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Author:
Batt, Jess R  Search this
Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI  Search this
Physical description:
1 score (3 pages) 35 cm
Type:
Songs and music
Advertisements
Music
Sheet music covers
Sheet music
Place:
United States
Date:
1917
1911-1920
1910-1920
Notes:
"The first and only original aviation war song success!"
Also published under different title: Come over
For voice and piano
Illustrated title page shows monoplanes flying over ocean with ship, cheering crowd on U.S. shore, two men in France looking up with binoculars
March
Publisher's advertisement on verso of page 3 has incipits for piano pieces: Victor ragtime band / music by Alphonse E. Bohrer ; words by Julius C. Spiro. Chopsticks : the Chinese one step / John Wentholt. Swiss cheese rag / by Alphonse E. Bohrer. Frasquita tango / by W. Buse. Sous le feuillage / by W. Buse. Scherzo romantico / by Alphonse E. Bohrer. Harmony waltz / by Alphonce Bohror [that is, Alphonse Bohrer]
Also available online
Elecresource
Topic:
Air pilots  Search this
Airplanes  Search this
Airships  Search this
Marches (Voice with piano)  Search this
Popular music  Search this
War songs  Search this
World War, 1914-1918  Search this
Binoculars  Search this
Crowds  Search this
Men  Search this
Monoplanes  Search this
Ships  Search this
American  Search this
Call number:
M1 .B4
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_978466