"You're My Necessity (I'd Be Lost Without You)": Museum Object and Cultural History
"You're My Necessity (I'd Be Lost Without You)": publishing date: 1928. publisher: DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, Inc.. Object Name: sheet music.
The object in the museum catalogue
This sheet music is for the song, “You’re My Necessity (I’d Be Lost Without You),” with words by B. G. De Sylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson. It was published by De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, Inc. in New York, New York in 1928.
"You're My Necessity (I'd Be Lost Without You)" was featured in the musical, Hold Everything, with music by Ray Henderson, Book by Jack McGowan, and lyrics by Lew Brown and B. C. DeSylva. Hold Everything opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 10, 1928, and closed on October 5, 1929, for a run of 409 performances.
The cover art for this sheet music was made by American artist Helen Van Doorn Morgan (1899-1963). Morgan created sheet music covers mostly from 1920-1930.
Materials, dates and provenance
- publishing date: 1928
- publisher: DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, Inc.
- Object Name: sheet music
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 30.4 cm x 22.8 cm; 11 15/16 in x 9 in
- place made: United States: New York, New York
- ID Number: 1987.0914.11
- accession number: 1987.0914
- catalog number: 1987.0914.11
- Credit Line: Gift of Susan Ostroff
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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