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"Come On
Play Ball With Me
Dearie" Sheet
Music |
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Item Details |
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CIRCA -
1909
PUBLISHER
- Gus Edwards Music
Publishing Co.
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SIZE
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10.5" x
13.5" (6 pages)
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FORMAT -
Sheet
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PRICE GUIDE- $50.00-$100.00
Excellent - Near
Mint Condition
Information
Provided by:
Keymancollectibles.com
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The Sheet music for "Come On
Play Ball With Me Dearie,"
as sung in F. Ziegfeld Jr's Annual
Summer Review Follies of 1909; written by Edward Madden and
Gus Edwards, was published by Gus
Edwards Music Publishing Company. Gus
Edwards, Known as “The Star Maker” was
an American composer; songwriter, film
director, vaudevillian, organized his
own theatre companies, and was a music
publisher.
It was common for Tin Pan Alley to
print various copies of the same sheet
music featuring different photos of
vaudeville singers. Those singers
featured on the cover were actively
promoting the song and would receive
compensation, especially if the song
became a hit. This sheet cover for
"Come On Play Ball With Me Dearie,"
features Lillian Loraine.
Ziegfeld discovered Lillian Loraine who was promoted from the chorus to a
leading part in the production of "Miss
Innocence" in 1909. He put her in the
spotlight as a solo performer who
became celebrated for introducing the
song "By the Light of the Silvery Moon.
Also written by Gus Edwards, and Edward
Madden. Ziegfeld spent the next several
years promoting her career, which is
why she landed on the cover of "Come On
Play Ball With Me Dearie" Sheet Music.
It was Eva Tanguay that sang the song
in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1909.
The finale of the first set representing the New York Polo Grounds is
where one of Ziegfeld's biggest
novelties is portrayed. Eva Tanguay
sings the song "Come On Play Ball With
Me Dearie." At the conclusion of the
song, she and the Ziegfeld beauty
girls, about 60 in all, throw lifelike
soft canvas baseballs stuffed with hay
at the audience. The girls are pelted
in return. The volley is kept up for
several minutes, and it was said that
over 800 baseballs were need at every
performance.
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1909 "Come On Play
Ball With Me Dearie"
By Edward Madden and Gus
Edwards Sheet Music |
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| "Come On Play Ball With Me Dearie" Sheet Music |
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"Come On
Play Ball With Me Dearie" -
Lyrics
Words by By Edward
Madden Music By Gus
Edwards 1909 |
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Sweet Mamie Magee
was a young coryphee
And she danced in the
Chorus by night;
but Mamie by day was a
"fan" in her way,
For a ball-game was
Mamie's delight,
She's root through a
game and then send in
her name
And invite them all down
to her show;
She'd sing to the nine
that could buy the most
wine
This refrain in a shill
tremolo
Chorus:
Come on play ball with
me dearie,
I'll "catch" what ever
you "throw."
Know lots of places
where we can "run bases"
If only wait for me
after the show,
We won't "run home" till
you're weary
You'll like my "curves,"
never fear;
My heart is on fire,
when cupids umpire,
Come on, play ball with
me dear. Come dear.
Sweet Mamie Magee was
astonished to see
How the other dames
followed her plan;
The swell chorus misses
for baseballs threw
kisses,
Till Mamie could not
land a man,
Said she, "that's a
woman, they act almost
human
When they try to crush a
poor dame;
If they get much gayer
I'll win a ball player
If I have to holler his
name"."
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