Appleton Sheet Music collection, 1925-1955

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Appleton Sheet Music



Box 1 Miscellaneous:


Box 1 Mein galantes boudoir


Box 1 Franco-American rag


Box 1 A hot time in the old town


Box 1 Down by the old mill stream


Box 1 Going up


Box 1 I want a boy


Box 1 How's ev'ry little thing in Dixie


Box 1 The island of roses and love


Box 1 I want a little love from you


Box 1 Come Josephine in my flying machine


Box 1 By the beautiful sea


Box 1 Somebody else is getting it


Box 1 There's a little bit of bad in every good little girl


Box 1 There's a broken heart for every light on Broadway


Box 1 Waiting for the Robert E. Lee


Box 1 Take me out to the ball game


Box 1 Chinatown my Chinatown


Box 1 Cleopatra had a jazz band


Box 1 Clarinet marmalade


Box 1 Tell me pretty maiden


Box 1 Oh, you beautiful doll


Box 1 Ballin' the Jack


Box 1 Under the bamboo tree


Box 1 That ragtime Suffragette, Ziegfeld Follies of 1913


Box 1 Hello, Frisco! Ziegfeld Follies of 1915


Box 1 Tulip time, Ziegfeld Follies of 1919


Box 1 Moving day in Jungletown, Ziegfeld Follies of 1909


Box 1 See-saw


Box 1 Maxime Brasilienne "Sans Souci"


Box 1 Three twins


Box 1 A lemon in the garden of love


Box 1 The chocolate soldier waltzes


Box 1 Minor Shows and Composers:


Box 1 Blowin the blues away


Box 1 Sunny disposish


Box 1 The Thousand Islands Song ("Florence!")


Box 1 There must be somethin'better than love


Box 1 A cow and a plough and a Frau!


Box 1 The beauty part


Box 1 All that jazz


Box 1 Roxie


Box 1 Dear world


Box 1 The world is your balloon


Box 1 Here's to your illusions


Box 1 The springtime cometh


Box 1 Flahooley


Box 1 Express yourself


Box 1 Sing happy


Box 1 A quiet thing


Box 1 You wouldn't fool me, would you?


Box 1 Button up your overcoat


Box 1 My lucky star


Box 1 I want to be bad


Box 1 I could give up anything but you


Box 1 Let's hold hands


Box 1 Where did we go? Out. (What did we do? Nothing.)


Box 1 I wanna be loved by you


Box 1 Hello! My lover, good-bye


Box 1 Shake well before using


Box 1 My sweetheart 'tis of thee


Box 1 Ohhh! Ahhh!


Box 1 It means so little to you


Box 1 One second of sex


Box 1 Music in my fingers


Box 1 On the sunny side of the street


Box 1 Exactly like you


Box 1 Jubilation T. Cornpone


Box 1 I fell in love with you


Box 1 Gentleman friend


Box 1 I don't know her name


Box 1 Saturday night in Central Park


Box 1 Phil the fiddler


Box 1 My brudder and me


Box 1 Anything can happen in New York


Box 1 Noises on the street


Box 1 Just a memory


Box 1 I may be wrong


Box 1 Flings


Box 1 Life could be so beautiful


Box 1 You ain't so hot


There's no holding me


Box 1 Good-bye to all that


Box 1 What a world this would be, George White's Scandals 7th annual edition


Box 1 The girl is you and the boy is me, George White's Scandals 8th annual edition


Box 1 The birth of the blues, George White's Scandals 8th annual edition


Box 1 Black bottom, George White's Scandals 8th annual edition


Box 1 Lucky day, George White's Scandals 8th annual edition


Box 1 Sevilla, George White's Scandals 8th annual edition


Box 1 I'm on the crest of a wave, George White's Scandals 9th annual edition


Box 1 Pickin' cotton, George White's Scandals 9th annual edition


Box 1 Bottoms up, George White's Scandals 10th annual edition


Box 1 Bigger and better than ever, George White's Scandals 10th annual edition


Box 1 That's why darkies were born, George White's Scandals 11th annual edition


Box 1 If I thought I could live without you, I'd die, George White's Scandals 11th annual edition


Box 1 Ladies and Gentlemen that's love, George White's Scandals 11th annual edition


Box 1 This is the Mrs., George White's Scandals 11th annual edition


Box 1 My song, George White's Scandals 11th annual edition


Box 1 Ev'rebody has the right to be wrong!


Box 1 Opposites


Box 1 An occasional flight of fancy


Box 1 Show off


Box 1 I like a man around the house


Box 1 Nobody told me


Box 1 When I fall in love


Box 1 You've got possibilities


Box 1 Edie was a lady


Box 1 The old soft shoe


Box 1 My big best shoes


Box 1 Walking happy


Box 1 I don't think I'm in love


Box 1 Was I? Ziegfeld Follies of 1931


Box 1 Do the New York, Ziegfeld Follies of 1931


Box 1 Help yourself to happiness, Ziegfeld Follies of 1931


Box 1 Moon about town, Ziegfeld Follies [1933]


Box 1 Fancy our meeting


Box 1 She's such a comfort to me


Box 1 And her Mother came too!


