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Sheet music:On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe

1945

The Strong National Museum of Play

The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester , United States

Since the middle of the 19th century, Americans purchased pianos in increasing numbers. Families and friends gathered around the piano for evenings of musical fun. Piano players needed sheet music to learn the latest songs and publishers quickly printed everyone's favorite pieces, first in black and white and later with detailed chromolithographed color covers. The advent of radio and even television simply increased public awareness of hit songs, and the production of sheet music still grew. Eventually, use of sheet music lessened along with the popularity of home pianos in the middle and later 20th century. Radio, phonographs, and personal listening devices began to replace the piano in the parlor. The song "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" was written for the MGM movie "The Harvey Girls" and was performed by Judy Garland. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1946.

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  • Title: Sheet music:On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
  • Date Created: 1945
  • Location: New York, NY
  • Subject Keywords: music, train, railroad, Judy Garland
  • Type: Entertainment and Music
  • Medium: printed paper
  • Object ID: 111.5125
  • Credit Line: Gift of Rita P. Kuder
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