Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

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Biography/History

Arrangement of the Materials

Appendix 1: Discography

Appendix 2: Bibliography of Published Sheet Music

Container	Title
	Subseries: Song Manuscripts and Lyric Typescripts
	General
	J. Fred Coots, 1939-1971, undated
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Al Jolson Music Memorial” (arrangement)
Box 10 Folder 3	“Alexander's Ragtime Band” (arrangement)
Box 10 Folder 3	“And I Thought of You”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Bambino”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Baskin' Out in the Sun”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Be My Lovin' Baby”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Before I Saw You Eat”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Blame It All on Georgia”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Call of the Wild”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Cat in a Birdcage”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Caught in a Cloudburst of Love”
Box 10 Folder 3	“A Change of Scenery”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Cheers”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Come Back to Roma”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Connecticut State Police”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Copenhagen Polka”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Cora's in the Chorus” Note: See “Sally's in the Chorus”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Cornet on the Cob”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Curtain Falls”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Dale Sutton Medley (arrangement)
Box 10 Folder 3	“Dark Glasses”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Donna Marie”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Don't Make a Human Out of Me”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Dream Street”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Drink, Drink, Drink”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Ev'rybody's Falling in Love”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Fall in Love”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Farmer Gray”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Florence Nightingale”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Florida”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Follow the Flag of Freedom”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Forgotten Melody”
Box 10 Folder 3	“French” Note: See also “I Feel Like Dancing with You To-Night”
Box 10 Folder 3	“French Tune” Note: See “The Night Has Eyes”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Gay Divorcee”
Box 10 Folder 3	“German Bierstuben Valse”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Get Acquainted with an Old Gold Cigarette”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Girls I Met in Gay Paree”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Good-Night, Good Friends”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Good Waltz” Note: See “Come Back to Roma”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Goodbye My Love”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Guest Star”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Happiest Guy in the World”
Box 10 Folder 3	“A Heaven on the Hill”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Here Comes Marie” Note: See “I Feel Like Dancing with You To-Night”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Here Comes the Summertime”
Box 10 Folder 3	“High Society Jimmy”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Horn and Hardart”
Box 10 Folder 3	“How Can I Tell You (How Much I Love You)”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I Can Hear Those Christmas Bells”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I Feel I'm Falling in Love with You”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I Feel Like Dancing with You To-Night”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I Hope She'll Be Happy”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I Hope There's Room for One More”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I Love You - You Love Me” Note: See “Forgotten Melody”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I Thank You”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I'd Be So Happy”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I'd Rather Be Alone”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I'll Come to You”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I'm Gonna Change It All”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Irving Berlin Story in Song” (arrangement)
Box 10 Folder 3	“It Takes All Kinds of People”
Box 10 Folder 3	“It Takes the Moonlight (For Making Love)”
Box 10 Folder 3	“It Was Written in the Stars”
Box 10 Folder 3	“It's Wonderful to Be in Love Again”
Box 10 Folder 3	“It's You”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I've Got My Arms Wrapped around a Rainbow”
Box 10 Folder 3	“I've Really Some Very Nice Friends”
