All images courtesy of the collection of RICHARD KRAFT except where noted.
Volume One, 1929-1959, Songs and Themes, Piano, Vocal, Guitar; Includes Photos, Stories, and Interviews
Section I: 20s – The Fox Music Department
Twentieth Century-Fox Trademark Fanfare, Alfred Newman
The Fox Movietone News Theme from World Events March, J.S. Zamecnik
Section II: 30s – The Fox Blondes
On the Good Ship Lollipop from Bright Eyes, Sidney Clare, Richard A. Whiting, Shirley Temple
Animal Crackers in My Soup from Curly Top, Ray Henderson, Ted Koehler, Irving Caesar, Shirley Temple
Goodnight, My Love from Stowaway; Mack Gordon, Harry Revel, Shirley Temple, Alice Faye
I’m Shooting High from King of Burlesque, Jimmy McHugh, Ted Koehler, Alice Faye
You Turned the Tables on Me and When Did You Leave Heaven? from Sing, Baby, Sing; Louis Alter, Sidney Mitchell, Richard A. Whiting, Walter Bullock, Alice Faye
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm from On the Avenue, Irving Berlin, Alice Faye, Dick Powell
There’s a Lull in My Life from Wake Up and Live, Mack Gordon, Harry Revel, Alice Faye
Section III: 30s – The Songwriters
Sunny Side Up, B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Janet Gaynor
You Do the Darn’dest Things, Baby from Pigskin Parade, Lew Pollack, Sidney Mitchell, Judy Garland
I’m Marching Along with Time, Now It Can be Told, and My Walking Stick from Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Irving Berlin, Ethel Merman, Alice Faye
I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak from Rose of Washington Square, Mack Gordon, Harry Revel, Alice Faye
Section IV: 40s – The Golden Age
Down Argentina Way, Harry Warren, Carlos Albert, Mack Gordon, Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Spanish
You Say the Sweetest Things, Baby from Tin Pan Alley; Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie
You’ll Never Know from Hello, Frisco, Hello; Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, Alice Faye
My Heart Tells Me, Should I Believe My Heart from Sweet Rosie O’Grady; Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, Betty Grable
I Can’t Begin to Tell You from The Dolly Sisters, James V. Monaco, Mack Gordon, Betty Grable, John Payne
Section V: 40s – The Songwriters & Composers
I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi; I Like You Very Much from That Night in Rio, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, Carmen Miranda, Bande da Lua
At Last, I Got a Gal in Kalamazoo, and Serenade in Blue from Orchestra Wives, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, Glenn Miller, Ray Eberle, Tex Beneke
There Will Never be Another You from Iceland, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, Joan Merrill, Sammy Kaye
The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat and No Love No Nothin’ from The Gang’s All Here, Harry Warren, Leo Robin, Carmen Miranda
The More I See You from Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, Dick Haymes, Betty Grable
On the Boardwalk, In Atlantic City; You Make Me So Young, and This is Always from Three Little Girls in Blue, Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon, Harry Warren, Vivian Blaine, Vera-Ellen, June Haver, Charles Smith, Del Porter, Carol Stewart, George Montgomery, Ben Gage
You Do from Mother Wore, Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon, Dan Daily, Betty Grable
It Might as Well be Spring from State Fair, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Jeanne Crain, Louanne Hogan
All Through the Day from Centennial Summer, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Jeanne Crain, Louanne Hogan
Mam’selle from The Razor’s Edge, Edmund Goulding, Mack Gordon
Give Me the Simple Life from Wake Up and Live, Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby
Again from Road House, Lionel Newman, Dorcas Cochran
Theme from The Song of Bernadette, Alfred Newman
Conquest from Captain from Castille, Alfred Newman
Laura, David Raskin, Johnny Mercer
Forever Amber, David Raskin, Johnny Mercer
Chattanooga Choo Choo from Sun Valley Serenade, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, Glenn Miller, Tex Beneke
I Had the Craziest Dream from Springtime in the Rockies, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon
Stormy Weather, Keeps Rainin’ All the Time and Ain’t Misbehavin’ from Stormy Weather; Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler, Thomas Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Lena Horne
I’m Making Believe from Sweet and Low Down, James V. Monaco, Mack Gordon, Benny Goodman, Lynn Bari, Lorraine Elliott
Section VI: 50s – The Theme Redux
Today, I Love Everybody from The Farmer Takes a Wife; Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Betty Grable
Ain’t There Anyone Here for Love? and Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Adamson, Leo Robin, Jule Styne, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe
River of No Return, Lionel Newman, Ken Darby, Marilyn Monroe
The Girl Can’t Help It, Billy Troup, Little Richard
Section VII: 50s – The Composers
The Best Things in Life are Free, B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North
What Chance Have I with Love? from Call Me Madam, Irving Berlin, Donald O’Connor
A Man Chases a Girl, Until She Catches Him; There’s No Business like Show Business; and After You Get What You Want You, Don’t Want It from There’s No Business like Show Business; Irving Berlin, Donald O’Connor, Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Gaynor
Dat’s Love from Carmen Jones, Georges Bizet, Oscar Hammerstein, Dorothy Dandridge, Marilyn Horne
If I Loved You from Carousel, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones
Getting to Know You from The King and I, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Deborah Kerr, Marni Nixon
My Girl Back Home from South Pacific, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, John Kerr, Bill Lee
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
April Love, Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster, Pat Boone
Section VIII 50s – The Theme Song& Scores
Prelude, Main Title, Theme from The Robe; Alfred Newman
Ruby from Ruby Gentry, Heinz Roemheld, Mitchell Parish
Three Coins in the Fountain, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Frank Sinatra
Theme from Anastasia, Alfred Newman, Paul Francis Webster, George Shearing
An Affair to Remember, Harry Warren, Harold Adamson, Leo McCarey, Vic Damone
Theme from Peyton Place, Franz Waxman, Paul Francis Webster
A Certain Smile, Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster, Johnny Mathis
Main Title from The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bernard Herrmann
Sunrise, Main Title from Journey to the Center of the Earth, Bernard Herrmann
Section IX: 50s – The Future
Love Me Tender, Elvis Presley, Vera Matson
I’ll Remember Tonight from Mardi Gras, Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster, Pat Boone
Hound-Dog Man, Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman, Fabian
Something’s Gotta Give, Johnny Mercer, Fred Astaire
Say One for Me, James Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Bing Crosby