1944 IRVING BERLIN adaptation Hildegarde handwritten score ALL THE JEEPS

Description: [HILDEGARDE; AUTOGRAPH/MANUSCRIPT ARRANGEMENT SCORE; IRVING BERLIN/ENTERTAINER/LGBTQ INTEREST] WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH ALL THE JEEPS copyrighted by Irving Berlin November 6, 1944 (note with song lyrics in The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin), performed by Hildegarde November 14, 1944, in a Raleigh Room radio program (Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs website), AUTOGRAPH/HANDWRITTEN ADAPTATION: 10” x 14", 16-page handwritten arrangement by Hildegarde in pencil for 16-piece radio orchestra on music composition sheets titled at top of first page, at bottom of first page Milton Weinstein American Federation of Musicians (AFM) stamp including "Registered 1944", on page 2 with the piano part of the score is the note “Voice” in red pencil and related musical notation in red pencil throughout the remaining pages with annotation”H” in a few places for “Hildegarde” involvement in the perfomance [Hildegarde played the piano as she sang], pages held together with twine through two holes at left margin; included also: 35 pages total with Walter Dorfuss copyist stamp in lower right corner: (i) 9-1/2” x 12-1/2", 2-page (front and back of 4-page folded sheet) piano part for Hildegarde copied from the autograph arrangement with note in red ink “Voice” on first page with related notations in red ink throughout; (ii) 2-page Conductor score (front and back of 4-page folded sheet) noting Voice, Harp, Saxs, etc., with annotations in red pencil; (iii) each instrument's part in the arrangement on one or two pages, e. g., Violin A, 2nd Trumpet, 1st Sax, Harp [instruments do not exactly correspond to ones named on the autograph arrangement], throughout the pages of the parts of the score by the copyist are occasional annotations in red and black marker; all material authenticated by seller with a lifetime guarantee of authenticity /// POINTS OF INTEREST: HILDEGARDE, 1906-2005, born Loretta Sell, Wisconsin, began her career in vaudeville and traveling shows; at the peak of her popularity in the 1930s and ’40s; in the early 1930s, Hildegarde was working as a “song plugger” in Irving Berlin’s New York music office, when Jess Freeman of Variety and the comedian Joe Laurie, Jr., arranged to get her an audition with the noted talent scout Gus Edwards (1878-1945, founding member of ASCAP in 1914, inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970). Edwards signed her to a contract and shortened her name to Hildegarde, and with much hard work, tours of Europe, eventual return to the U. S., and management by Anna Sosenko, Hildegarde became an international star; dubbed “The Incomparable Hildegarde” by Walter Winchell, she performed before European royalty and American servicemen during World War II; Eleanor Roosevelt called her “First Lady of the Supper Clubs”; during the 1940s, she was the host of the NBC radio program “Raleigh Room”; Anna Sosenko (1909-2006) became Hildegarde’s business manager in the 1930s when the two met in New Jersey, and were constant companions with inevitable rumors of a lesbian relationship, though this was kept private considering the mores of the era; it was Sosenko who composed Hildegarde’s theme song “Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup” she sang at practically all of her appearances; after more than 20 years companionship, the two split in the 1950s over business disagreements; Liberace credits Hildegarde with shaping his entertainment persona and performance style: “I used to absorb all the things she was doing, all the showmanship she created. It was marvelous to watch her…” (wikipedia); in her day of the 1930s and ’40s, Hildegarde was one of the best known and most popular entertainers in the U. S. and Europe, she was on the cover of Life magazine in 1939, Revlon introduced a shade of Hildegarde lipstick and nail polish, and she is credited with starting the practice of using a single-name among many entertainers, e. g., Madonna, Liberace, Prince /// PROVENANCE: among a large number of music manuscripts from Anna Sosenko’s office kept by her for permissions, copyright, and other business purposes acquired at an estate sale in a town outside of New York City, Sosenko was Hildegarde’s manager and companion from the 1930s to the 1950s /// CONDITION: all pages in fine condition except for first page of the autograph arrangement with 2-3/8” crease and short tear at middle of right page edge and light crease at upper right corner of score for Piano. keywords: popular culture, old-time radio, popular music, entertainment, social history, 1940s American culture, Americana, celebrity memorabilia, women's studies, women's interests

Price: 400 USD

Location: Southport, Connecticut

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