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The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945
by John Bush Jones
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... once, often that was enough for them to buy the record (when available) or sheet music, and during the war sheet music sales were as big an industry as phonograph records. ... "
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A Century of American Popular Music
by David A. Jasen
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... Seeley and Eddie Cantor also featured it in vaudeville. Isham Jones and His Orchestra made a fine recording (Brunswick 2789). Sheet music sales exceeded one million copies. It was revived by the Ink Spots in the film The Great American Broadcast (20th Century ... "
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Joel Whitburn Presents a Century of Pop Music: Year-By-Year Top 40 Rankings of the Songs & Artists That Shaped a Century
by Joel Whitburn
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with references to "sheet music sales".
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... classical composers such as Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, and Ravel, so they bought tunes with simple, catchy melodies and sent sheet music sales on a steady climb. Stephen Foster was the first American songwriter to earn a living, though meager, in writing popular ... "
Key Phrases:
Bing Crosby, Billy Murray, Paul Whiteman, Henry Burr, Byron Harlan, Arthur Collins, pop singles charts, total weeks, sheet music sales, chubby checker, radio airplay, wax cylinders
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Pop Memories 1890-1954: The History of American Popular Music
by Joel Whitburn
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Excerpt - from Front Matter: "
... regional labels helped fill the gaps. To compile the charts of that decade I combined this material with data on sheet music sales and other popular song listings from ASCAP and the books of musicol- ogist David Ewen. ... "
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