Although this collection spans 1890 to 1997, most of the sheet music was copyrighted before the 1940s. Also included is a photograph of a piece of music and a small music book with no copyright. Roughly half of the songs are related to the moon in some way. There is a variety of different types of dances, such as fox trots, two steps, or waltzes, but not much variety in theme. Most pieces are love songs, with a few comic ones interspersed.
Series 1: Romantic songs – separated by year, then categorized alphabetically.
Series 2: Moon songs – because there is such a large quantity of these, they are separated from the other pieces. Like the other songs, the are categorized by year, followed by alphabetical ordering.
Series 3: Undated Music and Sheet Music Cover
Josephine Walls Shinholser, a Williamsburg, Va. resident, was born on December 18, 1934 and for over fifty years was married to Jack Wilson Shinholser who passed away in 2011.
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This collection is phenomenal for anyone who is looking into romantic music from this time period, especially songs about the moon. The cover art is particularly fascinating because it demonstrates major changes over time. Changes exist not just in style, but also in beauty standards for both men and women. Also, quite a few of the songs are fairly racist. Many of these pieces are about the South, but songs concerning other countries can be racist as well.
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Songs include: "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" "I've a Longing in My Heart for You, Louise." "Love Will Find a Way" "Because You Were an Old Sweetheart of Mine" "On a Saturday Night Waltz" "Come to Town with Me Jane"
Songs include: "Because of You" "Bessie" "Longing" "Nellie Darling" "Kisses" "I Can Never Find Another Girl Like You" "I'd Like to Be a Little Boy Again" "Josie" "Looking for Sunshine" "Two Favorite Songs: Just Beyond the Vale of Years and Some Other Day"
Songs Include: "Home, Home, Dear Home." "I Love You As the Sunshine Loves the Day" "Since Nellie Went Away" "Somebody Loves Somebody" "Some Day You'll Know I Loved You" "The Spring Chicken" "You Can't Give Your Heart to Somebody Else" "You Mustn't Be Gone Too Long"
Songs include: "How'd You Like to Be My Wife" "If Everybody's Happy Why Then Be Good to Me" "When the Bloom Is on the Clover Molly Dear" "You're the Only Girl I Love" "Have You Got Another Girl at Home LIke Mary? "I'm Always Dreaming of You, Little Girl." "Let's Go Home" "Those Were the Happy Days" "When We're Together"
Songs Include: "Carrie or Carrie Marry Harry" "Lady Love" "Molly Lee" "My Old Girl" "When I Fell in Love with You" "When the Right Girl Comes Along" "When You Dream of Someone and Someone Dreams of You" "You Can't Stop Me from Loving You"
Songs Include: "Don't Say Good-Bye" "Love Dreams" "Montana" "Will You Really Promise Me?" "Winter" "Would You Be Satisfied with Me, My dear" "April" "Won't You Come Back?" "You'll Want Me Back"
Songs Include: "Do You Think Dreams Ever Come True?" "Love Is All I Ask" "Honey Behave" "There's a Girl in the Heart of Maryland (With a Heart That Belongs to Me)" "The Wonderful Way You Love" (two copies) "You Were All I Had"
Songs Include: "Back to the Carolina You Love" "Everybody Loves My Girl" "Good-Bye" "I Found You Among the Roses" "Mary, You're a Little Bit Old-Fashioned" "She's Watching and Waiting for Me" "When You Taught Me the Meaning of Love" "You're Breaking My Aching Heart
Songs Include: "Are You from Dixie? ('Cause I'm from Dixie, Too!)" - racist lyrics and cover art "To Lou" "When Someone Dreams of Someone" "Why Shouldn't I Love You"
Songs Include: "Baby Shoes" "Come Back to Arizona" - two copies "Fill All My Life with Love" "I'm on the Road to Happiness" "Li'l Liza Jane" "She Is the Sunshine of Virginia" "Smiles, Then Kisses" "They're Wearing 'Em HIgher in Hawaii"
Songs Include: "Lonesome Girl" "Lorraine - My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine" - WWI song with two copies "They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me" "Beautiful Ohio" "Kentucky Dream" "Kentucky Was Lucky (When She Raised a Girl Like You)" "K-K-K-Katy" - Very popular WWI song "Our Yesterdays" "You're Still an Old Sweetheart of Mine"
Songs Include: "Alabama Lullaby" "All for You" "Carolina Sunshine" "Down Kentucky Way: A Darkey Lullaby" - predictably racist "I Don't Want to Love No One But You" "Irene" - two identical copies "Jerry" "Just a Dream of Old Kentucky" "Longing" "Oh! What a Pal Was Mary" "Peggy" "Sometime You'll Come Again" "That's Worth While Waiting For" "Tell Me Why"
Songs Include: "Do You Ever Think of Me" "Margie" "My Jo" "When I Looked in Your Wonderful Eyes" "Carolina Lullaby" "Cherie" "Delaware" "Isle of View" "Leave Me with a Smile" "My Carolina Rose" "Rosemary" - two identical copies "Sighing Just for You" "Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes" - two identical copies "Which Hazel?"
