“You Can Look and You Can Listen But M-U-M is the Word”: Museum Object and Cultural History
“You Can Look and You Can Listen But M-U-M is the Word”: publishing date: 1908. publisher: Hitland Music Publishers. Object Name: sheet music.
The object in the museum catalogue
This sheet music for the song "You Can Look and You Can Listen But M-U-M Is The Word" was written and composed by Jason Brockman and J. Fred Helf. The music was published by Hitland Music Publishers of New York, New York in 1908. The cover has a solid yellow background, with an illustration of two men standing up, with the dandy giving the straight man a wink and a nudge not to tell the Missus about his times down at the dance café.
Materials, dates and provenance
- publishing date: 1908
- publisher: Hitland Music Publishers
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 13 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 33.655 cm x 26.67 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- ID Number: 1982.0439.07
- catalog number: 1982.0439.07
- accession number: 1982.0439
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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