“Why is The Moon Always Shining”
date: label: recording date
content: 1922
name: label: publisher
content: Schenectady Music Publishers
notes: label: Description
content: This sheet music for the song "Why Is the Moon Always Shining (When I Want to Love My Girl)" was written and composed by Mary E. Flynn, Stephen St. John and Frank Davis. The music was published by the Schenectady Music Publication Company of Schenectady, New York in 1922. The cover contains an illustration of a couple in a blue night canoodling under the moonlight of a winking moon. The cover also features a photograph of the Zita Orchestra on the bottom right, who “featured” the song in Albany, New York.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Schenectady
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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: 1982.0439.25
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0439.25
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 in x 9 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 23.495 cm