This week we have a nice lot of vintage sheet music booklets up for auction. Being a record store we're no experts on sheet music. But these were too nice to pass up. 1929 vintage 4 page UK print sheet music for the "Pre-Code" Metro Goldwyn-Mayer romantic musical film Chasing Rainbows The songs is: Happy Days Are Here Again Words by: Jack Yellen Music by: Milton Ager Conditon: the booklet is in a neat condition for it 's age. aging, a little spine and other mild wear, small pencil mark top right front. info: Chasing Rainbows is a 1930 American Pre-Code romantic musical film directed by Charles Reisner, starring Bessie Love and Charles King, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The supporting cast features Jack Benny, Marie Dressler, and Polly Moran. This was Jack Benny's first dramatic role in a motion picture. The movie introduced the song "Happy Days Are Here Again". Cast: Bessie Love as Carlie Seymour Charles King as Terry Fay Jack Benny as Eddie Rock Marie Dressler as Bonnie Polly Moran as Polly George K. Arthur as Lester Gwen Lee as Peggy Nita Martan as Daphne Wayne Eddie Phillips as Don Cordova Youcca Troubetzkov as Lanning Film preservation: Chasing Rainbows was mostly filmed in black and white, but had two Technicolor sequences. Today those sequences are lost (originally removed for a 1931 re-release and destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire), but the rest of the movie survives. It has been issued on DVD in the Warner Archive Collection. The lost sequences, with only the sound still existent on Vitaphone disks, include the "Happy Days Are Here Again" performance. Song info: "Happy Days Are Here Again" is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and published by EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc./Advanced Music Corp. The song was recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, with Lou Levin, vocal (November 1929), and was featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows. The song concluded the picture, in what film historian Edwin Bradley described as a "pull-out-all-the-stops Technicolor finale, against a Great War Armistice show-within-a-show backdrop". This early example of two-strip Technicolor footage was, along with another Technicolor sequence, later cut from the 1931 re-edited release of the otherwise black-and-white film, and is believed to have been lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire. Shipping costs: Worldwide shipping: $11.50 - for 1 to maybe 8 booklets (depending on the thickness) jazz, ragtime, cake walk, black americana, pre-war music, music hall, tin pan alley, musical theatre, weimar republic, cabarets, cabaret, Josephine baker, Folies Bergère, Moulin Rouge, string bands, dance orchestra, shellac, 78 rpm, Phonograph cylinder, hollywood, silent film, early film collectables |