Sheet Music, You're a Builder Upper from Life Begins at 8:40: Museum Object and Cultural History
Sheet Music, You're a Builder Upper from Life Begins at 8:40: date made: 1924. Object Name: Sheet Music. Object Type: Sheet Music.
The object in the museum catalogue
Numbered time sometimes appears in the title of musical revues, as in the one for which this music was written. The song presented is "You're a Builder Upper." The lyrics are by Ira Gerswhin and E. Y. Harburg with music by Harold Arlen.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1924
- Object Name: Sheet Music
- Object Type: Sheet Music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: .1 cm x 22.8 cm x 30 cm; 1/32 in x 8 31/32 in x 11 13/16 in
- Subject: Mathematics
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: 1988.3086.051
- catalog number: 1988.3086.051
- nonaccession number: 1988.3086
- Credit Line: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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