Songs Include: "All for the Love of Mike" "Carry Me Back to My Carolina Home" "Georgette" "George White's Scandals" "I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again To-Morrow" "Polly" "The Flirt" "First, Last and Always (I Love You)" "I'm Goin' South" "Maggie! 'Yes Ma'am' (Come Right Up Stairs)" "Mamma Loves Papa Papa Loves Mamma" "Oh! Harold" "So Long Kitty" "Until To-Morrow (Hasta Manana)" "A Smile Will Go a Long Long Way" "Watchin' the Moon Rise"
Songs Include: "Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)" "Blue-Eyed Sally" "Me and the Boy Friend" "Oh Miss Hannah" - appears to be the back cover of another song "I Wonder What's Become of Sally" "Wait'll You See My Gal" "Does Your Mother Know You're Out Cecilia" "Creep into My Arms" "Nora Lee" "Sandy" "Smile a Little Bit" "So That's the Kind of a Girl You Are"
Songs Include: "George White's Scandals" "I Never See Maggie Alone" "Say It Again" "Forget the Past" "If You See Sally" "It's a Million to One You're in Love" "My Ohio Home" "Show Boat" "A Sweetheart's Prayer" "There's Too Many Eyes That 'Wanna' Make Eyes at Two Pretty Eyes I Love" "I'm Sorry, Sally" "You Don't Like It - Not Much"
Songs Include: "Alice" "The Grand Parade" "Singin' in the Bathtub" "Congratulations" "You're Driving Me Crazy" "A Vision of Virginia" "Just a Blue Eyed Blonde" "Just One More Chance" "Sunshine and Happiness"
Songs Include: "Here Is My Heart" "M'Hoss M'Dog an'Me" "My Nancy Rose" "In a Little Gypsy Tea Room" "The Goose Hangs High" "Mistress Pretty" "On Your Toes" "It's Love I'm After" "Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey" "My Prayer"
Songs Include: "Eloise" "Just a Little Bit South of North Carolina" "Daddy" "Wait for Me Mary" "Idaho" "Bell Bottom Trousers" "Chickery Chick" "That Dear Old Dad of Mine" "One-zy, Two-zy (I Love You-zy)" "My Coloring Book" "I've Been a Bad, Bad Boy" "When You Believe (From the Prince of Egypt)"
Songs Include: "Roll on Silver Moon" "Moonlight Fancies" "When the Moon Makes Dreamy Eyes" "Let Us Swear It by the Pale Moonlight" "Moonlight Caprice" "Moon Moths"
Songs Include: "Moonlight" "Moonlight on the Lake" "'Neath the Silv'ry Moon" "Moonbeams on the Lake" "Moon-Shine"
Songs Include: "Laughing Moon" "Moon Kisses" "When It's Moonlight Mary Darling 'Neath the Old Grape Arbor Shade" "When the Moon Plays Peek-A-Boo" "Blinking Moon" "Farewell Mr. Moon" "Moonlight on the River"
Songs Include: "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" "I Used to Sigh for the Silvery Moon" "Lonesome Moonlight" "The Moonlight Party" "Moonlight Waltzes" "Oh! That Moonlight Glide" "Spooning in the Moonlight" "Under the Southern Moon" "Venetian Moon" "When the Moon Swings Low" "Smiling Moon"
Songs Include: "By the Light of the Jungle Moon" - very racist "Fairy Moon" - two copies with two different covers "I Love You Mister Moon" "Lonesome Moon" "Lovey Moon" "Moonlight Bay" "Teasing Moon" "Tennesse Moon" "Under the Big September Moon"
Songs include: "Just Close Your Eyes Big Moon" "The Spooney Moon" "By the Light of the Moon" "Meet Me 'Neath the Persian Moon" "Moonlight on the Ocean" "Rose of the Moonlight"
