Sheet Music, Route 66!. . .: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Route 66!. . .: date made: 1946. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
From the mid-1920s, the United States has had a national system of numbered highways (complementing highways numbered at the state and county level, and by the later interstate system of highways). One of the best known of these is Route 66, which originally ran from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles County, California. It was one of the first routes in this system. This song by Bob Troup describes the path of the highway and urges listeners to “Get your kicks on Route 66.” It represents the version of the song recorded for Capitol Records by the King Cole Trio.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1946
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 23 cm x 31 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 12 7/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.028
- catalog number: 1988.3086.028
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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