Everybody’s Teddy
Score for a march and two-step honoring Theodore Roosevelt.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1910
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Roosevelt and Fairbanks
Sheet music for “Roosevelt and Fairbanks,” by William P. McBride. Piano score for a march and two-step written for the 1904 presidential campaign, endorsing Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1904
Creator(s)
Doctor Teddy, de luxe
Sheet music for “Doctor Teddy, De Luxe” by Thomas H. Mulvey, celebrating Theodore Roosevelt’s many accomplishments over the years. The chorus refers to him as “Doctor Big Stick” and the “De Luxe Doctor of the Nations.” Cover design features an oval, head and shoulders portrait of Roosevelt by Underwood & Underwood. Framing the portrait and title are white irises with twining leaves, blue pen and ink design on peach ground. Top left corner of front cover has pen inscription: “Madge M.” Back cover has advertisement for a memorial song for the Titanic Band, “Vesper Bells are Ringing,” available from the New York Sheet Music Clearing House.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1912
Creator(s)
Roosevelt’s grand triumphal march
Score for a march dedicated for “Ex-President Roosevelt’s Triumphal Return from Africa and Europe” and “Played the First Time on Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt’s arrival in New York by a band of 64 musicians on Fifth Avenue June 18, 1910.”
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1912
Creator(s)
Republican presidential march
Sheet music for “Republican Presidential March” by Edwin F. Kendall. Score written for the 1904 presidential campaign endorsing the Republican party nominations, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks. Copyright held by Nathan Goldfinger.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1904
Creator(s)
Teddy’s moose
Score and lyrics for a slow two-step endorsing Theodore Roosevelt under the Bull-Moose Progressive Party nomination in the 1912 presidential election.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1912
Creator(s)
We stand at Armageddon
Score and lyrics for the “Roosevelt Battle Hymn” endorsing Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1912
Creator(s)
Roosevelt march
Score for a march “respectfully dedicated to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.”
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
Unknown
Creator(s)
Uncle Sam’s concert; The great Chicago fair
Score and lyrics written about The Great Chicago Fair of 1893, rereleased in 1912 with a cover depicting TR and Taft brawling in front of Uncle Sam and the Capitol. Arranged by William Loraine.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1893, 1912
Creator(s)
Roosevelt the peace victor: the president’s song
Piano score and lyrics for a two-step commemorating Theodore Roosevelt’s involvement in the peace talks between Russia and Japan to end the Russo-Japanese War in September 1905. Roosevelt won a Nobel peace prize for his role in these negotiations. The song was ‘written upon the inspiration of the moment and completed by 9 o’clock on the day of the very first morning “peace” was publicly declared:-Aug. 30, 1905.’
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1905
Creator(s)
Strenuous life
Piano score for a march and two-step written on the theme of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech, “The Strenuous Life,” given in Chicago, Illinois, in 1899. The back cover includes a sample of another piece of music, “The American Workman.”
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1902
Creator(s)
The Rough Riders
Sheet music for “The Rough Riders,” a march and two-step by Frederick P. Dowling “[d]edicated to Colonel Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.” Samples of other pieces of music are included on the back cover.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1898
Creator(s)
The square deal
Score and lyrics for a march, two-step, and refrain, which exalts Teddy as “the man that’s always ready….to give a the square deal.” “Dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt President of the United States on the Occasion of the marriage of his daughter Alice.”
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1906
Creator(s)
Roosevelt march
Piano score for a march written to commemorate Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. Samples of other sheet music are included on the back cover.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1910
Creator(s)
The Roosevelt grand march
Sheet music for “The Roosevelt Grand March” by Elza Lothner. The front cover states,”The Original Manuscript Cordially Accepted by the Roosevelt Family.”
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1902
Creator(s)
The American girl
Sheet music for “The American Girl,” a two-step march inspired by Alice Roosevelt. The cover design is an illustration of flags and stars, a stylized floral motif, soldiers heralding with trumpets, and a portrait of Alice Roosevelt by Moore.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1905
Creator(s)
North Dakota: Teddy Roosevelt’s west
Piano score and lyrics celebrating the landscape and people of North Dakota. “Featured by Fletcher Bros., Frederick Hotel Orchestra, Grand Forks, No. Dak.”
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1925
Creator(s)
The political cleanup
Sheet music for “The Political Cleanup” by Carroll McMannus, lyricist, and L. A. Clark, composer. Cover design in brown on white ground features a political cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt holding the hands of a Republican elephant labeled “G. O. P.” and dressed in hat, dress, and heels, and a Progressive Bull Moose wearing hat, dress, shoes and carrying a purse labeled “B. M. P.” Two servants scrub the wood flooring clean on hands and knees. Both wear short shirts. Score and lyrics advocate for a “Political Cleanup” at the upcoming 1916 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1916
Creator(s)
Teddy’s nig
Score and lyrics satirizing Theodore Roosevelt’s relationship with native Africans after his 1909-1910 safari and their introduction to western culture. “Dedicated with due apologies to the African Jungle Folks.” Illustration by Hat. Clarke.
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1910
Creator(s)
“Alice Blue” waltzes
The sheet music for the “‘Alice Blue’ Waltzes” was “dedicated to Alice, daughter of our President Theodore Roosevelt.” White ribbons and gold wedding bells frame on two sides a photo of the White House. The wedding bells read “Alice, Dear Alice, We wish you all happiness, Feb 17 1906.”
Collection
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
Creation Date
1906