"Dance of the Moon Birds" "Don't Blame Me for What Happens in the Moonlight" "Moonbeams Bring Love Dreams" "Moon Dreams" "Roll Along Harvest Moon" "Underneath the Southern Moon" "Underneath the Summer Moon" "(Under the Mellow) Arabian Moon" "What's the Good of Moonlight" "When the Moon Shines Down on Lonesome Town"
Songs include: "The Moon and the Waterfall" "Moonlight Shadows" - two copies with slightly different covers "Under the Bright Autumn Moon" "Dreamy Moon" "Moon-Glo" "When I Dream in the Moonlight of You"
Songs include: "Egyptian Moonlight" "The Hudson by Moonlight" "Maid of the Moon" "Moonlight Down in Dixie" "Moonlight on the Nile" "The New Moon" "Under the Golden China Moon" "When I Dream in the Moonlight of You" "Wishing Moon"
Songs include: "Alabama Moon" "China Moon" "In the Glow of the Harvest Moon" "The Night the Moon and You" "Pale Moon an Indian Love Song" - fairly racist "Song of the Moonlight" "Spanish Moon" "Underneath the Moon" "When the Harvest Moon is Shining"
Songs include: "In the Shadow of the Moonlight" "June Moon" "Melancholy Moon" "Moonbeams" "Moonlight" "Moonlight Glow" "Moonlight Land" "Once in a Blue Moon" "My Gypsy Moon" "Swanee River Moon" - two copies withtwo different covers
Songs include: "Georgia Moon" "Red Moon" - two copies with different covers "Underneath the Mellow Moon" - two copies with the same cover "Why Is the Moon Pale" "Indiana Moon" "Misty Moon" "Persian Moon" "River Shannon Moon" "Sahara Moon"
Songs include: "Moonlight and You" "Moonlight Memories" "My Dream Moon" - two copies with the same cover "A Waltz in the Moonlight and You" "Blinkey Moon" "Dreamy Carolina Moon" "Moonlight and Roses" "The Moonlight, a Waltz, and You" "Moonlight in Mandalay" "Waitin' for the Moon"
Songs include: "Chinese Moon" - racist "Cryin' for the Moon" "Half a Moon (Is Better Than No Moon)" - two copies with the same cover, but different advertisements on the back "I Never Knew What the Moonlight Could Do" "Lover Moon" "Moonlight on the Ganges" "Reaching for the Moon" "Take in the Sun Hang out the Moon" "Talking to the Moon" "You'll Like That Dreamy Moon"
Songs include: "At Moonrise" "Meet Me in the Moonlight" "Moonlight Lane" "Moonlight Waters" "Oriental Moonlight" "Silver Moon" - two copies with two different covers "Under the Moon (yoo-oo-oo-oo)" - two copies with the same front cover, but material on the back is different
Songs include: "Carolina Moon" - two copies, but one only has the front cover "Get out and Get under the Moon" "Keep Sweeping the Cobwebs off the Moon" "Lonesome in the Moonlight" "Me and the Man in the Moon" "Moonbeam Kiss Her for Me" "Moonbeams" - two copies with two different covers "Moon Girl of Mine" "The New Moon" - is actually a musical, and two songs from that are included "One Kiss" and "Lover Come Back to Me"
Songs include: "I Used to Love Her in the Moonlight but She's in the Limelight Now" "The Moonlight March" "Underneath the Russian Moon" - two identical copies "Under a Texas Moon" "Montana Moon" "Pagan Moon" "Blue Kentucky Moon" "Hiding in the Shadows of the Moon" "I Thank You Mr. Moon" "Makin' Faces at the Man in the Moon" "There Ought to Be a Moonlight Saving Time" - two copies with the same cover, but different advertisements on the back "Wabash Moon" "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain"
