Part 1 (U.S. Mss 32AN, Disc 32A): Original Collection, 1912-1960
Physical Description: 8.4 c.f. (9 archives boxes, 6 packages, and 1 volume) and 170 disc recordings 
Scope and Content Note

Of the major items in the collection, the nearly two hundred playbills covering the period of Coots's eminence as a Broadway composer will be of great potential in verifying minor production details, and also, through advertisements, as insights into a vanished age.

There are royalty contracts for several hundred Coots songs, ASCAP registry receipts for many more, sheet music for published songs, manuscript copies of lyrics for yet another group, and ASCAP payment records for performance royalties, 1932-1959. These last, along with a fairly complete collection of ASCAP circulars, give considerable insight into the workings of ASCAP. It might be noted that existence of a royalty contract for a song is no proof that it was ever published: the contract specifically envisions the publisher's returning the song to the composer, and that such was often the case is attested by the presence of release papers in the collection.

There is also considerable material for the casual researcher, material loosely falling into the areas of nostalgia, philosophic illumination, and human interest. The browser may with some amusement turn to the correspondence with Tim Gayle (1940 March 21, 23 and October 25; 1949 January 27; 1950 October 5), or to Coots's letters from his German reducing company, informative as to his reputation abroad. There is an amusing letter from Cole Porter (1949 January 28) in which he confesses to a lack of influence to getting seats for Kiss Me Kate. And there is an interesting and long letter from Bebe Buck, fascinating as an evocation of the good old days and statement of a songwriter's credo (1948 November 1).

Recordings accompany the papers; among them are a 1932 Roosevelt campaign song (“Row, Row With Roosevelt,” lyrics and performance by Eddie Dowling), a charming musical invitation to the third birthday party of Coots's eldest daughter (“Gloria's Birthday Party”), and performances of over a hundred of Coots's songs. There are also a number of fragmentary recordings of Golden Age radio shows, apparently made off the air by Coots.

The collection is organized in 7 series: Playbills, Royalty Contracts, ASCAP, General, Sheet Music, Photographs and Memorabilia, and Recordings.

Series: Playbills

1920-1930

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Scope and Content Note

Productions in Box 1 include Abie's Irish Rose; Accused; Adrienne; An American Tragedy; Artists and Models; Artists and Models, Paris Edition

The Bachelor Father; Battling Buttler; Bird in Hand; Blackbirds of 1928; Blossom Time; Broadway; Bunk of 1926; Burlesque

Caesar and Cleopatra; Candida; The Captive; Caroline; Children of the Moon; China Rose; The Clinging Vine; The Common Sin; Congai; A Connecticut Yankee; Craig's Wife; The Constant Wife; Criminal Code; Coquette; The Cup; Cyrano de Bergerac

The Dancers; The Dancing Girl; Dawn; Death Takes a Holiday; Desire under the Elms; The Devil's Disciple; Dew Drop Inn; The Dream Girl

Earl Carroll's Sketch Book (1929); Easy Virtue; Elsie; The Enemy; The Fake; Fanny (1926); The Firebrand; The First Mrs. Fraser; Flossie; Flying High; The Front Page; Gay Paree (1925, 1926); George White Scandals (1925, 1926, 1929); The Ghost Train; The Girl Friend; Girl Trouble; Go-Go; Goin' Home; The Golden Spoon; A Good Bad Woman; The Grand Street Follies of 1928; The Great God Brown; The Green Hat; The Greenwich Village Follies (1921, 1923, 1924, 1926); The Guinea

Helen of Troy, New York; Hello, Everybody; Here's Howe; Hocus Pocus; Hold Everything; Honest Liars; Honor Be Damned; Hot Chocolates; In the Next Room; Iolanthe; It's a Wise Child; Iz Zat So?; Jarnegan; Jealousy; Journey's End; The Judge's Husband; Just Beyond; June Moon; Just Life

Keep Kook; The Kingdom of God; Kosher Kitty Kelly [!]

The Lady; The Lady in Ermine; The Last Mile; Leave It to Me; The Legacy; Let Us Be Gay; Little Jessie James; Little Miss Bluebeard; Lulu Belle

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Scope and Content Note

Productions in Box 2 include Machinal; The Magic Ring; The Magnolia Lady; Marck Millions; The Marionette Players (Teatro dei Piccoli di Roma); Marjorie; Mayflowers; The Merry World; Murray Anderson's Almanac; Music Box Review (1922, 1923, 1924); My Son

The New Moon; The Newcomers; The New Toys; Nifties of 1922; A Night in Paris; A Night in Spain; A Night in Venice; Night Hostess; Not So Fast

O Nightingale; One Kiss; One of the Family; Our Betters

Paris; The Passing Show of 1923; The Passing Show of 1924; The Patsy; Peter Pan; Poppy; Porgy; The Prisoner; Processional; Puzzles of 1925

Rain; Rain or Shine; Rainbow or Rose; The Rise of Rosie O'Grady; The Ritz Review; The Road to Rome; Rosalie; Rose-Marie; The Royal Family; Running Wild; Ruth Draper (1929)

Saint Joan; Sally, Irene and Mary; The Shanghai Gesture; She Could Say No; Show Girl; The Showoff; Simon Called Peter; So This Is Politics; Spice of 1922; Spring Fever; Strange Interlude; Street Scene; Student Prince; Sunny; Sweet Adeline; Sweetheart Time

Taps; They Knew What They Wanted; This Year of Grace; This'll Make You Whistle; Tiger Cats; Tin Pan Alley; Top Hole; Topaze; Topics of 1923; Topsy and Eva; The Trial of Mary Dugan

The Vagabond King; The Vortex

What Every Woman Knows; We've Got the Money; What's Your Wife Doing? ; White Cargo; White Collars; White Lights; Whitewashed; The Winged Messenger; Wings Over Europe; Wooden Kimono

Ziegfeld Follies (1923, 1927); Zig Zag

Handwritten Playbill Inventory by J. Fred Coots

Modern Playbills
Scope and Content Note: For Rumple (1957) and Tall Story (1959)

Three Miscellaneous Playbills

Vaudeville Playbills
Scope and Content Note: Included are playbills for these theaters and dates: Central (New York City), 1922 October 22 (Blanche Ring, Charles Winninger and song by J. Fred Coots, “The Broadway Strut”); Keith's Orpheum (Brooklyn), 1924 September 1 (Vincent Lopez): Teller's Shubert (Brooklyn), 1926 January 25 (Houdini); Keith's Fordham (Bronx), 1928, (Hoyt and Coots, several playlets presented by Joseph P. Kennedy [father of John Fitzgerald Kennedy]); Prospect (Brooklyn), 1928 November 18 (Hoyt and Coots); Proctor's (New Rochelle), 1928 December 31 (Hoyt and Coots); Keith Albee (White Plains), 1929, January 17 (Hoyt and Coots); New Palace (Chicago), 1929 January 27 (Hoyt and Coots, Burns and Allen, Kate Smith [“The Dixie Songbird”]); Keith Albee (Flushing), 1929 February 21 (Hoyt and Coots, Joe Laurie Jr., Will Rogers [film?], and an announcement of “our first 100 percent perfect, all talking film”); Palace, 1931 February 28 (Eddie Dowling, Fay Dooley [Mrs. Eddie Dowling], and J. Fred Coots); Chestnut Street Opera House (Philadelphia), [1921] November 14 (condensed production of Sally, Irene and Mary, with Eddie Dowling, and Eddie Dowling “single”); Apollo (Chicago), same bill as 1921 November 14; Palace, 1934 September 8 (Lillian Shade and J. Fred Coots).

Series: Royalty Contracts

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Scope and Content Note

Songs represented in Box 3 include “After the Rain Is Over”; “All Alone in Love”; “All I Want Is You for Christmas”; “All Is Forgiven”; “Along the Prado”; “Another Perfect Night Is Ending”; “Ariverderci” [sic]; “Arkansas”; “At the Cross of God”; “At the Cross of God I Glory”; “At the End of a Kiss”; “At the Teddy Bear's Birthday Party”; “At the Statler Hotel”; “Awake or Dreaming”

“Babbit the Rabbit”; “Balalaika Boogie Woogie”; “A Ball Was Had by All”; “Banquet at Buckingham”; “Barritz” [sic]; “Basket of Buttercups”; “A Beautiful Lady in Blue”; “Beachcomber Club Show” (Miami Beach, 1945); “Beside the Bay of Angeli”; “Beside the Sea”; “Better Think Twice”; “Biarritz”; “Blue and Disillusioned”; “The Bluest Word I Know Is Lonesome”; “Boccacio” (Von Suppe); “Brazilian Bolero”

“The Camel with the Wrinkled Knees”; “Cameo de la Francaise”; “Camp Camp Campin' on Your Doorstep”; “Can't Get You off My Mind”; “Cha Cha Cha Charlie”; “A Change of Scenery”; “Chinky Chinee Charley Chan”; “Charlie's Home”; “Come with Me and Be My Beloved”; “Comin' Home”; “Control Yourself”; “The Corn Is Green”; “Cornet on the Cob”; “Cotton Club Parade” (1936); “Creole Caprice”

“Dance of the Little Dutch Doll”; “Don't Save Your Smiles”; “Don't Wait Too Long”; “Don't Steal the Sweetheart of a Soldier”; “Down Where the Bluebells Grow”; “Dream Dust”; “Dream Shadows”; “Dreaming of Love”; “Dreams Were Made for Lovers”; “Drifting Down a Little Dutch Canal”; “The Drum Stick Parade”; “Du Bist Mein Kleiner Tzotskeller”

