There is an easy way to find out about old songs that we often
encounter on music rolls. As always, the Center for Popular Music
(a research facility housed at Middle Tennessee State University),
with the largest collection of sheet music I have ever encountered,
came up with the answers. Click here to get their superb search engine:
http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/musicbrf.htm
This quickly yielded the following results.
Title: Drizzle, Drizzle, (The Party's A Fizzle)
Author: Ellis, Seger; Herbert, Jean lyr; Koppel, Al lyr
Publisher: Robbins Music Corporation
Date: 1928
Title: A Hundred Years from To-day
Author: Young, Victor; Young, Joseph lyr; Washington, Ned lyr
Publisher: Robbins Music Corporation
Date: 1933
Title: Nobody Loves Me
Author: Norman, Karyl; Simonds, Bobbie; Norman, Karyl lyr
Publisher: Milton Weil Music Co., Inc.
Date: 1924
Richard Vance
[ The home page of Center of Popular Music should also be at
[ http://www.mtsu.edu/~ctrpopmu/ but my Internet server
[ couldn't locate it. I hope the outage is temporary.
[ I did find a closely replated page at
[ http://www.mtsu.edu/~ctrpopmu/service.html
[ A list of public sheet music collections, compiled by the
[ Music Library Association, is given at
[ http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/sheetmusic/collections.html
[ -- Robbie
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