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Archive: December 2022 (2 Posts)

Sheet music cover for "I'll Be Home for Christmas," registered for copyright on September 28, 1943.

“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”

Posted by: Cait Miller

While Walter Kent and Kim Gannon are the only names credited on the original copyright deposit for the Christmas classic, "I'll be home for Christmas," the label on Crosby's recording credits the song to three names: Kent, Gannon, and Buck Ram. Read about the history of the song and its copyright backstory, illustrated in records from the US Copyright Office. Download the original printed sheet music, registered as an unpublished copyright deposit on September 28, 1943.

Posted in: Copyright Deposits, Holidays, Sheet Music

Black-and-white portrait of Brando in jacket looking directly at camera.

A Look Back at A Streetcar Named Desire

Posted by: Morgen Stevens-Garmon

On December 3, 1947, A Streetcar Named Desire opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City. It was the third full-length play by Tennessee Williams, a 36-year-old writer whose Broadway debut, The Glass Menagerie, was just two years earlier. Streetcar ran for more than two years clocking in at 855 performances, the longest …

Posted in: Composers, Dance, Film Music, Theater