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Let me down easy, or, The machinery man words & music by Tom Farrel

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Author:
Farrel, Tom  Search this
Starmer  Search this
Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
1 score ([8] pages) 35 cm
Type:
Songs and music
Caricatures and cartoons
Advertisements
Caricatures
Sheet music covers
Sheet music
Place:
United States
Date:
1906
1901-1910
1900-1910
Notes:
"Sung by the stars of Vaudeville"
Illustrated title page features a caricatured African American man falling from the sky from a broken flying machine among the clouds. Signed "Starmer"
Price: 5
Publisher's advertisement on bottom of page [3]: "Send for that great hit 'If the man in the moon were a coon.'" Advertisement on bottom of page [4]: "Send for the great song 'If the man in the moon were a coon.'" Advertisement on bottom of page [5]: "'If the man in the moon were a coon,' is a musical gem." Advertisement on bottom of page [6]: "Don't overlook 'If the man in the moon were a coon.'" Advertisement on page [7] has page of music for the chorus of: If the man in the moon were a coon. Advertisement on page [8] has page of music for the chorus of: In after years when I am old / words and music by Cleve M. Williams
For voice and piano
Also available online
Elecresource
Topic:
African American inventors  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Airships  Search this
Automobiles  Search this
Popular music  Search this
Songs with piano  Search this
Aircraft  Search this
Clouds  Search this
American  Search this
Call number:
M1 .B4
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_982973