Daddy Mine

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"Daddy Mine"
Sheet music cover - HE'S GOT THOSE BIG BLUE EYES LIKE YOU, DADDY MINE (1918).jpg
Song
Released1918 (1918)
Genre World War I song
Composer(s) Al Dubin
Lyricist(s) Lew Wilson

"Daddy Mine" is a World War I song released in 1918. Lew Wilson wrote and Alfred Dubin composed this ballad. It was published by M. Witmark & Songs in New York, New York. [1] It was written for both voice and piano.

The cover features a photo of Mae Marsh, a Goldwyn Pictures Star, holding an infant. [2] This song, performed by Charles Hart, and Elizabeth Spencer, was included in a 1918 sound disc recording entitled "Three Wonderful Letters from Home." [3]

The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, [4] and the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina. [5]

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References

  1. Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music 1. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 90. ISBN   978-0-7864-2798-7.
  2. Dubin, Alfred and Wilson, Lew, "Daddy Mine" (1918). Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection. Book 2064. http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mmb-vp/2064
  3. Hanley, James F, Joe Goodwin, Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley, Alfred Dubin, Lew Wilson, Charles Hart, and Elizabeth Spencer. Three Wonderful Letters from Home. Camden, N.J: Victor, 1918. Sound recording. OCLC   71278944
  4. Wilson, Lew, and Al Dubin. Daddy Mine. New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1918. OCLC   24885929
  5. Sudduth, Elizabeth A. The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2005. OCLC   59099089

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