"If the World Were Full of Durantes"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1951
name: label: composer; lyricist
content: Cantor, Eddie
label: composer; lyricist
content: Tobias, Charlie
label: performer
content: Durante, Jimmy
label: publisher
content: Tobias and Lewis
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music for the song “If the World Were Full of Durantes” was written by Eddie Cantor and Charlie Tobias. The sheet music was published by Tobias and Lewis of New York, New York in 1951. The cover features a dark red and white collage of photos of Jimmy Durante. Durante was an early American multi-media star, performing in vaudeville, radio, stage, television, and movies from the 1920s-1960s.
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 Jimmy Durante Children's Fund (through Robert Romano)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0121.01
label: accession number
content: 1981.0121
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0121.01
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 in x 9 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm