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THE
ART OF MUSIC: Ray Parmelee
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Today virtually every American home has at least
one television. In the 1930s and '40s, that space in the
living room would have been occupied by a radio. And in
generations of American homes before that, there would
have been a piano.
Music stores sold sheet music the way that today's -- well, those that haven't succumed to the Internet -- sell CDs. Artist Ray Parmelee was well known as a sheet music artist, providing art for everything from John Philip Sousa marches to the Wedding March -- and a lot of schmaltz in between. I've culled these examples of his art over the years from items sold on the Internet. |
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| "Flashing
Eyes"
1908 |
"La
Rosita"
Music: Paul Dupont |
"Army
and Navy March"
Music: Edmund Braham |
"Sesqui-Centennial
Exposition March"
Music: John Phillip Sousa |
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| "Broken
Dreams"
Words: Harry D. Kerr |
"Cactus and the Rose" | "Miss Columbia" | "I Love a
Little Cottage"
1922 |
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| "Dixie
Beauty"
Music: Tod S. Barron |
"Footloose"
Words: Hal Cochran |
"In the
Heart of the Hills"
1926 |
"Honeymoon
Rag"
Music: Abe Olman |
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| "Valse
June"
1914 |
"Karzan"
1919 |
"Parting
Kiss"
Words: Harold Berg |
"The Rough
Riders March"
1927 |
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| "Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine March"
1923 |
"Skylark"
1913 |
"Wedding
March"
Music: Paul Dupont |
"Sonoma: My
Mexicana Rose"
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| "Valse
Rose"
Music: Lionel Baxter |
"Co-ed"
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"Camellia"
1907 |
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