Bringing vintage songs back to life
Look in your Google folder for the Google Drive phone app. It has a document scanner built-in. The icon is a purple camera button. This is free to use.
Snap the sheet music cover in color. Then use the B&W filter to make the music pages clearer. Each page can be reframed and rotated as you go. All these snaps become a pdf which you can share.
Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©27 Jul 1925.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Chorus
Remember the night, the night you said
“I love you”, remember?
Remember you vowed by all the stars
Above you, remember?
Remember we found a lonely spot
And after I learned to care a lot
You promised that you’d forget me not
But you forgot to remember
Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©23 Jul 1918.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Chorus
“Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning
Oh! how I’d love to remain in bed
For the hardest blow of all
Is to hear the bugler call
You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up
You’ve got to get up this morning
Some day I’m going to murder the bugler
Some day they’re going to find him dead
I’ll amputate his reveille
And step upon it heavily
And spend the rest of my life in bed”
Chorus
“Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning
Oh! how I’d love to remain in bed
For the hardest blow of all
Is to hear the bugler call
You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up
You’ve got to get up this morning
Oh! boy the minute the battle is over
Oh! boy the minute the foe is dead
I’ll put my uniform away
And move to Philadelphia
And spend the rest of my life in bed”
Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©22 Sep 1933.
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Never saw you look quite so pretty before
Never saw you dressed quite so lovely, what’s more
I could hardly wait to keep our date
This lovely Easter morning
And my heart best fast
As I came through the door, for
Chorus
In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it
You’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade
I’ll be all in clover, and when they look you over
I’ll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us
And you ‘ll find that you’re in the rotogravure
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet
And of the girl I’m taking to the Easter Parade
(Down on the Farm).
Used in M-G-M Musical Film “EASTER PARADE,) 1948.
From “STOP, LOOK, LISTEN,” 1915.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©30 Jul 1914.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
I Want To Go Back To Michigan – MIDIDOWNLOAD
Lyrics
1. I was born in Michigan, and I wish and wish again
That I was back in the town where I was born
There’s a farm in Michigan, and I’d like to fish again
In the river that flows beside the fields of waving corn
A lonesome soul am I, here’s the reason why
Chorus
I want to go back, I want to go back
I want to go back to the farm
Far away from harm, with a milk pail on my arm
I miss the rooster, the one that useter
Wake me up at four a.m.
I think your great big city’s very pretty
Never-the-less I want to be there
I want to see there
A certain some one full of charm
That’s why I wish again, that I was in Michigan
Down on the farm
2. You can keep your cabarets, where they turn nights into days
I’d rather be where they go to bed at nine
I’ve been gone for seven weeks, and I’ve lost my rosy cheeks
That’s the reason I’d rather have the country life for mine
My thoughts are far away, that’s just why I say
Sung here by Fred Feild: