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