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I'll be a Santa Claus to you

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G99C385_001


Item data

Title

I'll be a Santa Claus to you

Collection

Sheet music of songs from various musicals, plays, movies, and television (M.C. file)
Sheet music, 1915.

Names

Buck, Gene (Lyricist)
De Takacs, André C. (Illustrator)
Hirsch, Louis A. (Louis Achille), 1881-1924 (Composer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1915
Place: New York
Publisher: M. Witmark

Library Location

Music Division
Shelf locator: M.C. (Ziegfeld follies, 1915)

Subjects

Songs

Genres

Sheet Music
Scores

Notes

Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Content: Caption title.
Content: Cover illustrated by De Takacs.
Content: F. Ziegfeld Jr's Ziegfeld Follies 1915--Cover.
Content: First line of refrain: I'll be a Santa Claus to you.
Content: First line of text: There is a day that we all remember.
Content: For voice and piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Statement Of Responsibility: words by Gene Buck ; music by Louis A. Hirsch.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 vocal score (3 p.) : ill. ; 33 cm.
Cover's center seam torn and repaired with tape; cover's edges trimmed; all edges worn. Page tags glued onto several pages.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPG99-C385
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14535683
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 13e5d8f0-c5ff-012f-f5d5-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

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MLA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "I'll be a Santa Claus to you" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1915. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13e5d8f0-c5ff-012f-f5d5-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1915). I'll be a Santa Claus to you Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13e5d8f0-c5ff-012f-f5d5-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "I'll be a Santa Claus to you" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 10, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/13e5d8f0-c5ff-012f-f5d5-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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