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This score and lyrics celebrate Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy as a veteran of the Spanish-American War and President of the United States. Lyrics by James Sprague. The back cover has a sample of sheet music by the same authors for “I’m sighing tears of love for you.”
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1910
This sheet music for band and orchestra is “the ‘Official’ Song of ‘Good Times.’” Music by Joe Jordan and lyrics by Julie Jones and Alfred Anderson. The front cover features left-profile photo portraits of Theodore Roosevelt in grey wool suit with twill lining, wearing pince-nez glasses and a flower in his lapel. Floral art nouveau designs are on either side of the portrait, with a feather over the design.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1912
Booklet of campaign lyrics written to the tune of “familiar aires.” Songs include: “We’ll Vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks,” “Roosevelt, my Roosevelt,” “Roosevelt for the Presidential Chair,” “Workingman’s Song,” “Roosevelt Forever!” “The Fame of Roosevelt,” “‘Teddy’ Roosevelt Is Our Man,'” and “He Tried to Change His Record.”
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1904
Score for a march celebrating the 1900 presidential election. A pen inscription on the top right corner of the front cover states, “Lucy Comstock 1900.”
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1900
Piano score and lyrics for a Republican campaign song endorsing Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks for the 1904 presidential election.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1904
The sheet music for “There’s Bound to be a Yankee in the Way” is a “topical and campaign song,” with music and words by D’Arcy Blaxall, arranged by Z.M. Parvin, Mus. Doc.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1915
The score and lyrics celebrate Theodore Roosevelt’s decision to run for president again in 1912. The back cover includes an advertisement for “Somebody Else Will if you Don’t,” also published by Jerome H. Remick & Co.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1912
The campaign march written for Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 presidential campaign was “published for Theodore Henckels of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., by Hatch Music Co., Philadelphia.” The cover design features a three-quarter length portrait of TR standing beside a chair, hand on hip facing the camera. The photo is from Pach Brothers, New York. The back cover includes a letter from Theodore Henckels to Colonel Thad. M. Chapman, Chairman of the Vermont State Republican Committee.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1904
Sheet music for “We Are With T. R.,” the “Campaign Song of the Progressive Party.” Words by A. W. Loudon, music by John B. Shirley. Cover displays a head and chest, black and white, 1904 photograph of Theodore Roosevelt by Pach Brothers. Roosevelt is angled three-quarters to his left, wearing a suit jacket, vest, tie and pince-nez glasses. Title at top is written in black in all capital letters. Text is black on white ground. Back page lists the principles of the Progressive Party.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1912
Sheet music for a campaign song score, with lyrics by Harry D. Kerr, for Theodore Roosevelt’s 1912 bid for the presidency, run on the Progressive Party “Bull Moose” ticket. The cover background is a Pach Brothers portrait of Roosevelt, seated with his left leg crossed over right. Roosevelt wears a three piece grey herringbone suit and a ring on his left pinky. The back cover has sample sheet music for “Mine,” also by Alfred Solman.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1912
Sheet music for “The New Campaign: March and Two-Step” by Will Hardy, endorsing Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks for election in 1904. Cover design features an illustration by F. P. Dean, depicting the title within a cloud of smoke. Below the title is an illustration of the White House with portraits of Roosevelt and Fairbanks flanking the White House. The portraits are framed with laurel wreaths. Blue and green design on yellow ground.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1904
Score and lyrics for a slow two-step endorsing Theodore Roosevelt under the Bull-Moose Progressive Party nomination in the 1912 presidential election.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1912
Lyrics to the tune of John Brown’s Body. Campaign song for Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. Probably for the 1904 campaign, but possibly for 1912.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1904
Campaign sheet music entitled ‘We’ll Vote for McKinley for “He’s All Right!” Score and lyrics endorsing William McKinley for President and Theodore Roosevelt for Vice President in the 1900 election.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1900
Score and lyrics for a campaign march song supporting Theodore Roosevelt’s run in the presidential election of 1912.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1912
Thomas F. Leahy asks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to give a subjoined petition to President Roosevelt. Leahy has written campaign songs for Roosevelt in the past and encloses a thank you note he received from him as proof.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-26
Lyrics, written by Thomas F. Leahy, for the campaign song “McKinley and Roosevelt,” to be sung to the tune of “The Battle Cry of Freedom.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-26