The Red, White and Blue Is Calling You
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https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/fa612ea0-c556-0134-2373-0050569601ca-4Descriptive Information
Title | The Red, White and Blue Is Calling You |
Composer | Johnson, Billy |
Lyricist | Johnson, Billy |
Publisher | Frank K. Root & Co. [McKinley Music Co., Owners] |
Place of Publication | Chicago (Ill.) |
Year of Publication | 1916 |
Date of Copyright | No copyright registered. |
Physical Description | 1 score ([1], 2–5, [1] p.) |
Comment | Judging by newspaper accounts, this song never reached much beyond the midwest and had no impact in the entertainment industry. |
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Musical Note | Marked “marcia,” this march song more resembles a brisk one-step, with frequent syncopation, some in double-time. The chorus quotes the refrain of “Dixie” (first phrase) in its penultiumate phrase. |
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Musical Genre | One-step |
Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sousa Archives and Center for American Music |
Cover Description |
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Back Cover Description | Advertisement for “Our Latest Popular Successes”. Four rows of samples: Top row: samples and covers for Moonlight Blues (© 1916, advertised 1916 12 08) I Ain’t Got Nobody (© 1914 04 08) Second row: samples for The Hour of Memory (© 1916 07 12) When the Moon Shines Down in Old Alaska (© 1916 05 04) Paradise Blues (© 1916 10 14) Third row: samples for Avalon (© 1917, advertised 1917 02 07) Just Because You Won My Heart (© 1916, advertised 1917 02 07) Pussyfoot (© 1916 07 20) Fourth row: samples and covers for When Shadows Fall (© 1916 06 30) Darlin’ (© 1916, advertised 1916 08 19) |
Performance Medium | voice and piano |
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Local Identifier | 2014_12996_608 |
Collection Title | James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, 1836-1986 |
Collection | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection |
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