“Easter Nocturne”; “El Morocco”; “Enclosed Are My Tears”; “Encore Cherie”; “Everybody's Swingin' It”; “Everybody's Whispering”; “Eyeful of You”

“Farewell, My Lovely”; “The First Song of Christmas”; “Fi-Ru-Li-Ru-Li”; “Foolishly”; “For All We Know”; “Fortissimo”; “Friendly Moon”

“The Girl of My Heart (Is You, Mother Dear)”; “The Girl on the Front Porch Swing”; “Give Us This Day”; “God Be with You Tonight, My Love”; “God Is Everywhere”; “God Is My Friend”; “The Golden-Eagle March”; “Goodbye My Coney Island Baby”; “Good Luck, Sweetheart”; “Goodbye Mama (I'm Off To Yokohama)” (1941 December 10); “Gypsy Wedding Waltz”

“The Harvest Days Will Be the Best of All”; “He'll Be Coming Down the Chimney”; “Here Come the Clowns”; “Here I Am in the Army (And Don't I Look Good in Brown)”; “Here's to the Flag (Keep It Flying Over Here - Over There - Everywhere)”; “Hollywood Holiday”; “Home Is Where the Heart Is”; “How Can I Tell You (How Much I Love You?)”; “Humpty Dumpty's Holiday”

“I Believe in Santa Claus”; “I Can't Believe It Was All Make Believe”; “I Feel a Draft Coming On”; “I Feel I'm Falling in Love with You”; “I Hear My Heart Saying”; “I Knew You When”; “I Know Now”; “I Love to Dream”; “I Surrender My Darling”; “I Want a Girl Like Annie Laurie”; “If I Should Love Again”; “If I Were You”; “If We Have a Rainy Sunday”; “I'll Come to You”; “I'll Keep on Dreaming of You”; “I'll Stand By”; “I'll Wait for You Forever”; “I'm a Little Tired, Baby”; “I'm Afraid to Love You”; “I'm Afraid to Open My Eyes”; “I'm Building Castles Again”; “I'm Grateful to You”; “I'm in a Lovable Mood Tonight”; “I'm Never Blue Where the Grass Is Green (And the Red Red Roses Grow)”; “I'm Still Yours”; “I'm Thrilled”; “In a Little Corner of England”; “In a Little German Garden (Under the Pretzel Vine)”; “In a Little Roadside Rendevzous” [sic]; “In Your Own Little Way”; “Indiana County Fair”; “Is It Just for Tonight? (Or Is It Forever?)”; “Isn't Love the Strangest Thing”; “It Happens in the Best of Families”; “It Never Dawned on Me”; “It's a Wonderful Day Today”; “It's Getting the Best of Me”; “It's Mating Time”; “It's That Time of Day”; “It's Too Late Now”; “It's Twelve O'clock My Love”; “I've Got a Watch”

“Jardines [sic] de Versailles”; “Javanese Temple Dance”; “Je Ne Sais Pas”; “The Jolly Friars March”; “A Journey into Love”; “Just a Record on the Phonograph”; “Just to Make a Long Story Short”

“Keep a Song in Your Heart”

“The Lady's Name Was (La Conchita)”; “Lessons of the Lord”; “Let's Be Friends (If We Can't Be Sweethearts)”; “Let's Go South”; “Let's Make Memories Tonight”; “Let's Take a Holiday for Two”; “A Little Golden Eagle”; “Little Goldie Goldfish”; “Little Johnny Chickadee”; “The Little Raccoon”; “A Little Robin Told Me So”; “Little Silly One-Shoe”; “The Little Man in the Big Sombrero”; “The Little Washerwoman”; “Losing You”; “Love”; “Love Made a Drummer of Me”; “Love Me Fortissimo”; “A Love Scene in Pasadena”; “Louisiana Landscape”; “Lucky Waltz”

“Mama Nicolini”; “Margarita”; “Me and My Heart”; “Me and My Teddy Bear”; “Me and My Pussy Cat”; “The Mexican Sombrero Dance”; “Ma Carina”; “Minuet Modernistique”; “Miss Nellie Machree”; “Monastery Processional”; “The Music Makin' Man”; “My Apple Pie Guy”; “My Dream Song”; “My Favorite Song”; “My Day Begins and Ends with You”; “My Runaway Heart”; “My Topic of Conversation Is You”; “My Weeping Heart”

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Songs represented in Box 4 include “Near You”; “Nora”

“Oh What a Beautiful Baby (You Turned Out to Be)”; “Old Fireplace”; “The Old Man with the Whiskers”; “One Little Drink-O -- I Go Boom”; “One More Dream”; “Our Escapade”; “Ozzie the Ostrich”

