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Thread #57661   Message #907947
Posted By: GUEST,Q
12-Mar-03 - 12:41 AM
Thread Name: Pop Lyrics 1886
Subject: RE: POP LYRICS 1886
Many of them are well-known songs from the 1830s to the 1850s.
Some of them have been posted and discussed in detail in Mudcat. Most are available as original sheet music from American Memory and Levy sheet music so there is no point in repeating them. The first step would be to eliminate those at these two sites, then check other sites to eliminate those that are easily found. The remainder would be candidates for posting.

All Foster, Blake, Bland, Emmett, Hays, Winner, Work, Hawthorne songs can be eliminated. Sheet music exists at sites accessible on the web.

Always of interest are previously unposted verses of old standbys like Old Dan Tucker, Little Brown Jug, etc. and those withour listed authors.

I checked a few that I didn't recognize, like Little More Cider, by Hart- in American Memory; This Old Home... by White, in American Memory; Ellie Rhee (1865), in American Memory. No point in posting these.