This main site has more than 7,000 songs. The titles are in alphabetical order. Click a title to see the sheet music, listen, read lyrics, sing along or play along. For the music by itself, download the MIDI. Enjoy and share.
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I have a couple of questions. On the MIDI files, do you play those yourself or do you have a music program that scans and plays them? If so, which program do you use? Also, I have some sheet music books with old songs in them. Would you still be interested in them, even though they don’t all have sheet music covers for them (or have them in black and white)? Thanks!
Our MIDIs are all put in by people. Scanning doesn’t work well enough. Yes, we are interested in sheet music even without covers.
Hi there! Wanted to start off by saying that I’m a big fan of your work as a history nerd as well as someone who is rediscovering their love for piano!
Was wondering whether you would entertain my song request as listed in the title 🙂
This is where I got the PDF from, it’s from the US Library of Congress’ official site. But you can just search via Google (in case you don’t trust the link haha)
https://www.loc.gov/resource/music.musihas-100007891/?sp=1&r=-0.32,-0.005,1.745,1.463,0
Merry Xmas and Happy New Years!
Cheers.
Thank you! I’m in love with the piano and all books and movies about pianos.
If I may request a couple of tunes for you to publish if possible.
Emily and Love Letters (straight from your heart)
Thanks
ps Amazing sight
Sure. Please send sheet music.
I’m really happy that Fred’s getting these songs active again. After I listen to “Sheet Music Singer”, I try to find in on the web and it’s not there. This is one of the best channels I’ve found, and I’m subscribed to thousands. Thank you, Sir !!!
Fred (and cohorts) – you are fantastic!
To find and preserve such a catalog is such a worthy quest. The Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts (NYC) has many resources for musical research – but I don’t think they have the American popular music anthology that you’ve collected. Bravo to you for preserving these and making them so accessible. You bring joy to so many.
Thank you and “well done!”
Dennis
Thank you for this wonderful collection. I had been searching for ” Wagon Wheels ” on the internet and stumbled across this website.
Such fun to find these gems!
I just discovered your site after looking through at least 10 Readers Digest Songbooks to fin “Heart of My Heart” that a friend had remembered from family gatherings listening to/singer with her mom who played it. And there is was……..in your list. Thank you. Once you hear it again you’ll hum it all day!
Greetings and hello!
I bumped into your YT page a few years ago, and your URL a time after that. I love the old stuff! If I may I want to ask you to perform a song c. 1931.
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams.
Thanks in advance.
Greg in Baltimore.
I don’t have the sheet music for that one. Do you?
hello
I stumbled across your site last night* and was happily looking through the list on the right, thinking “great, a modest but well-presented and very useful collection” when I realised how the alphabetisation worked… and that I wasn’t even onto the As yet! And then I realised how many As there were, and read that the collection includes nearly 5000 songs. I am absolutely staggered by the scope and quality of what you have put together here, and the labour you’ve put into it. This is going to give me many hours of pleasant and profitable browsing. The scans alone are a treasure trove, with their beautiful artwork, but the MIDI files and recordings make this one of the most impressive and useful musical resources I’ve found anywhere. Whoever you are, Fred, I salute you and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
* let’s just say I got to bed very late.
Hello I just recently found this amazing website that you have here and I’m going through and doing a song for each letter of the alphabet and I’ll probably double up and do it again because I’m having so much fun and I’m doing it on Instagram @metroblock1 . I hope it’s okay that I’m taking these songs and doing it like that I would share it to some sort of group YouTube but I’m so technologically illiterate that I don’t know how to use YouTube but I have thousands of cover songs that I do on Instagram and I’m doing a lot of these and I’m having so much fun as I said before so if you’re interested and seeing what I’m doing with these songs follow me on Instagram
I love your videos. I have been researching silent film accompaniments and your recordings of some of the songs listed in the musical suggestions (cue sheets) are incredibly helpful! Thank you so much for your work on this.
Hello,
I’ve only just discovered your brilliant site. I’ve listened to some of your songs that came up on YouTube but didn’t realize you had such a fantastic archive.
For a while my wife and I have been trying to sing old songs (accompanied on ukulele) from a book of music hall songs she was given at the school she used to work in. It has the sheet music and words, but many of the songs we only recognise from the choruses, so being able to listen to versions like yours, with the verses clearly sung, is invaluable in working out how we want to approach them.
There’s one song we’ve tried that doesn’t seem to be in your list – “I’ll Be Your Sweetheart” by Harry Dacre (1899) – is this one you have a version of?
Anyway, thanks for providing such a great site.
Gordon & Jan (from Dorset, England)
Thank you. I don’t have access to that song I’ll Be Your Sweetheart. If you send the sheet music pages to screamnj@msn.com I can sing that as a request. We are building the site as large as we can. Fred Feild