“Paper Boy”; “Paris” [Lyric by John Ringling North]; “Passion Fruit”; “Pastel for Piano”; “Peace on Earth--Good Will to Men”; “Pee Wee (The Bunny with the Big Blue Eyes)”; “Plant a Little Smile”; “Plantation Portrait”; “Please God”; “Polka Espanole”; “Poor Ballerina”; “Poor Peter Piper”; “Premiere Danseuse”; “Proud”: “Put Your Heart in a Song”

“Rainbow Island”; “The Rainbow Trail”; “Ramblin' Eyes, Gamblin' Heart”; “The Rendevous” [sic]; “Ridin' Home”; “Right to the End”; “Romany Rover”

“Salud, Amigo (Howdy, Friend)”; “Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town”; “Scarecrow in the Cornfield”; “Scotch Bagpipe Dance”; “Seven Sisters”; “Shadows in My Heart”; “She Was in Last Night”; “Show Girl”; “The Sidewalk Waltz”; “Sing a Kris Kringle Jingle”; “Sippin' Cider with My Ida”; “Sittin' in the Sun”; “Skiddle-De-Do”; “Sleepytime Soldier Boy”; “Southland Soldier Boy”; “Souvenir for Suzanne”; “Squee-Gee (The Happy Little Clown)”; “Star-Light Enchantment”; “Street Scene in Budapest”; “Street Scene in Dublin”; “Street Scene in London”; “Street Scene in Paris”; “Sugar Cane”; “Summer Souvenirs”; “Sweet Cuban Love”; “Sweetheart of Sweet Sixteen”; “Sweetly and Tenderly”; “Swifty the Thrifty Squirrel”; “Swiss Yodeler Waltz”

“Take Back Your Kisses”; “Take My Kiss to Dreamland with You”; “Thanks for the Use of Your Heart”; “There Goes My Runaway Heart”; “Tappin' the Toe”; “There's a Four Star Moon Tonight”; “Tell Me Little Dream Girl”; “There's a New World A-Comin'”; “There's Honey on the Moon Tonight”; “There's a Robin 'Round the Corner”; “These Things Are Mine”; “Things Might Have Been So Different”; “This Is My Love”; “This Is the Night”; “This Time”; “This Time It's Love”; “Tie a Rainbow Around Your Heart”; “Time Out for Love”; “To Have, To Hold, To Love”; “To-Night”; “Tonight I'll Dream of You”; “Tweedle-Dee the Clown”

“Until Today”

“Wait Till I Catch You in My Dreams, Wait'll It Happens to You”; “Walter, Walter, Wallflower”; “Waltzing on a Rainbow”; “We Only Love Once”; “The Wedding Day of Jack And Jill”; “Well I'll Be Sayin' Goodnight”; “What Are You Gonna Do with All Your Money”; “What Do I Have to Do”; “What's Gonna Be? (With You And Me)”; “When and Where”; “When Lovers Meet”; “When My Baby Talks That Double-Talk to Me”; “When the Chimes on Chapel Ring Ave Maria”; “When the Logs Come Rolling Down the River”; “When the Teddy Bears Go Marching on Parade”; “When They Play the Waltz You Love”; “When the Robin Sings His Song Again”; “When We're Together”; “When You First Ate an Olive”; “Who Loves You”; “Who Wouldn't Be Thrilled?”; “Who'll Tie the Bell on the Old Cat's Tail”; “Why Do I Lie to Myself about You”; “Why Let a Lie Break Your Heart?”; “The Witch Song”; “With God's Hand in Mine”; “With Just a Little Encouragement from You”; “With My Song”; “Words Fail Me”; “Wrap Up Your Dreams in Red, White and Blue”

“You Don't Have to Drop a Heart to Break It”; “You Go to My Head”; “You Happened to Me”; “You in Your Little White Apron and Me in My Blue Overalls”; “You Started Me Dreaming”; “The Young Lovers of Montmartre”; “You're a Mystery to Me”; “You're Everything That's Beautiful”; “You're So Simpatico”; “Yours Truly Is Truly Yours”

Series: ASCAP

Advances, foreign royalties

Circular letters, agreements

Distributions

Miscellaneous Performance Records

Registry: acknowledgements of registration of songs by Coots (alphabetized by title)

Series: General

The Baton, 1940 March, articles on and by J. Fred Coots
Scope and Content Note: The periodical was in part owned by Coots, under terms made clear in the correspondence with Tim Gayle, cited in the Scope and Content narrative for the Original Collection.

