Finding Aid for Frances Wilson Hall Sheet Music Collection, 1906-1958 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

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Collection Overview

Title: Frances Wilson Hall Sheet Music Collection, 1906-1958

ID: 12/9/166

Primary Creator: Hall, Frances "Fritz" Nancy Wilson (1914-2006)

Extent: 0.25 cubic feet

Arrangement: Sheet music is arranged alphabetically by title, Etude Magazines are arranged chronologically by date of publication.

Date Acquired: 04/29/2019

Subjects: Jazz, Music Publishers, Piano, Vaudeville, Vaudeville songs -- United States, World War I, World War II

Formats/Genres: Sheet music

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Contains popular piano and jazz standards arranged for piano written predominantly between the mid 1930s and mid 1940s, also contains WWII era Etude magazines.

Biographical Note

Frances "Fritz" Wilson Hall (1914-2006) was born in Richfield, Idaho. Her family moved to Bakersfield, California in 1917, where she would live for the rest of her life. Hall learned piano at a young age and sang in the Kern County High School glee club. After graduating High School in 1932, she enrolled at Northwest Christian College in Eugene, Oregon and was accepted into the college choir. In 1933, after the untimely death of her father, she returned to Bakersfield and began working for the Bakersfield Californian newspaper. Frances married Milo Hall, a co-worker at the newspaper, in 1946 and the couple were married for sixty years. Throughout her life she remained an avid collector of piano music and active performer within the First Christian Church choir of Bakersfield.

Subject/Index Terms

Jazz
Music Publishers
Piano
Vaudeville
Vaudeville songs -- United States
World War I
World War II

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Acquisition Source: Barbara Hall

Acquisition Method: Donation.

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Box and Folder Listing

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Box 1

Folder 1: Sheet Music Titles, 1906-1958: Amor, Melody Lane Publications, 1941; Begin the Beguine, Harms, Inc, 1935; Begin the Beguine, Harm, Inc., 1943; Blue Hawaii, Famous Music, Corp, 1937; The Creaking Old Mill on the Creek, Bregman, Vocco, and Conn, Inc, 1939; A Friend of Yours, Burke and Ban Heusen, Inc., 1944; Green Eyes, Southern Music Pub, Co., 1929; In An Old Dutch Garden, Harms, Inc., 1939; In the Middle of An Island, Mayfair Music Corp., 1957; In the Sweet Bye and Bye, Century Music Publishing, Co., 1913, It's a Sin To Tell a Lie, Donaldson, Douglas, and Gumble, Inc., 1936; Kiss of Spring Waltz, Walter Jacobs, 1906; Leanin' on the Ole Top Rail, Leo Feist, Inc, 1939; The Loveliest Night of the Year, Robbins Music Corp., 1950; Melody of Love, Theodore Presser, Co., 1930; Miss You, Santly-Joy-Select, Inc., 1942; Mr. Touchdown, USA, Roger Music, Inc, 1950; My Devotion, Santly-Joy-Select, Inc., 1942; The Old Piano Roll Blues, Leeds Music Corp., 1949; On the Beach at Bali-Bali, Joe Morris Music Co., 1936; Rival King March, H.C. Weasner and Co., 1917; Sing An Old Fashioned Song, Crawford Music Corp, 1935; The Singing Hills, Santly-Joy-Select, Inc., 1940; Somebody Else is Taking My Place, Shapiro, Bernstein and Co, 1937; There's a Long, Long, Trail, M. Witmark and Sons, 1913; A Very Precious Love, M. Witmark and Sons, 1958; 100 WLS Barn Dance Favorites, M.M. Cole Publishing Co., 1935.
Folder 2: The Etude Music Magazines, 1943-1944: August 1943, June 1944, and August 1944 issues.