Box 10 Folder 3	“The Jack Arthur Medley” (arrangement)
Box 10 Folder 3	“Kleinchen”
Box 10 Folder 3	“Klondike Mary”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Let a Jane Mansfield Dream Pool (Make All Your Dreams Come True)”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Let My Lips Remember You”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Let's Back Jack”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Let's Bake a Cake
Box 10 Folder 4	“Let's Have a Party”
Box 10 Folder 4	“The Lighthouse Keeper
Box 10 Folder 4	“The Little Dutch Girl”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Little Red Riding Hood on Broadway”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Losing You”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Louie's Ermine Wrap”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Love”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Love Is - “
Box 10 Folder 4	“Love, Love, Beautiful Love”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Love Me - Love Me - Love Me”
Box 10 Folder 4	untitled (“The Man with the Fiddle and the Bow Tie”)
Box 10 Folder 4	“Manhattan Mountaineer”
Box 10 Folder 4	“March Ensemble (opening)”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Middle Release”
Box 10 Folder 4	“The Million Dollar Hat”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Mine to Love”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Mister Branigan”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Mon Homme LaFitte”
Box 10 Folder 4	“The More I See You, the More I Know” Note: See “Cat in a Birdcage”
Box 10 Folder 4	“My Heart (Keeps Calling Your Heart)”
Box 10 Folder 4	“My Little Lady (Has a Coat that Grows)” [Coatcraft]
Box 10 Folder 4	“Old Fashioned Song Medley” (arrangement)
Box 10 Folder 4	“Old Gold” [cigarette]
Box 10 Folder 4	“Old Gold” [cigarette] Note: See “An Old Gold Is Like an Old Friend”
Box 10 Folder 4	“An Old Gold Is Like an Old Friend”
Box 10 Folder 4	“On the Ten-o-Ten (for Ten-Ten-Tennessee)”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Oo-la-la Cecile”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Paradise Island”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Please Save the Last Waltz for Me” Note: See “I Feel Like Dancing with You To-Night”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Paree!” Note: See “Love, Love, Beautiful Love”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Production Valse” Note: See “The Little Dutch Girl”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Pussy Cat Jamboree”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Rollin' Stone”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Rosie O'Clooney”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Sail with Simmons (And See the Sea)”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Sally's in the Chorus”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Seagram's Extra Dry”
Box 10 Folder 4	“The Sid Gary Story” Note: See “Tin Pan Alley Serenade”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Silhouette Sweetheart”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Simmons Follies”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Soliloquy of a Somnambulist”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Splitsville” Note: See “Let My Lips Remember You”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Stay Home, Little Girl, Stay Home”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Strange Faces”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Sunday School Sweetheart”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Suzanne”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Tell Me You Love Me”
Box 10 Folder 4	“That's What It Takes to Make a Star”
Box 10 Folder 4	“That's What Little Girls Are Made For”
Box 10 Folder 4	“That's What Love Is Made of”
Box 10 Folder 4	“There Goes That Girl”
Box 10 Folder 4	“There Must Be Somebody for Me”
Box 10 Folder 4	“There's Only One Way to Say I Love You”
Box 10 Folder 4	untitled (“They're Not Writing Songs Like They Used to Anymore”)
Box 10 Folder 4	untitled (“They're So Cantankerous”)
Box 10 Folder 4	“This Is Your Show (Finale)”
Box 10 Folder 4	“This Night in Venice with You”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Three Hundred Pounds Ago”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Till We Love Again” Note: See “Cat in a Birdcage”
Box 10 Folder 4	untitled (“Tin Pan Alley on Parade”) (arrangement)
Box 10 Folder 4	“Tin Pan Alley Serenade” (also known as “The Sid Gary Story”)
Box 10 Folder 4	“Tony Spagoni”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Touché”
Box 10 Folder 4	untitled tune
Box 10 Folder 4	“Valse Production” Note: See “Cat in a Birdcage”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Wait'll You See My Sweetie and Me in My Chrysler Automobile”
Box 10 Folder 4	“We're the Gals Behind the Guys Behind the Guns”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Western”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Western Song” Note: See “Cat in a Birdcage”
Box 10 Folder 4	“What's Gonna Happen to the Beautiful Girls?”
