Airship "Cannonball" is leaving by Jess R. Batt
Object Details
- Notes
- "The first and only original aviation war song success!"
- Also published under different title: Come over
- For voice and piano
- Illustrated title page shows monoplanes flying over ocean with ship, cheering crowd on U.S. shore, two men in France looking up with binoculars
- March
- Publisher's advertisement on verso of page 3 has incipits for piano pieces: Victor ragtime band / music by Alphonse E. Bohrer ; words by Julius C. Spiro. Chopsticks : the Chinese one step / John Wentholt. Swiss cheese rag / by Alphonse E. Bohrer. Frasquita tango / by W. Buse. Sous le feuillage / by W. Buse. Scherzo romantico / by Alphonse E. Bohrer. Harmony waltz / by Alphonce Bohror [that is, Alphonse Bohrer]
- Also available online
- Elecresource
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Date
- 1917
- 1911-1920
- 1910-1920
- Call number
- M1 .B4
- Author
- Batt, Jess R
- Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
- Type
- Songs and music
- Advertisements
- Music
- Sheet music covers
- Sheet music
- Physical description
- 1 score (3 pages) 35 cm
- Place
- United States
- Title
- Come on across, come on across, General Pershing's calling me
- Hark amidst the throng of cheers
- Airship Cannonball
- Topic
- Air pilots
- Airplanes
- Airships
- Marches (Voice with piano)
- Popular music
- War songs
- World War, 1914-1918
- Binoculars
- Crowds
- Men
- Monoplanes
- Ships
- American
- Record ID
- siris_sil_978466
