Whether you are a music historian looking to examine the role of popular song in the United States in the 20th century or just looking for a few songs to sing around the piano, the Digital Archive of Popular American Music at UCLA will definitely pique the interest of even the most casual visitors. From their massive collection of close to 450,000 pieces of sheet music, the specialists at the UCLA Music Library have selected over 120 songs to digitize and place online at this site. Visitors can browse the collection by keyword, selected fields (such as composer or title), and date. The songs (which include the intriguing cover pages with their fanciful art) include such favorites as "Down by the Old Mill Stream" and such lesser-known numbers as "Don't Let the Girlies Get You", which was originally popularized by one Kitty Gordon.
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