Box 10 Folder 4	“When Angelina Shakes her Tamborina”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Where the Spanish Onions Grow”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Wherever You Are at Christmas (I'll Be There with You)”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Whistle'n Jim”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Who Am I? Who Are You?”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Winter in Washington Square”
Box 10 Folder 4	“The Witch Song”
Box 10 Folder 4	“With All My Heart and Soul”
Box 10 Folder 4	“With My Song”
Box 10 Folder 4	“You Meet the Nicest People at the Race Track”
Box 10 Folder 4	untitled (“You're Only As Good As Your Material”)
Box 10 Folder 4	“You're Here” Note: See “Forgotten Melody”
Box 10 Folder 4	“Yours Could Be the Love”
	J. Fred Coots with Edward Eager, undated, 1955-1959
Box 10 Folder 5	“Arizona”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Cheerful Weather for the Wedding”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Goodbye Stranger”
Box 10 Folder 5	“It's Twelve O'Clock, My Love”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Java Jive”
Box 10 Folder 5	“The Lady with the Big Black Cigar”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Love in a Mist”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Love on Top of a Bus”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Love Opened My Eyes”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Mignonette”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Mud in Your Eye”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Passion Fruit”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Rings on Her Finger”
Box 10 Folder 5	“She Walks in Beauty”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Sigh No More, Ladies”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Slumming on Miami's Shore
Box 10 Folder 5	“Someone Lovely Just Passed By”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Sugar Cane”
Box 10 Folder 5	“Whistlin' Girl”
	J. Fred Coots with Walt Framer, undated, 1953-1956
Box 10 Folder 6	“The Greatest Man on Earth”
Box 10 Folder 6	“It's Never Too Warm to Wear Mink”
Box 10 Folder 6	“Let's Take a Holiday for Two”
Box 10 Folder 6	“Love Is the Pay Off”
	J. Fred Coots with Gene and Glenn, undated
Box 10 Folder 7	“Send Her Some Flowers”
Box 10 Folder 7	“Side by Side by the Beautiful Seaside”
Box 10 Folder 7	“Sweethearts in the Summer (Strangers in the Fall)”
Box 10 Folder 7	“To-day, To-night and To-morrow”
Box 10 Folder 7	“Toodle-oodle-oo”
Box 10 Folder 7	“When I Get Back to Caroline”
	J. Fred Coots with Haven Gillespie, 1957-1967
Box 10 Folder 8	“Christmas Doll”
Box 10 Folder 8	“Sing”
Box 10 Folder 8	“The Wine of Love”
Box 10 Folder 8	“You Happened to Me”
	J. Fred Coots with Nick and Charles Kenny, 1956-1957
Box 10 Folder 9	“I'd Like to Find You in My Stocking”
Box 10 Folder 9	“If You Could Care a Little Bit More for Me”
Box 10 Folder 9	“Where Are You Gonna Go on Your Vacation?”
	J. Fred Coots with Bill Margaretten, undated, 1956-1962
Box 10 Folder 10	“Another Night, Another Dream” Note: See “High as a Kite”
Box 10 Folder 10	“But Not So Long in My Heart”
Box 10 Folder 10	“Cha Cha Cha Romance”
Box 10 Folder 10	“Here Comes Love and Kisses” Note: See “High as a Kite”
Box 10 Folder 10	“High as a Kite”
Box 10 Folder 10	“I Like Your Attitude”
Box 10 Folder 10	“I'm Looking Forward”
Box 10 Folder 10	“Love Is Just a Dream Away”
Box 10 Folder 10	“Love Me Fortissimo”
Box 10 Folder 10	“May I Walk You Home?”
