Hal Hopper Music (2 results)

No Binding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages Show Moderate Page Wear; Slight Yellowing; Few Creases; Faded Soft Cover With White Lettering And Image Of Singer On Front. Verse And Chorus. Love Song.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Vintage 1944 popular song sheet music for 'There's No You,' with lyrics by Tom Adair and music by Hal Hopper, published by Barton Music Corp., New York. The cover features singer and radio performer Eileen Barton in a striking sepia-toned photographic portrait typical of wartime-era American popular music publishing. Interior includes piano-vocal arrangement with lyrics and period publisher advertisements on the rear cover for other Barton Music titles including works by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne. Condition is Very Good overall. Covers show mild to moderate handling wear, light creasing, and gentle edge rubbing consistent with age. Interior music pages remain clean and complete with no major tears or loss observed. Small contemporary annotation ('transpose to key of C') appears on the first music page margin, adding period musician-use character without obscuring notation. Fold remains secure and fully intact. An attractive and well-preserved example for collectors of 1940s vocal sheet music and popular-song ephemera. This item is housed and ships in a protective, archival sleeve. Tom Adair (1913-1988) was an American lyricist and screenwriter who collaborated on numerous jazz and popular standards during the 1940s and 1950s. Hal Hopper (born Harold Stevens Hopper, 1912-1970) was an American singer, songwriter, and composer whose work spanned the 1940s through the 1960s. As a member of the vocal harmony group The Pied Pipers and later as a soloist, he contributed to both popular recordings and film/TV themes. Eileen Barton (1924-2006) was a radio and nightclub singer best remembered for her 1950 novelty hit 'If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake,' and her appearance here reflects her early career prominence during the big-band era.…