“Meet Me in the Moonlight”
date: label: publishing date
content: 1937
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Sparnon, Ken
label: lyricist
content: Dillon, Will S.
label: lyricist
content: Ernie, Val
label: lyricist
content: Neri, Ennio
label: composer
content: Mascheroni, Vittorio
label: lyricist
content: Buza, Mario
label: lyricist
content: Stillman, Al
label: publisher
content: Vogel Music Co., Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music is for the song “Meet Me in the Moonlight,” with original Italian lyrics by Ennio Neri and Mario Buza and music by Vittorio Mascheroni. The American version was written by Al Stillman, Will S. Dillon, and Val Ernie. It was published with arrangement with Carisch, S.A. Milano, by Jerry Vogel Music Company Inc., in 1937. The cover has a red-brown pastoral setting with a couple embracing on a hill looking at the moon in a blue sky, with an inset 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: 1980.0797.05
label: accession number
content: 1980.0797
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0797.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: leaflet
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