Box 10 Folder 10	“The Sweetest Words” Note: See “High as a Kite”
Box 10 Folder 10	“Today's the Day”
Box 10 Folder 10	“When the Last Little Star Goes Home” Note: See “High as a Kite”
Box 10 Folder 10	“When You're All Alone in Love”
Box 10 Folder 10	“Yours to Love”
	J. Fred Coots with Ogden Nash, 1960, undated
Box 10 Folder 11	“Incompatibility”
Box 10 Folder 11	“Matador”
	J. Fred Coots with Al J. Neiburg, 1956-1964, undated
Box 10 Folder 12	“Bonsoir, Cheri”
Box 10 Folder 12	“I'm Gonna Spread My Wings”
Box 10 Folder 12	“In a Cup of Tea Leaves”
Box 10 Folder 12	“It's Too Early to Tell”
Box 10 Folder 12	“Nineteen Hundred and Sixty”
Box 10 Folder 12	“Sad and Sorry”
Box 10 Folder 12	“Seeing You with Somebody Else”
	J. Fred Coots with Charles Newman, 1951-1959, undated
Box 10 Folder 13	“Dream on, My Hopeful Heart”
Box 10 Folder 13	“Forty Eight Sweethearts”
Box 10 Folder 13	“Hermit in the Heart of Town”
Box 10 Folder 13	“I'm Building Castles Again”
Box 10 Folder 13	“In Cin-Cin-Cincinnati”
Box 10 Folder 13	“My Apple Pie Guy”
Box 10 Folder 13	“My New Romance”
Box 10 Folder 13	“My Waltz”
	J. Fred Coots with Maurice Sigler, 1956-1959, undated
Box 10 Folder 14	“Don't Wait Too Long”
Box 10 Folder 14	“It Was Fun While It Lasted”
Box 10 Folder 14	“Man about Town”
Box 10 Folder 14	“My Chickadee”
Box 10 Folder 14	“Quality Folks”
Box 10 Folder 14	“There's a Lull in Lullaby Lane”
Box 10 Folder 14	“When I Wanna Woo (I Go to You for Love)”
	J. Fred Coots with other lyricists/cowriters, 1952-1964, undated
Box 11 Folder 1	“All Suit! No Man!”
Box 11 Folder 1	“A Ball Was Had by All”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Along the Prado”
Box 11 Folder 1	“As Long as I've a Song to Sing”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Can't Get You off My Mind”
Box 11 Folder 1	“(Holy Jeepers Creepers) Can't We Ever Be Alone?”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Chicken Croquettes”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Corn Meal Mush and Sorghum Molasses”
Box 11 Folder 1	“The Curtain Is Falling”
Box 11 Folder 1	“D.J. Ghost”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Esmeralda Has a Date”
Box 11 Folder 1	“The Fisherman's Bride”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Give Your Heart to Me for Christmas”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Got Me a Blue-Eyed Baby”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Hank, the Whip”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Have You No Pity on Me?”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Heap Big Drip from the Cherokee Strip”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Helas!”
Box 11 Folder 1	“His Hand Is on Your Shoulder”
Box 11 Folder 1	“If They Made Me”
Box 11 Folder 1	“I'm Not Here”
Box 11 Folder 1	“In the Old Rope Swing”
Box 11 Folder 1	“In Your Eyes”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Is It Just for To-Night? (Or Is It Forever?)”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Let's Go Over to Charlie's Before We Say Goodnight”
Box 11 Folder 1	“A Little Café in Calais”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Mary, Go 'Round with Me”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Monte Carlo Calling”
Box 11 Folder 1	“The Moon on the Nurs'ry Floor”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Moonlight in Madrid”
Box 11 Folder 1	“More than Wonderful”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Music to My Ears”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Must I Be Bound (And You Go Free)” Note: See “My Heart (Keeps Calling Your Heart)”
Box 11 Folder 1	“The Night Has Eyes”
Box 11 Folder 1	“On a Little Street in Napoli”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Our Escapade”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Sing to Your Heart's Content”
Box 11 Folder 1	“So I'll Never Be a Millionaire”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Somebody Stole That Old Sweetheart of Mine”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Song of the Sewing Machine” [Singer]
Box 11 Folder 1	“Thanks For the Use of Your Heart”
Box 11 Folder 1	“That Mysterious Lady Called Love”
Box 11 Folder 1	“There Goes My Runaway Heart”
Box 11 Folder 1	“This Feelin' for You”
Box 11 Folder 1	“To Have, to Hold, to Love!”
