Songbook: Looking for info on The Herald Songster

Subject: Looking for info on The Herald Songster
From: Dave Ruch
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 03:30 PM

I found a badly-worn copy in my local historical society's research library in NY, and it seemed to have more trad English & Irish things in it and less sentimental & popular songs of the day. The back cover was torn off and the front cover was in tatters too...I could make out the name of the songster, but no year or city of publication.

A Google search turned up 0 hits.

Subject: RE: Looking for info on The Herald Songster
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 27 Aug 05 - 03:42 PM

No copy listed at Library of Congress online catalogue. None adv. by book dealers through Abebooks.
These old songsters all got worn to tatters. A lucky find. Be sure and make a copy!

Norm Cohen has published an article on the Forget-Me-Not Songsters in American Music(23:2). (Thanks to Malcolm Douglas for the alert).

Subject: RE: Songbook: Looking for info on The Herald Songster
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 03:18 AM

I Googled, and this thread was the only Web page cited. Any new information on the Herald Songster. Dave, if you're still around, might you like to post songs from this like we did with the 'Old Put' Songsters?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Songbook: Looking for info on The Herald Songster
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 09:55 AM

For what it's worth (if there is any connection, it's pretty tenuous), the Montreal Family Herald and Weekly Star ran a regular feature, 'Old Favourites', from 1895 to 1968, and apparently published two folio anthologies (1898 and 1900), though under what titles I don't know. For more on the column and the songs it included, see Edith Fowke, "Old Favourites": A Selective Index in Canadian Journal for Traditional Music, 7, 1979.

Subject: RE: Songbook: Looking for info on The Herald Songster
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 08:48 AM

This is probably too late to help Dave Ruch, but if his historical society had a copy of the book in their library, then they surely had information about the book in their catalog. That's assuming the historical society acquired the book before the cover became illegible.

WorldCat finds nothing called "Herald Songster" either.