Kay Kyser's Musical Class [Songbook]

Miller Music Corp. sheet music. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Miller Music Corp [Published date: 1939]. Sheet music, piano, vocals, chords. Paper covers, 56 pp. Compiled and Edited by Irving Lehrer. In acceptable condition. Pink and grey pictorial paper covers have a slits running along the spine from the top and bottom of the fold to the staples and light creasing to edges and corners. Moderate overall scuffing and spotting as well. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Contents include: SWEET AND LOVELY, THE LITTLE RED FOX (N'ya N'ya Ya Can't Catch Me), MY BLUE HEAVEN, I'M A DING DONG DADDY (From Dumas), I'M SORRY I MADE YOU CRY, M I S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I, THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, O KATHARINA!, IF I HAD YOU, SLEEPY TIME GAL, LI'L LIZA JANE, FIVE FOOT TWO, EYES OF BLUE, I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, STUMBLING, I MISS MY SWISS [From inside of front cover] Tin Pan Alley is jammed tight as a drum with bandleaders, but Kay Kyser stands out like the slip-end of a trombone. For Kay is not merely a stick-waver. He is just as much an entertainment personality as is Jack Benny, Carole Lombard, or Fred Astaire. The secret of Kay's musical success is his showmanship. The grinning, bespectacled maestro, with the pleasing Carolina drawl, deplored the general practice of bandleaders who stood woodenly before their orchestras and who acted merely as co-ordinators for the different sections of the band. He injected into his own aggregation a bit of the Kay Kyser personality. He announces his own programs, sings occasional novelty choruses, heckles dancers and musicians alike, and in general sees that everybody has a good time. His "College of Musical Knowledge" has become a national institution, like Spin the Bottle and Santa Claus. This book offers what might be termed the "Cavalcade of Kay Kyser." In the pages to follow we salute this likeable, laughable "Professor" by presenting some of his favorite songs - and, we believe, YOUR favorites, too - we introduce you to his merry, musical associates: to Ginny Simms, and Harry Babbitt, and Sully Mason, and Ish Kabibble - the whole gang of Kay Kyser funsters. We hope you will get as much fun out of reading the album as we had in compiling it.