Box 11 Folder 1	“To-night I'll Kiss “Hello” Again”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Trade Me Your Heart”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Ty Cobb (The Georgia “Peach”)”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Underneath the “Kiss'l-Toe””
Box 11 Folder 1	“When We're Together”
Box 11 Folder 1	“The World Is Waiting to Sing Again”
Box 11 Folder 1	“Wrap Up Your Worries in a Great Big Smile”
Box 11 Folder 1	“You Could Have Heard a Pin Drop”
Box 11 Folder 1	“You Waited Too Long”
Box 11 Folder 1	“You're Making Headlines”
	French and British Collaboration, 1962-1964
Box 11 Folder 2	“Bonsoir, cherie”
Box 11 Folder 2	“Mon paradis”
Box 11 Folder 2	“J'ai tant marché”
Box 11 Folder 2	“Parce qu'un homme”
Box 11 Folder 2	“This Was a Man”
	“Kiddie” Songs, 1950-1965
Box 11 Folder 3	“All Around the Christmas Tree”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Apple on a Stick”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Bongo the Camel”
Box 11 Folder 3	“A Boy in Buckskin (and a Gal in Calico)”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Butch, the Rocking Horse Cowboy”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Captain Kangaroo”
Box 11 Folder 3	“A Cowboy Is a Son of God” Note: See “Peter and the Pony”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Cuckoo in the Cuckoo Clock”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Custard the Dragon”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Don't Worry, Peter” Note: See “Peter and the Pony”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Ephraham the Bunny”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Give My Doggie a Name”
Box 11 Folder 3	“Here Come the Bunnies on Parade”
Box 11 Folder 3	“I Can't Spell Hippopotamus”
Box 11 Folder 3	“I Hope Santa Claus Don't Forget Me”
Box 11 Folder 3	“I Love My Mommy Best of All”
Box 11 Folder 3	“I Wish I Had an Elephant”
Box 11 Folder 3	“I Wish I Was a Bunny”
Box 11 Folder 3	“In the Land of Lemonade and Lollipops”
Box 11 Folder 3	“It's Fun to Own a Pony” Note: See “Peter and the Pony”
Box 11 Folder 3	“It's Great to Have a Pony for a Pal” Note: See “Peter and the Pony”
Box 11 Folder 4	“The Lady in the Clock”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Little Goldie Goldfish”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Little Johnny Jelly Beans”
Box 11 Folder 4	“The Little Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Little Pete the Parakeet”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Little Peter Potter (and His Little Teeter Totter)”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Little Polly Parakeet”
Box 11 Folder 4	“The Little Tin Soldier (And the Little Toy Drum)”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Little Tommy Tattle-Tale”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Me and My Puppy Dog”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Me and My Teddy Bear”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Monkey See - Monkey Do”
Box 11 Folder 4	“My Dolly and Me”
Box 11 Folder 4	“My Oompah-pah Pa-Pa”
Box 11 Folder 4	“My Pony's Name Is “Peanut”” Note: See “Peter and the Pony”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Nina the Ballerina”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Ozzie the Ostrich”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Peter and the Pony” Note: Includes story typescript.
Box 11 Folder 4	“Pony on the Merry-Go-Round”
Box 11 Folder 4	“Poor Peter Piper (Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers)”
Box 11 Folder 4	“The Pop Eye Song”
Box 11 Folder 5	“The Santa Claus Parade”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Santa's Little Helper”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Santa's Prayer”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Squee-Gee (The Happy Little Clown)”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Sunrise on a Mountain Trail” Note: See “Peter and the Pony”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Sweet, Sweet Dreams To-night”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Sweetie Bear”
Box 11 Folder 5	“The Toy Town Parade”
Box 11 Folder 5	“The Toy Town Trolley”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Toy Town Tune Parade”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Toy Town Tune Time”
Box 11 Folder 5	Toy Town Tune Parade (A Collection of Original Children's Songs)
Box 11 Folder 5	“When the Teddy Bears Go Marching on Parade”
Box 11 Folder 5	“Why Don't Grownups Play with Toys?”