“Don't Leave Me Mammy”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1927
name: label: publisher
content: Jerome H. Remick & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music for the song “Don't Leave Me Mammy" was written by Benny Davis and B. G. DeSylva and composed by Henry W. Santly and Con Conrad. The music was published by Remick and Co. of New York, New York in 1927. The cover features a photograph of Karyl Norman who called himself "The Creole Fashion Plate." Norman was an early vaudevillian who performed in drag, and called himself the “fashion plate” because the “template” sets the fashion trends and decides what is in vogue, and Norman wanted to be seen as trendy.
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0439.28
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0439.028
label: accession number
content: 1982.0439
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 1/4 in x 9 1/4 in; 31.115 cm x 23.495 cm