, I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs: date copyrighted: 1919. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Those emphasizing continuing behavior often describe repeating something a thousand times. In this case, the something was singing love songs. The song was in a 1936 Warner Brothers movie entitled "Cain and Mabel" that starred Marion Davies and Clark Gable. The music and lyrics are by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, and the piece was copyrighted in 1919.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date copyrighted: 1919
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23 cm x 30.4 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 11 31/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.018
- catalog number: 1988.3086.018
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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