ITEM 1.) Harry Simeone; "God Bless Us, Everyone (Tiny Tim's Prayer)"; A Gospel Rock Tune; Piano / Vocal / Guitar Song Folio; Complete Sheet Music; California Music Press No. 75106;

English Throughout;

Front Cover Artwork is a portrait of Tiny Tim, Artist Unknown;

Preprinted Cover Price of $ ?.??; "1.25" written in pencil in upper left corner;

Inside Front Cover is blank;

Following page is Lyrics only;

Next page is the first page of music;

No Title Page or Table of Contents;

God Bless Us, Everyone (Tiny Tim's Prayer); by Harry Simeone;

1 Tune Total;

4 pages of music; ALL WITH LYRICS:

Inside Rear cover is last page of music;

Rear Cover is essentially blank;

Published by California Music Press, Inc.; New York, New York; Copyright 1974;

Condition Good for age and the fact that it was "on display" for some time; Covers May show storage Wear; Otherwise, Pages Generally Clean, Tight and Unmarked;

The primary item was part of the collection of Henry J. Hauschild Jr., who billed himself as a “Physiognomist – Bibliopolist – Cognoscente di Eccellentissimo”, and was the very proud owner of the world famous "Nose Gallery” at “The Oldest House” in Victoria, Texas. Henry Senior founded the Hauschild Music Company which was later owned by his 8 children and eventually the four brothers before being closed in 1980; After the Opera House Restaurant failed, the space became the Bible Book Store and later Opera House Antiques; This item was part of the leftover inventory of the Music Store and at one time was on consignment at the Bible Book Store;

"Musicologist and historian, Delmer Rogers, longtime member of the staff of the Department of Music at the University of Texas, is of the opinion that the Hauschild Music Company, founded in Victoria, Texas in 1891, was the second oldest institution to commercially publish sheet music in Texas. (Thos. Goggan of Houston being the first.) Also, his extensive research indicates that Hauschild's was the first in Texas to issues music with Spanish titles. About thirty were published, many by talented writers, and sold in large numbers. In addition, probing seems to prove that Hauschilds was the first to publish the efforts of several of the music-loving Germans of the area. Most interesting, too, is that the spritely composition, the Cowboy Rag offered in 1904 possibly was the purcursor of this genre of popular music." taken from "The Cognoscenti Collections";

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HISTORICAL NOTE: "Harry Moses Simeone (May 9, 1911, Newark, New Jersey - February 22, 2005, New York City, USA) was a distinguished music arranger, conductor & composer, best known for arranging the famous Christmas song "The Little Drummer Boy", for which he received co-writing credit. Initiated by his childhood passion for the Metropolitan Opera, Simeone sought a career as a concert pianist & eventually attended the Juilliard School of Music for three years before leaving to begin work at CBS as an arranger for bandleader Fred Waring. After garnering vocal & music arrangement credits for the 1938 RKO motion picture Radio City Revels, Simeone relocated to Hollywood with his wife Margaret McCravy, who was Benny Goodman's 1st singer using the stage name Margaret McCrae, & later a Fred Waring vocalist. Once there, he had various music production jobs for several Paramount films from 1939 to 1946, including some that starred Bing Crosby. During 1948, Simeone joined NBC's "The Swift Show" as the program's orchestra leader, & during 1952, he joined NBC's The Firestone Hour as conductor & choral arranger. When 20th Century Fox Records contracted Simeone to make a Christmas album during 1958, he assembled the Harry Simeone Chorale & searched for recording material. After being introduced to an obscure song by friend & credited song co-author Henry Onorati titled "Carol of the Drum", Simeone recorded the tune as "The Little Drummer Boy" for his album Sing We Now of Christmas. He received co-writing credit for the album, although he did not actually compose the song. The "Little Drummer Boy" single quickly became extremely popular & scored on the U.S. music charts from 1958 to 1962. The Simeone Chorale had another Christmas success during 1962, with their rendition of the then-new song "Do You Hear What I Hear?". A group known as the Harry Simeone Songsters, whose style was similar to that of the Ray Conniff Singers, produced a baseball-oriented song during 1960 called "It's a Beautiful Day for a Ballgame". The song is on one of the Baseball's Greatest Hits CDs & is still played at major league baseball parks. On May 22, 2000, Harry and Margaret McCravy Simeone officially established the Harry & Margaret Simeone Music Scholarship at Yale University by bestowing a gift of US$1 million.";

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