"I'll Be Seeing You"
date: label: publishing date
content: 1938
name: label: lyricist
content: Kahal, Irving
label: composer
content: Fain, Sammy
label: performer; depicted (sitter)
content: Hildegarde
label: publisher
content: Williamson Music Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This sheet music for the song “I'll Be Seeing You,” written by Irving Kahl and composed by Sammy Fain, was published by Williamson Music, Inc. in New York, New York, in 1938. The cover features a photograph of Hildegarde over a sketch of an outdoor café at nighttime. Hildegarde was an extremely popular club singer in the middle of the 20th century, called “the first lady of supper clubs” by Eleanor Roosevelt.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Singer-pianist Hildegarde (Hildegarde Loretta Sell) was a native of Adell, Wisconsin. She was in turn, a youthful Milwaukee pianist in a silent movie house, a member of a male orchestra that toured vaudeville, a member of the Grand Quartette (or, Jerry & Her Baby Grands) and an accompanist for many other vaudeville acts. She was also part of Gus Edwards' touring troupe as a child "immigrant" who danced and sang "Dutch" songs. Between 1933 and 1936 she worked in London on radio and in clubs and cabarets, recording her first vocal in 1933. Late in 1936 she began appearing on American radio broadcasts and in U.S. hotels and clubs. From 1943 to 1946 she starred in her own radio programs and again appeared as a top-billed club performer in New York and other cities. She continued European and American engagements in clubs and television through the 1970s.</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
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content: Sheet Music
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hildegarde
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0403.08
label: accession number
content: 1980.0403
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0403.08
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