Clippings, General

Copyrights

Copyright renewals

Correspondence

Kiwanis

Lecture tours

Licenses: recording contracts negotiated by Coots

Lyrics: for songs by Coots, various authors

Manuscript song: “Alice”

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous contracts

Miscellaneous financial papers

Periodicals

Photographs

Real Estate

Releases

Report Cards

Royalty Statements

Simmons Cruises

Songs: Miscellaneous legal papers

Series: Sheet Music

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Songs represented in Box 8 include “Absent Minded Flo”; “After All”; “After the Clouds Roll By”; “Ah, But I've Learned”; “All Suit: No Man”; “Always in My Heart”; “Another Night”

“Beany the Bunny”; “Beautiful Girls”; “Better for Both of Us”; “Better Think Twice”; “Blue Hour”

“Cameo a la Francaise”; “Camp Camp Campin' on Your Doorstep”; “Charlie's Home”; “Chiquette”; “Collegiate Sam”; “Cross Your Fingers”

“Dancing and Dreaming”; “Deauville”; “Doin' the Suzy-Q”; “Don't Fall in Love with Me”; “Don't Say It if You Don't Mean It”; “Down the Road To Maryland”; “Dream Shadows”; “Don't Throw Me Down”; “Dream Time”; “The Drumstick Parade”

“Easter Nocturne”; “Everything's Ok with Me”; “Eyeful of You”

“Falling in Love with You”; “Fascinating Lady”; “Flappers on Parade”; “Flexatone”; “For All We Know”; “Frisco Flo”; “From Forest to Flowers (In Just Eight Hours)” [Respectfully Dedicated to Eastern Air Lines]

“The Girl in the Front Porch Swing”; “Go South Young Man”; “God Is My Friend”; “Golden Gates Of Happiness”; “Goodbye Again”; “Goodbye Mama (I'm Off to Yokohama)”; “Good Luck, Sweetheart”; “Gosh Darn”

“Heart of a Rose”; “Here Come the Clowns”; “Here Comes My Ball and Chain”; “Here's Hoping”; “Here's to the Flag”; “Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man”; “The Highland Swing”; “Hilltop Haven”; “Home Town Blues”; “Honey Be My Honey Bee”; “A Hot Dog, a Blanket and You”; “How I've Missed You Mary”; “How My Sweetie Loves Me”

“I Believe in Santa Claus”; “I Cannot Tell You Why”; “I Knew You When”; “ I Lost My Job Again”; “I Miss a Little Miss”; “I Should Have Known Better”; “I Wonder Who's Under the Moon with You, Tonight”; “I Wonder Why”; “If I Were You”; “I'll Keep on Dreaming of You”; “I'll Stand By”; “I'll Wait for You”; “I'm Down to My Last Dream”; “I'm at the Mercy of Love”; “I'm Gonna Salt Away Some Sugar”; “I'm Gonna Tie Myself to Dixie with the Mason Dixon Line”; “I'm Madly in Love with You”; “I'm on the Right Side of the Right Girl Now”; “I'm Only Making Believe”; “I'm Referin' Just to Her'n and Me”; “I'm Still Yours”; “I'm That Way Over You”; “I'm Thirsty for Kisses, Hungry for Love”; “I'm Yours”; “In a Little Roadside Rendezvous”; “In My Estimation of You”; “In My Little Red Book”; “In Sweetheart Time”; “In the Land of Lemonade and Lollipops”; “In the Candle Light”; “Innocent Eyes”; ”Is It Just a Summer Romance”; “It Never Dawned on Me”; “It Was the Dawn of Love”; “It Was Written in the Stars”; “It's Gettin' the Best of Me”; “It's Mating Time”; “It's You I Love”; “I've Got a Watch”

“Jean, the Campus Queen”; “Jimmie”; “Just Another Kiss”; “Just to Make a Long Story Short”

“The Kiss That Made a Fool Out of Me”

“Lady; Let's Dream”; “Let's Stop the Clock”; “Lilies of the Field”; “Liliput” [sic]; “A Little Bit of Happiness”; “A Little Robin Told Me So”; “Lost (Without You)”; “Louisiana”; “Love Me Fortissimo”; “A Love Tale of Alsace-Lorraine”; “Lucita”

“Mama Nicolini”; “Mary (I'm in Love with You)”; “Me and My Teddy Bear”; “Mine to Love”; “Moonlight Madness”; “The Moonlight Parade”; “The Music Making Man”; “My Carolina Hideaway”; “My Day Begins and Ends with You”; “My Dream Song”; “My Little Dream Boat”; “My Little Swanee Sue”; “My Middle Name Is Love”; “My Rose”; “My Topic of Conversation Is You”

“The Newport Glide”; “No One As Lucky As Me”; “Not Yet Suzette”

“Old Fashioned Gown”; “Old Fireplace”; “On a Chill-Chill-Chilly Night”; “One Little Drink-0 I Go Boom”; “One Minute to One”; “One More Dream”; “One More Tear over You”; “Oriental Memories”; “Out Where the Moonbeams Are Born”

