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I want to learn to "jazz" dance

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g99c416_001


Item data

Title

I want to learn to "jazz" dance

Collection

Sheet music of songs from various musicals, plays, movies, and television (M.C. file)
Sheet music, 1918.

Names

Buck, Gene (Lyricist)
Stamper, Dave, 1883-1963 (Composer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1918
Place: New York
Publisher: T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter

Library Location

Music Division
Shelf locator: M.C. (Ziegfeld follies, 1918)

Subjects

Songs

Genres

Sheet Music
Scores

Notes

Funding: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Content: Caption title.
Content: F. Ziegfeld Jr's 12th annual production, Ziegfeld Follies 1918, produced at the New Amsterdam Theatre, N.Y.--Cover.
Content: First line of refrain: I want to learn how to "jazz" dance.
Content: First line of text: Now I love to do ev'rything that's new.
Content: For voice and piano.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
Content: Staged by Ned Wayburn--Cover, lower right corner.
Statement Of Responsibility: words by Gene Buck ; music by Dave Stamper.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 vocal score (4 p.) : ill. ; 35 cm.
Covers separated; edges frayed and torn; some corners missing.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPG99-C416
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14535727
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 49b1c8e0-c5ff-012f-59d2-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Notated Music

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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "I want to learn to "jazz" dance" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1918. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/49b1c8e0-c5ff-012f-59d2-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1918). I want to learn to "jazz" dance Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/49b1c8e0-c5ff-012f-59d2-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "I want to learn to "jazz" dance" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/49b1c8e0-c5ff-012f-59d2-58d385a7bc34

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