1 Item Set or Lot of "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" from the Ziegfeld Broadway Stage Production Revue Midnight Frolics; by Bert Hanlon, Benny Ryan and Harry Tierney; Arranged by Hugo Frey Sheet Music. Includes:
ITEM 1.) Bert Hanlon, Benny Ryan, Harry Tierney; Hugo Frey, Arranger; M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I; Complete Sheet Music; Piano / Vocal; 1946; Leo Feist #7584;
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From the Florenz Ziegfeld Broadway Stage Production Revue Midnight Frolics;
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Small Format;
English Throughout;
Front Cover Artwork featuring a big sister playing a piano as a boy watches;
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Simplified Piano Solo with Words - Children's Edition;
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Preprinted Cover Price of $ .35; This has been overprinted with "$ .40";
Inside Front Cover has first page of music;
No Title Page or Table of Contents;
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I; Words by Bert Hanlon and Benny Ryan; Melody by Harry Tierney; Arrangement by Hugo Frey;
1 Tune Total;
2 pages of music with lyrics;
Inside rear cover is last page of music;
Rear Cover has ad for "Simplified Piano Solos Children's Edition Edited by Hugo Frey With The Big Notes and Words"; NOTE: May in fact include work arranged by other than Frey;
Published by Leo Feist, Inc.; New York, New York; Copyright 1916, 1946;
Condition Good to Fair for age and the fact that it was on display for some time; Covers Show Storage Wear; Primary Hinge Starting to Fail; Otherwise Pages 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 Eccellentissimoâ€, 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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NOTE: GENERIC PHOTO - REPRESENTATIVE, BUT NOT the actual item in this lot;
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HISTORICAL NOTE: "The song
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I was written by
Ben Ryan for
Frances White, who introduced it in the
Florenz Ziegfeld revue Midnight Frolics in 1916, & it was used again two years later in a revue called
Hitchy-Koo. The inspiration for the song probably did not result from the difficulty of spelling the name of the river & the state, but rather from the fun of saying "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I." As a result of the song's popularity, almost everybody can spell
Mississippi correctly. Words by
Bert Hanlon &
Ben Ryan; Music by
Harry Tierney.";
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HISTORICAL NOTE: "
Bert Hanlon. Birth:
19 Aug. 1890,
New York City, New York, USA. Death:
1 Jan. 1972, New York City, New York, USA. Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m). Composer, songwriter, actor, author & director, educated at City College of New York. He appeared in
vaudeville,
Broadway musicals & films & wrote special material for films, as well as serving as dialogue director. One of his jobs was as publicity director for Yonkers Raceway. Joining ASCAP in 1923, his chief musical collaborators included Walter Donaldson, James Hanley, Al Bryan, Harry Tierney, Harry Akst, & Milton Ager. His popular-song compositions included "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I", "Round on the End, High in the Middle", "Far Far Away in Rockaway", "I'd Love to Be a Monkey in the Zoo", "Four Little Walls & Me", "Omaha", & "Vamping Rose".";
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HISTORICAL NOTE: "
Harry Austin Tierney (May 21, 1890 – March 22, 1965) was a successful
American composer of
musical theatre, best known for long-running hits such as
Irene (1919), Broadway's longest-running show of the era (620 performances),
Kid Boots (1923) &
Rio Rita (1927), one of the 1st musicals to be turned into a talking picture (& later remade starring
Abbott & Costello). Born in
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, he was most active between about 1910 & 1930, often collaborating with the lyricist
Joseph McCarthy. His mother was a pianist, his father a trumpeter, & he himself toured as a concert pianist in his early years. After a brief spell working in London for a music publisher, he returned to the US in 1916. Over the next couple of decades many of his songs were used in the famous
Ziegfeld Follies, & were performed by the premier singers of the day, such as
Eddie Cantor,
Anna Held &
Edith Day. The year 1919 saw his greatest Broadway hit, the show
Irene, which contained perhaps his most well-known song, "Alice Blue Gown", as well as "Castle of Dreams," an adaptation of
Chopin's
Minute Waltz. This same show was made into a film in 1926, then remade in 1940 with
Anna Neagle &
Ray Milland, & again for the stage in 1973 with
Debbie Reynolds. The original show broke the then record for the longest running show, at 620 performances. Other shows followed with varying success, in particular,
Rio Rita (collaborating with Joseph McCarthy, & one of
RKO's 1st forays in converting a musical to the silver screen), &
Kid Boots,
Dixiana (1929) &
Half Shot at Sunrise (1930) were also made into films. Tierney's successes after this period were sketchy (apart from the film remakes of
Irene), but he was elected into the
Songwriter's Hall of Fame. Harry Tierney is interred at
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in
New Rochelle, New York.
Shows: Keep Smiling (1913);
Irene (1919) - including famous popular song 'Alice Blue Gown';
The Broadway Whirl (1921);
Up she Goes (1922);
Glory (1922);
Kid Boots (1923);
Rio Rita (1927);
Cross My Heart (1928). The long form of Tierney's goes on Austin Tierney is named after his great uncle Harry Austin Tierney.";
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HISTORICAL NOTE: "Hugo Frey: Birth: 26 Aug. 1873, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Death: 13 Feb. 1952, New York City, New York, USA. Composer, songwriter, conductor, arranger, violist & pianist, educated at the Chicago Conservatory & a student of Luigi van Kunits. He was a violist with the Listemann Sring Quartet between 1896 & 1898, & then a pianist for the Red Path Grand Concert Company in 1898-1899. He conducted & arranged for dance orchestras & for musical stage productions, & wrote the stage score for the Chicago production of "The Elopers". He conducted & arranged for Victor Phonograph Company recording sessions between 1916 & 1924, & from 1921 he was on the staff of music-publishing companies in New York. Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, his popular-song compositions include "Havanola", "Rockin' the Boat", "Yodel Dodel Doh", "Sarah from Sahara", "When You Come Back", "American's Creed", & "On the Home Front.";
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