Piano Roll Collection, 1903-1957
Contents
- Collection Overview
- Scope and Contents
- Access Information
- Administrative Information
- Detailed Description
- Box & Folder Listing
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By Maristella Feustle
Collection Overview
Title: |
Piano Roll Collection, 1903-1957![]() |
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ID: | 06/ 024 |
Extent: | 4.0 Boxes |
Arrangement: | Boxes 1, 2, and 4 are arranged alphabetically by publisher, and by title under each publisher. Box 3 is arranged with stronger containers on the bottom. Rolls without containers are perpendicular to those with containers. |
Forms of Material: | Player piano music |
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The collection consists of four boxes of player piano rolls from various publishers. The rolls are primarily of popular music, but include some classical music as well.Access Information
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Administrative Information
Repository: | Music Library |
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Accruals: |
1 box from T. Luchsinger, May 6, 2014. 1 box from Historic Fort Worth, June 22, 2018. |
Finding Aid Revision History: | June 25, 2018. |
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Box and Folder Listing
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Box 1
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Barcode: 280068-
Item 1: That Tumble-Down Shack in Athlone, 1918
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Performer: Ted Baxter
Label: QRS Autograph Word Roll 771
Words by Richard Pascoe, Music by Monte Carlo and Alma M. Sanders. Waterson, Berlin & Snyder.
Box is labeled for "A Perfect Day."
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Item 2: Alabamy Bound, 1954
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Performer: J. Lawrence Cook.
Label: QRS Word Roll 9128
Shapiro & Bernstein Co.
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Item 3: By the Light of the Silv'ry Moon, 1942
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Performer: J. Lawrence Cook.
Label: QRS Word Roll 7664
Remick Music Corp.
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Item 4: Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider
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Performer: Max Kortlander
Label: QRS Word Roll 436
"Fox Trot."
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Item 5: I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl that Married Dear Old Dad), 1911
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Performer: J. Lawrence Cook
Label: QRS Word Roll 7218
Henry Von Tilzer.
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Item 6: Let Me Call You Sweetheart (I'm in Love with You)
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Performer: Frank Milne
Label: QRS Word Roll 2109
Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
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Item 7: I Wonder What's [Become of Sally], 1924
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Label illegible; remainder of title found in web search on label number.
Label: QRS Word Roll 2814
Attribution: Harold Scott, Jeff Watters (performer/authorship unclear)
Box is for "Hymn Medley."
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Item 8: Peg O' My Heart, 1947
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Performer: J. Lawrence Cook
Label: QRS Word Roll 8250
Leo Feist, Inc.
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Item 9: School Days
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Performer: Walter Redding
Label: QRS Word Roll 4236
Mills Music.
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Item 10: Sweet Adeline, 1903
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Performer: Ted Baxter
Label: QRS Word Roll 751
M. Witmark & Sons.
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Item 11: Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie, 1905
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Performer: Jeff Watters
Label: QRS Word Roll 7567
Harry Von Tilzer Music.
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Item 12: When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose
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Performer: J. Lawrence Cook
Label: QRS Word Roll 1435
Leo Feist, Inc.
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Item 13: Let Me Call You Sweetheart
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Label: US Word Roll 41851
By Whitson and Friedman; © Rossiter.
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Item 14: Yes Sir, That's My Baby, 1925
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Performer: Marg. Thompson
Label: Supertone / Sears Roebuck 5610
Irving Berlin, Inc.
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Item 15: Butterfly (Op. 43, No. 1)
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Performer: Eduard Grieg
Label: Welte Mignon Library C-1275 / DeLuxe Reproducing Roll Corporation, NY
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Item 16: Christmas Carols
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Label: Welte Mignon Library 6136 / DeLuxe Reproducing Roll Corporation, NY
Contains: Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Silent Night, Holy Night, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Joy of [sic] the World
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Item 17: Melody F major, Op. 3 (Rubinstein)
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Performer: Josef Hoffman
Label: Welte Mignon Library D660 / DeLuxe Reproducing Roll Corporation, NY
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Item 18: Rustle of Spring (Frühlingsrauschen, Sinding)
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Performer: Carl Wendling
Welte Mignon Library B-375 / DeLuxe Reproducing Roll Corporation, NY
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Item 19: Wonderful One, 1922
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Performer: Charles Rosoff
Label: Welte Mignon Library Y-6389 / DeLuxe Reproducing Roll Corporation, NY
Leo Feist.
Waltz.
