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Sheet Music with Photographic Themes Popular music has always reflected popular culture so it is no surprise that sheet music can be found with photographic themes. Four examples from our collection are shown below. We also have others including The Snap Shot Man, When I Send you a Picture from Berlin, I Wish I Had a Photograph of That, and The New Photographee. We will add more examples as time goes on. Our cousin, a talented musician, has recorded some of the songs for us. If we can master the logistic of posting sound files we will add some of them to the site. |
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| The Gay Photographer (which we take to mean carefree) is an 1870's English "comic" song by George Grossmith Jr. about a photographer. He broke the heart of a young lady named Miss Jenkins so she drank his chemicals and died. Not a very amusing plot! The cover art is especially interesting because it shows the studio with camera and skylight and the interior of the darkroom. | Below is the 1902 sheet music, The Kodak Girl, a March and Two-Step composed by William T. Cramer and dedicated to the Eastman Kodak Company. A cut in illustration shows an early version of the "Kodak Girl" who was an important part of Kodak advertising for over a hundred years. | |
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The Focus by Harry J. Lincoln features a cupid standing on a stack of hearts with a folding plate camera on a tripod. Like The Kodak Girl it is a March and Two-Step. It was published by the Vandersloot Music company of Willamsport, Pennsylvania and from the style of camera and the dates the company was in business it must date from the first few decades of the 20th century. We framed it some time ago and have misplaced the notes on the exact date of publication. |
The Photo Shop A Musical Comedy In One Act sheet music below carries a copyright of 1910. The featured song is "I Want You in the Picture". It was published by M. Witmark & Sons. The music was by Karl L. Hoschna, lyrics by Otto A Hauerbach, and book by Edward Clark. It would be interesting so learn if the plot of the comedy had any photographic connection. |
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