Sheet Music, Thanks a Million: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, Thanks a Million: date made: 1935. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
While grateful people have written for centuries about giving thanks a million times, the phrase "thanks a million" seems to have come to be used in written English in the 1920s, and was common by the 1930s. This sheet music represents the theme song from a Twentieth Century Fox movie entitled "Thanks a Million." It has lyrics by Gus Kah and melody by Arthur Johnston.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1935
- 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: 1988.3086.050
- catalog number: 1988.3086.050
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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