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THE ART OF MUSIC: Raymond 'Ray' Craig Parmelee 1882- ?
Lewis Hall, Charles Prentice, Theodore Hudson, Theodore, Abraham, Abraham, Isaac, John, John
Click on the picture to hear a snippet of the song. | 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" Music: Maurice Spitalny | "Cactus and the Rose" Music: M.T. Bohannon | "Miss Columbia" Music: James C. Osbourne | "I Love a Little Cottage" 1922 |
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| "Dixie Beauty" Music: Tod S. Barron | "Footloose" Music: Carl Rupp | "In the Heart of the Hills" 1926 | "Honeymoon Rag" Music: Abe Olman |
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| "Valse June" 1914 | "Karzan" 1919 | "Parting Kiss" Music: Maurice Spitalny W | "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" Music: Leo Friedman |
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| "Valse Rose" Music: Lionel Baxter | "Co-ed" Music: J.S. Zamecnik | "Camellia" 1907 | "Taxi" 1919 |
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| "Me-ow": One Step 1918 | "Swanne Rose" Music: J.S. Zamecnik | ||
