America Needs You Like a Mother
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https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/4aa12e60-c0e6-0134-2373-0050569601ca-0Descriptive Information
Title | America Needs You Like a Mother |
Alternative Title | p. 2, top: America Needs You Like a Mother / (Would You Turn Your Mother Down?) |
Composer | Schwartz, Jean |
Lyricist | Clarke, Grant |
Publisher | Kalmar Puck and Abrahams Consolidated, Inc. |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher Address | 1570 Broadway |
Year of Publication | 1917 |
Date of Copyright | 1917-03-06 |
Physical Description | 1 score, voice and piano ([1], 2-3, [1] p.) |
Comment | This song’s impact in vaudeville was short-lived, but it was followed by an arrangement for band that was made quite popular in the summer of 1917. However, professional performances did not persist past then, though a recording issued as late as spring, 1919, suggests some small enduring popularity. |
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Musical Note | This wholly conventional march song (marked “marcia”) employs limited use of syncopation and walking bass; as piano fills at the end of phrases, it quotes Yankee Doodle, Assembly (twice), and a rat-a-tat-tat figure. |
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Subject - Geographic | United States. |
Lyrics |
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Musical Genre | March song |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
Artist | Barbelle |
Printer | p. 3, BR: F. J. Lawson Co. |
Cover Description | Soldier embracing mother; in back, separated by a veil of cloud, are American soldiers and a bugler on horseback; publisher’s imprint (BC) in a modified shield, bracketed by Pan playing pipes. Black, blue, brown, and red on white; signed BR. |
Back Cover Description | In an elaborate frame, peacock at BR, text and sample: Rolling Stones (© 1917 01 09). |
Interior Description | Plate number: p. 3, BL: America Needs You 2 |
Performance Medium | Voice and piano. |
Original Location |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_025 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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