Unlike some of our never-ending projects (ahem, Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, ahem), there are some projects that we’re making slow, steady progress on every day. And that’s why we’re announcing a new batch of items in the Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music – 461 all told!
The items span a century’s worth of song craft from 1845 to the 1950s. There are marches, waltzes, and tons of comedies.
And if you’re in the market for a love song, there are 143 of them ready to inspire even the most hapless of Romeos.
We’re including a gallery of some of our favorite covers here, but be sure to check out the whole collection to find your own favorites. And when you’re on the collection landing page, look for the RSS button to sign up and receive updates whenever we add new items to the collection.
The Bowery by Hoyt & Gaunt, 1933
Salut a la France (France Ever Glorious) by Donizetti, 1855
The Man in the Moon is Looking, by Lonsdale & Eaton, 1878
The Della Fox Little Trooper March by Johnson, 1896
Ev’ry Life Is But A Clock by Skiff & Vynne, 1893
Mary Ann Marie from Hoyt’s A Stranger in New York by Hoyt & Stahl, 1898
The Little Church Around The Corner by Gray & Carroll, 1913
The Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music has nearly 7,000 digital items available from a collection of nearly 30,000 pieces housed in the Crouch Fine Arts Library. See the entire collection here.