“Pastel for Piano”; “Picketing the Old Plantation”; “Poor Ballerina”; “The Promenade Walk”

“The Rangers Victory Song”; “Red Hot and Blue Rhythm”; “Remembering You”; “The Road of Dreams”; “Romany Rover”; “Round Evening”

“Sail with Simmons (And See the Sea)”; “Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town”; “Savage Rhythm”; “Say Something”; “Sharing”; “She Said No! No! No! in November”; “She's a Gorgeous Thing”; “She's So Nice”; “The Sidewalk Waltz”; “Sleepytime Soldier Boy”; “Somewhere East of Sunrise”; “Sort o' Lonesome”; “Southland Serenade”; “Speakin' of the Devil”; “Starlight Enchantment”; “Stella; Strangers”; “Style”; “Sunday”; “Sweet Cuban Love”; “Sweet Dreams”; “Sweetheart of Sweet Sixteen”; “Swiss Yodeler Waltz”

“Take a Little Stroll with Me”; “Take My Kiss to Dreamland with You”; “Tell Me with Tulips”; “That's Me Without You”; “That's the Meaning of Love Dear to Me”; “The More I Know You”; “That's What You Mean to Me”; “There's a Little Bit of Devil in Your Angel Eyes”; “There's a New World A-Comin'”; “There's a Robin Round the Corner”; “There's Honey on the Moon Tonight”; “There's Something in Sympathy”; “Things Might Have Been So Different”; “This Time It's Love”; “Tie a Rainbow Round Your Heart”; “Tillie the Toiler”; “Time Will Tell”; “To Be with You”; “Tomorrow's Another Day”; “Trying to Forget”

“Under a Shady Tree with You”; “Under Your Window”

“Venetian Wedding Moon”; “Vilma”

“Wasn't It Fate”; “We Only Love Once”; “What Do I Have to Do”; “When?”; “When a Regular Boy Loves a Regular Girl”; “When Love Grows Cold”; “When My Baby Talks That Double-Talk to Me”; “When the Teddy Bears Go Marching on Parade”; “When You First Ate an Olive”; “Where Are You Tonight”; “Whistle in the Rain”; “Whispering Trees”; “White Rose--Red Rose”; “Who Loves You”; “Whose Honey Are You?”; “Why?”; “Why Is Love?”; “Why Should We Be Wasting Time?”; “Won't You Please Help Me Find My Little Heinie?”; “Wrap Up Your Dreams in the Red, White and Blue”

“You Bet I Do”; “You Can Bet Your Life It's Love”; “You Never Can Tell About Love”; “You Oughta No”; “You'll Get By”; “You're a Darlin'”; “You're a Mystery to Me”; “You're Everything Beautiful”; “You're Just Another Memory”; “You're Mine in My Memories”; “Yours Truly Is Truly Yours”

Miscellaneous

Folio Music

French Songs

Music Hall Songs, circa 1910

Songs sung by J. Fred Coots (i.e., the covers of which bear his photograph)

If I Were Queen vocal score

Sitting Pretty vocal score and script

Coots's sheet music, season of 1922-1923
Scope and Content Note: Includes Spice of 1922, Hello Everybody, and Sally, Irene and Mary.

Series: Photographs and Memorabilia

Laminated photograph of J. Fred Coots

Scrapbook
Scope and Content Note: A collection of clippings, providing a detailed picture of Coots's career. No attempt has been made to put the clippings in chronological or subject order.

Laminated photograph of ASCAP board , [1923]
Scope and Content Note: At the piano, Victor Herbert; background, left to right: Gustave Kerker, Raymond Hubbell, Harry Tierney, Louis A. Hirsch, Rudolf Friml, Robert Hood Bowers, Sylvio Hein, A. Baldwin Sloane, Irving Berlin. The photograph is reproduced in Stanley Green, The World of Musical Comedy (1962), from which the date and caption.

Souvenir program of testimonial dinner for Gene Buck, autographed by W.C. Handy, Frank Hague, Jim Farley, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert O. Hoover, Deems Taylor, William Gaxton, and Harry Hirschfield

Unmounted photographs
Scope and Content Note: Including, among others, Rubinoff and his violin; Irene Sordoni; Cab Calloway; J. Fred Coots; William Gaxton; Eddie Dowling; Fay Dooley [Mrs. Eddie Dowling]; Helen Kane.

Portrait of J. Fred Coots, pastel, unsigned [circa 1923?]

Series: Disc Recordings
Note: The first twelve albums listed below contain recordings of which one side at least contains a song by J. Fred Coots. Album #13 contains miscellaneous home recordings, and Album #14 contains twelve-inch recordings of a diverse nature.