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Item 20: I Want to Be Happy, 1924
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Performer: Howard Lutter
Label: Y-6789 / DeLuxe Reproducing Roll Corporation, NY
Harms.
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Box 2
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Barcode: 280060-
Item 1: Moonlight Sonata (Part II)
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Performer: Ignaz Jan Paderewski
Label: Welte Mignon Library 1246a / DeLuxe Reproducing Roll Corporation, NY
"To be delivered with 1246."
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Item 2: Pearls (Moret) : Novelette, 1918
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Performer: Nan Foster
Label: Welte Mignon Library X-6026 / DeLuxe Reproducing Roll Corporation, NY
Remick.
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Box 3
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Barcode: 713149-
Item 1: unidentified
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Very brittle paper. -
Item 2: unidentified
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Item 3: unidentified
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Allegro -
Item 4: unidentified
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Key of C -
Item 5: unidentified
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QRS Word Roll 43422. -
Item 6: unidentified
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Performers: Victor Arden and Max Kortlander. Label: QRS Word Roll. -
Item 7: Till We Meet Again, 1918
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Played by Kenison (?) and Markley. Label: Universal Song Roll 8156. Whiting; J.H. Remick & Co. -
Item 8: The Stars and Stripes Forever
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Performer: Walter Esberger. Label: Vocalstyle Song Roll 6012. John Philip Sousa. -
Item 9: Battlefield Echoes
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Composed and played with assistance by SA Perry. Label: Connorized 6392. -
Item 10: It's a Long Way to Dear Old Broadway, 1918
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Played by Erleback & Herzog. Label: Universal Song Roll 3069. Ereuer; Leo Feist, Inc. -
Item 11: Way Down South in Dixieland
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Item 12: Sarah Come Over Here
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Item 13: Sousa March Medley: 1. Washington Post; 2. El Capitan; 3. Semper Fideles; 4. Diplomat; 5. Invincible Eagle; 6. King Cotton
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No performer information. Label: Melodee 95615. -
Item 14: America Forever
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No performer information. Label: Majestic Hand-Played 1177. -
Item 15: The American Legion, 1919
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No performer information. Label: QRS Word Roll 1030. J. L. Shearer Music Co. Inc. -
Item 16: Hawaiian Twilight
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Performers: Harold Scott and Jeff Watters. Label: QRS, no number. -
Item 17: Hearts of America
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Played by Gardner & Morton. Label: Perfection 86930. -
Item 18: My Belgian Rose, 1918
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Performer: Theodore Morse. Label: Universal Song Roll 2973. Carton; Leo Feist, Inc. -
Item 19: I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, 1918
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Performer: Theodore Morse. Label: Universal Song Roll 2971. Clasi; Leo Feist, Inc. -
Item 20: Are You From Dixie
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Item 21: Estudiantina Waltzes
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Performer: Georges Favier. Label: Melodee 200245. Waldteufel. -
Item 22: Brown Eyes (Why Are You Blue?), 1925
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No performer information on label, possibly G.R. Kehoe. Label: Pianostyle Word Roll 26071. Waterson-Berlin-Snyder. -
Item 23: Are You Sorry That I'm Leaving, 1922
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Performers: Scott and Watters. Label: QRS Word Roll 2072. James W. Atkinson; Weile Pub. Co. -
Item 24: Dinah, 1925
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No performer information on label, possibly G.R. Kehoe. Label: Pianostyle Word Roll 27017. Waterson-Berlin-Snyder. -
Item 25: Hands Across the Sea
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No performer information. Label: 88 Note 102. The Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Indiana. Sousa. -
Item 26: Daydreams Waltz
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No performer information. Label: Eighty-Eight Note 91635. George Swift. -
Item 27: When You Come Back (And You Will Come Back, There's the Whole World Waiting for You), 1918
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Played by Herzog & Markley. Label: Universal Song Roll 3105. Cohan; M. Witmark & Sons. -
Item 28: Beautiful Ohio, 1918
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Performer: Fred Coats. Label: Universal Song Roll 3215. Earl; Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. -
Item 29: Down the Trail to Home Sweet Home, 1920
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No performer information. Label: Majestic Word Roll 7080. Ernest R. Ball; Witmark Co. -
Item 30: Love Bound, 1926
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No performer information on label, possibly G.R. Kehoe. Label: Pianostyle Word Roll 28092. Sam Fox Pub. Co. -
Item 31: Joanna, 1925
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Played by Sam A. Perry. Label: Connorized 7738. Robertson, Persell & Smith; Cleveland News. -
Item 32: It All Depends on You
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No performer information. Label: Imperial Songrecord 06437. DeSylva, Brown & Henderson. -
Item 33: At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home)
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No performer information. Label: Imperial Songrecord 06417. Feist. -
Item 34: Butterflies and Daisies - Hesitation Waltz
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No performer information. Label: Universal 301983. Rees. Box labeled The Whitney & Currier Co., Adams and Huron Sts, Toledo, Ohio. -
Item 35: Are You Lonesome To-Night?
