“Blue Nile”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1935
name: label: composer
content: Friend, Cliff
label: composer
content: Tobias, Charles
label: composer
content: Lombardo, Carmen
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Sparnon, Ken
label: publisher
content: Remick Music Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song “Blue Nile,” by Carmen Lombardo, Cliff Friend and Charles Tobias. It was published by Remick Music Corporation in New York, New York, in 1935. The cover features a photo of Ken Sparnon.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Kenneth H. Sparnon (1895-1972) was a pianist, organist, trombonist, and arranger who performed in vaudeville and in movie theater stage shows. He was also music director of radio stations in Syracuse and Rochester, New York and provided consultant services to radio music directors as an employee of the Broadcast Music Inc.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Sheet Music
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Arabella S. Sparnon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0797.04
label: accession number
content: 1980.0797
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0797.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sheet music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm