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"Breezy Broadway Medley" Tunes Identified
By Robbie Rhodes

Matthew Caulfield asked me to provide all the tune names in the
"Breezy Broadway Medley" and others have inquired about differing
roll numbers.  Here's the information supplied by our readers.

  Breezy Broadway Medley [Overture]
  Arranged by Herman Avery Wade
(0:00)  1. Oh, You Beautiful Doll (Nat D. Ayer)
(0:31)  2. Gee, But I Like Music With My Meals (Nat D. Ayer)
(1:03)  3. Red Rose Rag (Percy Wenrich)
(1:25)  4. Take Me Back To The Garden of Love (Nat. Osborne)
(2:03)  5. That College Rag (Albert von Tilzer)
(2:39)  6. Ragtime Violin (Irving Berlin)
(3:01)  7. A Girlie Was Just Made To Love (George W. Meyer)
(3:34)  8. Everybody's Doin' It Now (Irving Berlin)
(4:06)  9. The Gaby Glide (Louis A. Hirsch)
(4:48) 10. I Want a Girl (Harry Von Tilzer)
(5:26  end of performance)

Author credits (only the music composers are shown) were found
at the web site of the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection,
http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/advancedsearch.html  All songs
were copyrighted in 1911 and Alan Mueller's catalog data suggests
that the piano roll was issued early in 1912.

The digits on the left are the beginning times (minutes:seconds)
displayed in the MIDI file player window of many web browser
'helper' programs and media player computer programs.

According to Alan Mueller's research and the data published in his
"Catalog of Metrostyle-Themodist and Metro-Art Music Rolls" of July,
1915, the different roll formats bear these catalog numbers on the
box label:

 98492 Breezy Broadway Medley Overture -- Aeolian Metrostyle-Themodist
 98495 Breezy Broadway Medley -- Universal 88-note
101452 Breezy Broadway Medley -- Universal 65-note

Alan says the Metrostyle-Themodist version usually cost more than the
other formats.  Ken Vinen's roll, made by Universal Music Company of
Canada, bears price codes "7" and "P" on the box label.

Jerry Bacon says his roll, made by Universal Music Co. of New York,
is titled "Breezy Broadway Medley", without "Overture" in the title.

Hear the MIDI file at http://mmd.foxtail.com/Sounds/JBRoth/Aeo/index.html
(We must change the roll number on the recreated box label image
presently shown there.

Cheers,

Robbie Rhodes
Etiwanda, Calif.


(Message sent Wed 2 Jun 2004, 03:40:57 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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