“Apple Pie Guy”

“At the Bottom of the Hill”/“I'm Thru Saying I'm Thru”

“Arkansas”/“The Last Time I Saw Mary”

“Balalaika Boogie”

“The Beautiful Girls of Vienna”/“The Little Ballerina”

“A Beautiful Lady in Blue”/“I'm Madly in Love with You”

“The Bluest Word I Know Is Lonesome”/“I'll Never Let You Cry”

“A Boy in Buckskin”

“Burn Fire Wood Burn”/“When I Wanna Woo”

“Cannot Tell You Why”/“Here Lies Love”

“Camp Meetin'”/“One More Tear”

“Copper Colored Gal”/“The Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Swing”

“Cross Your Fingers”/“May I Say I Love You”

“Dancing and Dreaming”/“The Breeze”

“Doin' the Racoon”/“It Goes Like This”

“Dream Shadows”/“Hollywood Holiday”

“Dream Time”/“The Scene Changes”

“Du Bist Mine Kleiner Tzotzkelluh”/“Darling You Make It So”

“Encore Cherie”/“(It Only Takes) A Little Imagination”

“Encore, Cherie”/“Dream Girl”

“Encore, Cherie”/“The Dickey-Bird Song”

“Encore, Cherie”/“Baby Face”

“For All We Know”/“Say It”

“For All We Know”/“Nature Boy”

“Fortune Tellin' Man”/“The Lady Is a Tramp”

“Frisco Flo”/“The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man”

“Gloria's Birthday Party”

“Goodbye Mama (I'm Off to Yokohama)”/“You're a Sap, Mr. Jap”

“Hansel and Gretel”

“Hawaiian Eyes”/“Susquehanna Shore”

“He'll Be Coming Down the Chimney”/“Christmas Chopsticks”

“Here Comes My Ball and Chain”/“Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You?”

“Hi-De-Ho Romeo”/“Moon at Sea”

“Home Town Blues”/“You May Be “Fast” But Your Mamma's Gonna Slow You Down”

“How My Sweetie Loves Me”/“If You'll Come Back”

“I Adore Eleanor”/“Because I Love You”

“I Can't Rub You Out of My Eyes”/“It's Sad, But True”

“I Beg Your Pardon”

“I Can't Believe It Was All Make Believe”/“My Melancholy Baby”

“I Knew You When”/“Infatuation”

“I Lost My Job Again”/“Chickery Chick”

“I Love You”

“I Still Get a Thrill”/“Mam'selle”

“I Still Get a Thrill”

“I Want a Girl Like Annie Laurie”

“I'd Like to Find You in My Stocking”/“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”

“If I Loved You More”/“Like a Monkey Likes Coconuts”

“If I Should Love Again”/“Please Play Our Song”

“I'll Stand By”/“Love Came Out of the Night”

“I'll Wait for You Forever”/“Quality Folks”

“I'll Wait for You Forever”/“I'm Home Again”

“I'm Afraid to Love You”/“The Smile of a Clown”

“I'm Always in the Mood for You”/“She's Tall, She's Tan, She's Terrific”

“I'm Gonna Salt Away Some Sugar”/“Blue Eyes”

“I'm Grateful to You”/“Why Do I Lie to Myself about You?”

“I'm Grateful to You”/“Where There's You There's Me”

“I'm Madly in Love with You”/“Miss Hallelujah Brown”

“I'm Madly in Love with You”/“Zee Leetle Man with de Big Sombrero”

“I'm Madly in Love with You”

“In My Estimation of You”/“What's the Name of That Song”

“Innocent Eyes”/“Say It Again”

“Is It Just a Summer Romance?”/“That's What You Think”

“Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?”/“I Nearly Let You Slip Through My Fingers”

“Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?”/“No Greater Love”

“It Don't Mean a Thing without You”/“When My Dreams Come True”

“It Looks Like an Early Fall”/“Something to Remember”

“It Never Dawned on Me”/“When the Leaves Bid the Trees Goodbye”

“It Was the Dawn of Love”

“It Was the Dawn of Love”/“The Church Bells Are Ringing for Mary”

“It Was the Dawn of Love”/“What D'ya Say”

“It's Too Late Now”/“You're So Understanding”

“It's Wonderful to Be in Love Again”/“I've Got My Arms Wrapped Around a Rainbow”

“Just Another Kiss”/“When Dreams Come True”

“Let's Be Friends”

“Let's Make Memories Tonight”/“Why Let a Lie Break Your Heart?”