Songs include: "Moonlight for Two" "Moonlight on the River" "Moon Song that Wasn't Meant for Me" - two identical copies "Neath the Silv'ry Moon" "Rock-a-Bye Moon" "Same Old Moon" "Stop the Sun, Stop the Moon (My Man's Gone)" "Black Moonlight" "Honeymoon (The Waning Honeymoon)" "In the Valley of the Moon" "Love in the Moonlight" "Ah, But Is It Love?" from the musical "Moonlight and Pretzels" "Moonlight Down in Lovers' Lane" "Many Moons Ago" "My Moonlight Madonna" "When It's Moonlight in Sunshine Valley"
Songs include: "Dust on the Moon" "Moonglow" "Moon of Desire" - two almost identical copies "A New Moon is Over my Shoulder" "The Moonlight Waltz" "Winter Moon" "Drifting in the Moonlight" "If the Moon Turns Green" "I Wished on the Moon" "Mellow Mountain Moon" "Moon Over Miami" "Roll Along Prairie Moon"
Songs include: "I Was Saying to the Moon" "Moonlight and Shadows" "Roll on Silver Moon" "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" "In the Evening by the Moonlight" "I Saw Your Face in the Moon" "Mama, That Moon Is Here Again" "Moon at Sea" "The Moon Got in My Eyes" - two identical copies "Sail Along, Silver Moon"- two copies with different covers "Stardust on the Moon" "Turn off the Moon"
Songs include: "Garden of the Moon" "Indiana Moonlight" "Shadows on the Moon" "There's Honey on the Moon Tonight" "Bluebirds in the Moonlight" "Moon Love" "The Moon Is a Silver Dollar" "A New Moon and an Old Serenade" "Oh! You Crazy Moon" "Get the Moon out of Your Eyes" "Fishin' for the Moon" "How High the Moon" "If It Wasn't for the Moon" "Red Moon of the 'Caribbees'"
Songs include: "Idaho Moon" "Moonlight Masquerade" "Moonlight Cocktail" "Moonlight Mood" "Under a Strawberry Moon" "Velvet Moon" - two copies with different covers "Silver Wings in the Moonlight" "Moonlight by the Stream" "Moonlight Whispers" "That Feeling in the Moonlight" "Fishin'for the Moon"
Songs include: "Full Moon and Empty Arms" "(Give Me the) Moon over Brooklyn" "In the Moon Mist" "Do You Love Me" "Dreamy Old New England Moon" "Go Chase a Moonbeam" "The Moon is Blue" "There's a Golden Moon in the Heavens Tonight" "The Moon and I" "Mambo in the Moonlight" "Moonlight Mystery" "Moonlight Love" "Sugar Moon" "Golden Moon" "Don't Make Me Wait on the Moon" "Painted Moon"
A small book, entitled Tobacco Tag's Book of Songs" includes fourteen pages of lyrics to songs "you hear on radio and --d Records." It was probably published in the 1940s, because a couple of the songs were copyrighted in 1939. Printed in Richmond, VA. The sheet music cover is a copy of "Jealous Moon" by Harry D. Kerr, and is printed on photo paper. It features a man and woman sitting on a crescent moon.
A small book, entitled Tobacco Tag's Book of Songs" includes fourteen pages of lyrics to songs "you hear on radio and --d Records." It was probably published in the 1940s, because a couple of the songs were copyrighted in 1939. Printed in Richmond, VA. The sheet music cover is a copy of "Jealous Moon" by Harry D. Kerr, and is printed on photo paper. It features a man and woman sitting on a crescent moon.