First sheet music publication of The Star Spangled Banner.

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United
States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M’Henry", a
poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September
14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by
the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of
1812. Key was inspired by the large U.S. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly
above the fort after the battle.

The 15-star, 15-stripe "Star-Spangled Banner" that inspired
the poem.

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A century ago, even before the phonograph had become a
a common household item, there was already a burgeoning
music industry in the United States based not on the sale of
recorded musical performances, but on the sale of sheet
music. It was in the medium of printed paper, and not grooved
lacquer or vinyl discs, that songs gained popularity in the first
two decades of the 20th century, and no song gained greater
popularity in that era than Irving Berlin’s “Alexander’s Ragtime
Band.” Copyrighted on March 18, 1911, The song was the
was the multimillion-selling smash hit that helped turn
American popular music into an international phenomenon,
both culturally and economically.

Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin) 
(May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)

"Begin the Beguine" is a popular song written by Cole Porter. It
became such a classic during World War II that Max Beckmann
adopted the title for a painting in 1946 that is now at University
of Michigan Museum of Art (below).

Begin the Beguine painting by Max Beckmann.

Artie Shaw (Arthur Jacob Arshawsky)
(May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004)

The song “Love in Bloom” was first recorded by Bing Crosby with
Irving Aaronson and his Commanders for Brunswick Records. It
was introduced in the 1934 film She Loves Me Not by Bing Crosby
and Kitty Carlisle. 

The song "To Know Him Is to Love Him" was written by Phil Spector, inspired
by words on his father’s tombstone, "To Know Him Was To Love Him." It was
first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member, the Teddy
Bears. Their recording spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100
singles chart in 1958.