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Contributor:
Louis Gilrod, David Meyerowitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1911
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Eddie Cantor, Harry Ruby
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1918
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Sheet music for “Broadway’s Not a Bad Place after All” from the theatrical revue Ziegfield Follies.
Contributor:
Eddie Cantor, Harry Ruby
Date:
1918
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Open your mouth
To feed that flesh
Your teeth have bled
Tongue us out
Bone by bone
Do not allow
Man to be fed
By bread alone
“And He afflicted thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with…
Contributor:
Samuel Menashe
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Sheet music for “Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars,” a comic song about a Jewish businessman on his deathbed trying to collect money owed him. “Yiddish dialect songs” were popular performance pieces…
Contributor:
Irving Berlin
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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I do not believe in free love.
There is legal marriage, an institution based on ideas and pretenses.
A legally married wife you can divorce, but where will you run away from free love?
As for…
Contributor:
Moyshe Nadir
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Cover of sheet music for “Sadie Salome, Go Home.” Fanny Brice (1891–1951) was born Fania Borach in New York City to immigrants from Hungary and Alsace respectively. Getting her break in entertainment…
Contributor:
Edgar Leslie, Irving Berlin, Artist Unknown
Date:
1909
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[…] In my confusion
I didn’t know how to answer my detractors, those
who brand me
a poseur because I pronounce the c in the Castilian manner or I say fellow instead of guy (I love)
miscegenations
(pe…
Contributor:
José Kozer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1983