By Doug Boilesen
The 1915 PPIE in San Francisco celebrated
the completion of the Panama Canal.
Sheet music created for the PPIE and
for the building of the Panama Canal are featured in this gallery
along with a playlist of respective
recordings.
Playlist
"Panama
Exposition March" (Chas.
A. Prince) Played by Prince's Band, Columbia 10" Record No. A1195.
"Through
the Panama Canal" (Von der Mehden) Descriptive played by
Prince's Band, Columbia 10" Record No. A1528.
"San
Francisco (At that San-Fran-Pan-American Fair)" Sung by Arthur
Fields, Columbia Record No. A1699, Recorded January 26, 1915.
"1915
San Francisco (March Song)" Sung by Henry Burr and Albert
Campbell, Record No. A1623 Recorded Oct 27, 1914 New York.
Sheet Music, Records and Related
Material
"Exposition March
San Francisco 1915" by Leo Friedman, Frank K.Root & Co.,
Chicago New York 1915 (Courtesy Jamieson Collection, JC-SEM).
LISTEN
to "Panama Exposition March"
(Chas. A. Prince) Played by Prince's Band, Columbia 10" Record
No. A1195 (Courtesy David Giovannoni Collection and i78s.org).
"Panama Canal March," by Will
Wood. Published by Will Wood, New York, 1913 (Source: Lester
S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins).
LISTEN
to "Through the Panama Canal" (Von der Mehden) Descriptive
played by Prince's Band, Columbia 10" Record No. A1528 (Courtesy
David Giovannoni Collection and i78s.org).
"Panama Pacific Exposition Grand
March" by L.J. Meyerholtz. "Dedicated to the Panama Exposition."
Published by H.R. McClure Company, Sidney, Ohio, 1912 (Source:
Lester
S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins).
"In San Francisco the Fair Will
Be Best," Words by Sam Harrison. Music by A.J. Bloom. Publisher
Southwest Music Publishing Co., 851 Washington St., Oakland, CA,
1910 (Source: Lester
S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins).
"San Francisco The World's Fair
Town," Words by Andy Graves. Music by Eddie Jewell. Publisher
Benj. Curtaz & Sons, 115 Kearney St., San Francisco, 1912 (Source:
Lester
S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins).
"San-Fran-Pan-American March &
Two-Step" by Joel P. Corin, Geo. W. Meyer music Co., New York,
1915 (Courtesy Jamieson Collection, JC-SFP).
LISTEN
to "San Francisco (At that San-Fran-Pan-American Fair" sung
by Arthur Fields, Columbia Record No. A1699, Recorded January 26,
1915 (Courtesy of David Giovannoni Collection).
LISTEN
to "Dear Old Pal of Mine" (Rice) Sung by Charles Hackett,
Columbia Record No. 79196, Recorded June 17, 1920 (DAHR). The label
is an example of how Columbia Records leveraged an award at PPIE (not
for this recorrd) but for "Highest Awards" at Panama-Pacific
Exhibition. Recording courtesy of Internet Archive.
(Record Label courtesy
Jamieson Collection, JC-RSS).
LISTEN
to "1915 San Francisco (March Song)" Sung by Henry Burr
and Albert Campbell, Record No. A1623 Recorded Oct 27, 1914 New York
(Courtesy DAHR)
WATCH
1915 San Francisco March sung by Henry Burr and Albert Campbell,
Columbia Record 1914 - YouTube video created by abendstunde49 (2013).
Special thanks to David
Giovannoni, the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection, the University
of California-Davis, the Internet Archive, Library of Congress, and
John Jamieson.
See The
Jamieson Collection for more examples of PPIE sheet music and
records.
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