Music by Keene, Bean & Frankie Masters; Words by Johnny Burke
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"When birds are singing, sweet music bringing, like joy-bells ringing a wedding chime—dear, do not tarry. Come, let us marry! And then I'll love you, nearly all the time."
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From Die Bühne, 1931.
Goldie Hawn, born Nov. 21, 1945 in our nation’s capital, grew up under the tutelage of her musician father and dance instructor mother. Here in 1960, at the piano with her father, musician and bandleader Edward Rutledge Hawn, the future dancer and actress looks over sheet music for “As Long As He Needs Me” in their home in Takoma Park, Maryland, 1960.
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The image you may associate with Rosie the Riveter, the poster of a bandanaed blue collar woman emblazoned with “We Can Do It,” was actually never meant to represent Rosie the Riveter. Instead, the poster designed by J. Howard Miller was intended to motivate employees in Westinghouse factories during WWII.
In fact, the song writing pair Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb are most likely responsible for the genesis of Rosie. Together they wrote the song ‘Rosie the Riveter’ in 1942, well before the May 1943 Norman Rockwell cover of The Saturday Evening Post that introduced many Americans to Rosie. The song was quite popular, and it’s very likely Rockwell capitalized on its popularity when he included a lunch pail with the name “Rosie” written on it as part of his illustration.
It was only in the early 80s when the Westinghouse poster became associated with Rosie, and the movement for women’s equality more broadly.
The sheet music for Rosie the Riveter is in the Bella C. Landauer Collection of Sheet Music in the National Air and Space Museum Library, the covers of which you can see online.
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2014 as envisioned in 1914. Was it everything you hoped it would be?
Title: A Hundred Years from Now. Composer(s): Caddington, Brennan and Story. Publishing Info: Boston, MA: O. E. Storey, 1914. Notes: For voice and piano
Bonus! Here’s the refrain:
"I wonder what kind of a life they’ll lead A hundred years from now? I wonder what’s going to be the speed A hundred years from now? The girlies are setting a pace today That’s turning the locks of gold to grey, We’re living a life of constant alteration I wonder if they’ll have a tango dance A hundred years from now I wonder if men will wear short pants A hundred years from now There’s no solution it’s all evolution I wonder, and wonder, and wonder how much the girls are going to wear A hundred years from now.”
See the full lyrics and sheet music at MIT Libraries.
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This couple’s romantic flight graces the cover of “The Aeroplane” composed by Jack Glogau in 1913, found in our Bella Landauer sheet music collection in the National Air and Space Museum library.