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No performer information. Label: Imperial Songrecord 06555. Berlin. -
Item 36: Dreamy Hawaii
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No performer information. Label: Imperial Songrecord 06387. Conley. -
Item 37: Peggy O'Neil, 1921
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Played by Arden & Ohman. Label: QRS Word Roll 1488. Harry Pease, Ed. G. Nelson & Gilbert Dodge; Leo Feist, Inc. -
Item 38: Georgette, 1922
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No performer information on label, possibly Loraine. Label: Pianostyle Word Roll 15028. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc. -
Item 39: Hearts and Flowers
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No performer information. Label: Angelus Melodant Artistyle 88452. Moses-Tobani; The Wilcox & White Company, Meridien, Connecticut. -
Item 40: The Mystery of Night, 1925
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No performer information on label, possibly G.R. Kehoe. Label: Pianostyle Word Roll 24040. J.W. Jenkins' Sons Music Co. -
Item 41: Diamond Waltz
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No performer information. Label: Connorized 3779. D. Tripeppi.
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Box 4
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From Historic Fort Worth.Barcode: 713150-
Item 1: La Campanella - Etude, No. 3
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Paganini, transcription by Franz Liszt.
Performer: Arthur Friedheim.
Label: Duo-Art 6197-4.
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Item 2: Dawning, 1927
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Arrange and Played by Constance Mering.
Label: Duo-Art 713445.
Silver and Pinkard; Irving Berlin, Inc.
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Item 3: Just Another Day Wasted Away (Waiting for You), 1927
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Arranged and played by Freddie Rich.
Label: Duo-Art 713447.
Tobias & Turk; Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
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Item 4: Kammenoi-Ostrow, Op. 10, No. 22
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Composer: Anton Rubinstein.
Performer: Harold Bauer.
Label: Duo-Art 6057-4.
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Item 5: Lazy Weather, 1927
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Composed, arranged, and played by Peter DeRose.
Label: Duo-Art 713391.
Leo Feist, Inc.
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Item 6: My Garden of Memory, 1924
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Composed and performed by Pierre Connor.
Label: Duo-Art 102435.
Harold Flammer, Inc.
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Item 7: My Heart at Thy Dear Voice
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Camille Saint-Saens, Samson and Delila.
Performer: McNair Ilgenfritz.
Label: Duo-Art 59109.
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Item 8: An Old Guitar and an Old Refrain (A Song of Spain), 1927
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Arranged and played by Phil Ohman.
Label: Duo-Art 0469.
Kahn, Black & Moret; Villa Moret, Inc.
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Item 9: Pale Moon, 1920
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Performer: Vera Eakin.
Label: Duo-Art 11356.
Logan; Forster Music Pub. Co.
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Item 10: There Must Be a Silver Lining (That's Shining for Me), 1928
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Composed, arranged, and played by Walter Donaldson.
Label: Duo-Art 0485.
Leo Feist, Inc.
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Item 11: Valse D'Amour, Op. 57, No. 5
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Moritz Moszkowski.
Performed by Rudolf Ganz.
Label: Duo-Art 6418-3.
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Item 12: Where In the World (Is There Someone for Me), 1927
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Arranged and played by Constance Mering.
Label: Duo-Art 0474.
Lewis, Marks, Gill & Lombardo; Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
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Item 13: Why Do I Always Remember, 1926
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Performer: Constance Mering.
Label: Duo-Art 713257.
Gunsky, Bories & Coakley; Sherman Clay & Co.
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Item 14: Chloe, 1928
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Performer: J. Lawrence Cook.
Label: QRS 4136,
Copyright Moret.
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Item 15: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, 1957
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Performer: Tad Baxter
Label: QRS Word Roll 9575.
Chappell & Co., Inc.
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Item 16: Dollar-Walzer from Dollarprinzessin
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Barely legible stamped label. Music box or similar mechanical instrument roll.
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