Box 1 Arlen, Harold


Box 1 Duke, Vernon:


Box 1 Banjo Eyes


Box 1 The Pink Jungle


Box 1 Martin, Hugh


Box 1 Schwartz, Arthur


Box 1 Movie Music:


Box 1 I fall in love too easily


Box 1 How about you?


Box 1 Watching the clouds roll by


Box 1 Why am I so romantic?


Box 1 You brought a new kind of love to me


Box 1 Broadway melody


Box 1 Lonely


Box 1 I only have eyes for you


Box 1 Sing a happy little thing


Box 1 Shanghai Lil


Box 1 By a waterfall


Box 1 Honeymoon hotel


Box 1 Forty-Second Street


Box 1 Shuffle off to Buffalo


Box 1 You're getting to be a habit with me


Box 1 Young and healthy


Box 1 The continental (you kiss while you're dancing)


Box 1 Painting the clouds with sunshine


Box 1 Selection


Box 1 I've got to sing a torch song


Box 1 Remember by forgotten man


Box 1 Shadow waltz


Box 1 Pettin' in the park


Box 1 The gold diggers' song, We're in the money


Box 1 I'm goin' shoppin' with you


The words are in my heart


Box 1 Lullaby of Broadway


Box 1 With plenty of money and you


Box 1 Singin' in the rain


Box 1 Hollywood Revue of 1929, Selection


Box 1 I'm no angel


Box 1 I want you – I need you


Box 1 Beyond the blue horizon


Box 1 Younger generation


Box 1 One hour with you


Box 1 Somebody might like you


Box 1 If I had a talking picture of you


Box 1 Hong Kong blues


Box 1 All at once


Comic Songs:


Box 1 Pseudo Black Songs:


Box 1 Strange fruit


Box 1 Missouri misery


Box 1 Emperor Jones


Box 1 Underneath the Harlem moon


Box 1 Sweet hoodoo


Box 1 Quit cryin' the blues


Box 1 Muddy water (a Mississippi moan)


Box 1 Harlem barcarolle


Box 1 Frosted chocolate


Cinderella Brown


Box 1 Home to Harlem


Box 1 N*** heaven blues


Box 1 Blue pipes of Pan


Box 1 G. I. Jive


Box 1 Specialty Material:


Box 1 At the moving picture ball


Box 1 Water under the bridge


Box 1 Something just broke


Box 1 Here comes the Show Boat


Box 1 As time goes by


Box 1 Fred Astaire's I'm building up to an awful let-down


Box 1 Say it


Box 1 Blame it on my youth


Box 1 All dressed up and no place to go


Box 1 After all these years


Box 1 Charleston


Box 1 Chicago that todd'ling town


Box 1 Charleston mad


Give us the Charleton, George White's Scandals 7th annual edition


Box 1 We won't Charleston


Box 1 Yiddisher Charleston


Box 1 Syncopate


Box 1 I love the land of Old Black Joe


Box 1 The old soft shoe


Box 1 Captain Spalding



Box 2 Berlin, Irving


Box 2 Coward, Noel


Box 2 Damase, Jean Michel:


Box 2 La croqueuse de diamants


Box 2 Gershwin, George


Box 2 Gershwin, George:


Box 2 Incidental Songs


Box 2 Kern, Jerome


Box 2 Porter, Cole:


Box 2 Hitchy-Koo, 1919


Box 2 Rogers & Hart


Box 2 Black Shows & Composers:


Box 2 Two hearts in tune


Box 2 Sweet smellin' mama


Box 2 Minnie the Moocher (The ho de ho song)


Box 2 Gulf Coast blues


Box 2 Loving you the way I do


Box 2 Sweet pain


Box 2 I'm feeling blue for Mammy Lou


Box 2 Have you ever met that funny reefer man


Box 2 Ain't-cha' glad?


Box 2 Rollin' down the river


Box 2 Prisoner of love


Box 2 Funny little you


Box 2 Buddie


Box 2 Little Brown Betty


Box 2 Hold my hand


Box 2 Concentratin' (on you)


Box 2 If it ain't love


Box 2 I've got a feeling I'm falling


Box 2 My fate is in your hands


Box 2 Honeysuckle Rose


Box 2 Gone


Box 2 If you like me (like I like you)


Box 2 Old Yazoo


Box 2 Tall timber


Box 2 The joint is jumpin'


Box 2 Stealin' apples


Box 2 African ripples


Box 2 My heart's at ease


Box 2 Midnight stomp


Box 2 Sheltered by the stars, cradled by the moon


Box 2 Take it from me (I'm takin' to you)


Box 2 I ain't got nothin' but the blues


Box 2 Don't get around much anymore


Box 2 Caravan


Box 2 Mood indigo


Box 2 I didn't know about you


Box 2 Sophisticated lady


Box 2 Drop me off in Harlem


Box 2 Rhapsody in love


Box 2 Sweet substitute


Box 2 Got the south in my soul


Box 2 The moon shines on the moonshine


Box 2 You'll never need a doctor no more


Box 2 I makes mine myself


Box 2 Play that barber shop chord


Box 2 "You're in the right church but the wrong pew"


Box 2 You're gwine to get somethin' what you don't expect


Box 2 That entertaining rag


Box 2 In my old home, (in Dixie land), Bandana land


Box 2 Chocolate drops, cake walk


Box 2 I'm just wild about Harry


Box 2 Dat's harmony, Ziegfeld Follies of 1911