"The Moon Shines on the Moonshine"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1920
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Williams, Bert
label: publisher
content: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music for the song "The Moon Shines on the Moonshine” was composed by Robert Hood Bowers with lyrics by Francis DeWitt, and published by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc., in New York, New York, in 1920.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>There is an image of American entertainer and comedian Bert Williams on the cover. The cover indicates: "...Sung with Sensational Success by Bert Williams. Sensational song hit of Ziegfeld Jr's Ziegfeld Follies."</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The song, among the most popular in The Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, laments the closure of liquor distilleries and breweries while celebrating the illicit production of moonshine "in the mountain tops, far from the eyes of cops." The song became a hit the same year that the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages, was ratified into law. Williams recorded the anti-prohibition anthem for Columbia Records and it sold over 250,000 copies, one of his best-selling releases and biggest hits of the era.</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: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0018.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0018
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0018.01
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 3/8 in; 31.115 cm x 23.8125 cm