“Let's Stop the Clock”/“Romance Runs in the Family”

“Let's Stop the Clock”/“Little Sir Echo”

“Little Johnny Chicadee”/“Tweedle-Dee the Clown”

“Little Johnny Chicadee”/“He'll Be Coming Down the Chimney”

“Little Polly Parakeet”

“Little Sally One-Shoe”/“Hatchy Malatchy”

“Love Did a Mombo”

“Me and My Teddy Bear”/“I Found My Mama”

“Mama Nicolini”/“You're So Simpatico”

“Mine to Love”

“Mexican Sombrero Dance”/“Music Box Fantasy”

“Moonlight Madness”/“Nagasaki”

“Moonlight Madness”/“If You Won't Love Me”

“Moonlight Madness”/“King for a Day”

“Moonlight Madness”/“Ten Little Miles from Town”

“Moonlight Madness”/“Revenge”

“My Day Begins and Ends with You”/“A Blues Serenade”

“My Hawaiian Melody”/“Little Girl”

“My Hawaiian Melody”/“Hawaii”

“My Little Dream Boat”/“If I Could Look Into Your Eyes”

“Not Yet Suzette”/“Lonesome”

“Whose Izzy Is He, Is He Yours or Is He Mine?”/“Not Yet Suzette”

“One More Dream”/“Feelin' High and Happy”

“Our Escapade”

“Poor Ballerina”/“Make-Believe Island”

“Poor Ballerina”/“Let There Be Love”

“A Precious Little Thing Called Love”/“Me and My Shadow”

“A Precious Little Thing Called Love”/“I Faw Down and Go Boom”

“The Promenade Walk”/“Cecilia”

“The Promenade Walk”/“Sugar Plum”

“Row, Row with Roosevelt”

“Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town”/“Jingle Bells”

“Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town”/“Jingle Bells”

“Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town”/“Jingle Bells”

“The Schenley Serenade”/“The Blatz Beer Boogie”

“The Sidewalk Waltz”/“When It's Lamp Lightin' Time in the Valley”

“Sippin' Cider with My Ida”

“Summer Souvenirs”/“Zigzag”

“There Goes My Runaway Heart”

“There's a New World A-Comin'”/“A Son of God's Country”

“There's Honey on the Moon Tonight”/“On the Bumpy Road to Love”

“Things Might Have Been So Different”/“Why Have a Fallin' Out?”

“This Time It's Love”/“You or No One”

“This Time It's Love”/“To-Morrow”

“Time of the Evening”

“Tonight”/“Why?”

“Unidentified Song”/“Trade Me Your Heart”

“Two Tickets to Georgia”/“Linger a Little Longer in the Twilight”

“Under Your Window”/“In the Dark of the Moon”

“Until Today”/“Knock, Knock, Who's There?”

“Wait Till I Catch You in My Dreams”/“I'll Pray For You”

“The Wedding of Jack and Jill”

“When It's Lilac Time in Tokio”/“Dear Little Boy of Mine”

“Whistle in the Rain”/“When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobin' Along”

“The White Heather”/“Weeping Willow Lane”

“The White Heather”/“Carolina Sunshine”

“Who Loves You?”/“Did You Mean It?”

“Who'll Tie the Bell?”/“The Syncopated Clock”

“Why Let a Lie”/“Young and Foolish”

“Why Let a Lie”

“You Don't Have to Drop a Heart to Break It”/“Around the World”

“You Go to My Head”/“I Can't Face the Music”

“You Go to My Head”/“Deep in My Heart Dear”

“You Go to My Head”/“I Don't Know Why”

“You Happened to Me”

“You Started Me Dreaming”/“Robins and Roses”

“You'll Be There”

“You're So Simpatico”/“I'll Shut Out Love”

“Yours Truly Is Truly Yours”/“Wah-Hoo”

“Yours Truly Is Truly Yours”/“The Touch of Your Lips”

Miscellaneous Home Recordings

Abbott and Costello

Abbott and Costello/Walter Winchell

Jack Benny

Christmas Eve at the Coots Home/“Boccacio”
Note: See Royalty Contracts for “Boccacio”

Unidentified

Divertissements

Raymond Gram Swing [Analysis of German Attack on Russia, 1941 June]

Kraft Music Hall (Bing Crosby and Kay Kaiser

The J. Fred Coots Melody

Fred Allen/“Do You Care?”

Twelve Inch Recordings

“Control Yourself”

“God's Everything” and “In the Land of Lemonade and Lollipops”/Bill Stern Commercials

“If I Should Love Again”

“I'll Come to You”

“It's Never Too Warm to Wear Mink”

“Gems from Madam Sherry”/“Gems from the Quaker Girl”

Lou and Dave Marx Birthday Party [The Toy Tycoons; Imitations of Fred Allen, Charles Boyer, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper]

“Me and My Pussy Cat”

“Oh, Lady, Lady”/“The Rainbow Girl”

“On the Trail”/“Peals on Velvet”

Record of TV Show, WJZ (New York), 1950 May 12--Performances of “Tonight” [by Coots]

“You'll Be There”

“With God's Hand in Mine”

“You're So Simpatico”