Bringing vintage songs back to life
This main site has more than 7,000 songs. The titles are in alphabetical order. Click a title to see the sheet music, listen, read lyrics, sing along or play along. For the music by itself, download the MIDI. Enjoy and share.
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Considered the first full-time songwriter in the U.S., Stephen Foster began churning them out in 1844. His total output was 285 compositions. Listen to them here.
Continue reading “Stephen Foster songs”Below are mp3s for the songs in an amazing book from Dover Publications. This book started the sheet music singer project.
The files were made by Werner Tomaschewski of Germany. His website was called Stephen Foster American Dreams. It is no longer online but we present his work here. Most of these songs are also in our long song list.
Continue reading “Popular Songs of Nineteenth Century America – audios”Look in your Google folder for the Google Drive phone app. It has a document scanner built-in. The icon is a purple camera button. This is free to use.
Snap the sheet music cover in color. Then use the B&W filter to make the music pages clearer. Each page can be reframed and rotated as you go. All these snaps become a pdf which you can share.
Used in “ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND,” 1938 film.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Copyright ©27 Jul 1925.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Lyrics
Chorus
Remember the night, the night you said
“I love you”, remember?
Remember you vowed by all the stars
Above you, remember?
Remember we found a lonely spot
And after I learned to care a lot
You promised that you’d forget me not
But you forgot to remember