Sheet Music, Ten Days with Baby: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Ten Days with Baby: date made: 1944. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
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Numbers enter into the length of military postings - including leave. This World War II-era song has lyrics by Mack Gordon and music by James V. Monaco. Gordon described his anticipation for having a ten day furlough to spend with his beloved. The song was used in the Twentieth century-Fox movie "Sweet and Low-Down."
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1944
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 21.4 cm x 29 cm; 1/32 in x 8 7/16 in x 11 13/32 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.023
- catalog number: 1988.3086.023
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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