Read 'Em and Weep. The Songs You Forgot To Remember by Spaeth, Sigmund Gotlieb, 1885-1965

Halcyon House, NY [1939]. Hard Cover. xiv, 267 p., index, music, plates; 26 cm. red cloth boards a bit soiled, else VG. Contents include Fashionable Songs of the 'Fifties; Reconstruction Days; The Vogue of Harrigan and Hart; The Golden Age; We Moderns. 'Since this book was first published, in 1926, many tears and laughs have passed under the bridges of even our most supercilious noses. …a sequel was compulsory, almost automatically labelled Weep Some More, My Lady. This was followed in turn by Gentlemen, Be Seated, obviously devoted to the old-fashioned minstrel shows.' Stock# 37,162. American popular music, folk songs, folk music.