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By What Lost Campfire

Description: Sheet music for "By What Lost Campfire," for mezzo soprano. The poem is written by Arthur Sampley and the music is by George Minter. The lyrics are "By what lost camp fire/ what lone height did deserts streching [sic] far, what/ comrades faces framed in light guide western star./ Up slopes I shall not/ climb again down trails the grasses hide, past/ camps where sleeping friends have lain too late to/ ride. to one dark peak a-/ gainst the sky on which the faint trail ends./ guide star and camp … more
Date: June 1948
Creator: Sampley, Arthur & Minter, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

I Shall Walk Proudly

Description: Sheet music for "I Shall Walk Proudly;" the poem was written by Arthur Sampley and the music is by Gerhardt Dorn. The lyrics say "I shall/ walk proudly through these lonely/ ways because I once walked proudly by your side/ not even death can rob me of the bride whose beauty/ made man love and woman praise. I wear with pride the/ splendor that you shed upon my days./ So walks a warrior's steed behind the pall and so the aide behind the/ nation's head and so the bridesmaid to the wedding strain,… more
Date: March 1955
Creator: Sampley, Arthur & Dorn, Gerhardt
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

The Visitor

Description: Sheet music for "The Visitor," for tenor voice. The poem is written by Arthur Sampley and the music is by George Minter. The lyrics concern a dream wherein a man encounters the boy he once was - interested in freedom, truth, love, and fame instead of the heavenly.
Date: 1951
Creator: Sampley, Arthur & Minter, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Musical Opening Choruses, Finales and Production Numbers for Soldier Shows

Description: A selection of opening choruses, choral finales, sketches with comedy songs, and miniature musical comedies, mostly excerpted from pre-existing Broadway shows with lyrics adapted to Army, Navy, or Marine Corps themes. Soldiers were encouraged to incorporate these numbers into their own shows, adapting them further as needed, and to use them as inspiration for writing their own original numbers.
Date: 1943
Creator: Writers and Material Committee of Camp Shows, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Ballad of Woodsy Owl; Help Woodsy Spread the Word...

Description: Musical score depicting the Ballad of Woodsy Owl, a song warning against pollution, with illustrations of the Woodsy Owl character and his signature phrase 'Give a Hoot! Don't Pollute!'.
Date: 1976
Creator: Bartoo, Marion
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Sheet Music with notes]

Description: Photocopy of a few pages of sheet music for "I'm Goin' Up a Yonder," by Walter Hawkins for Lory Masters. The sheet music contains a yellow sticky note which reads 'Judy Baker wrote the song (Don Baker, one of our Dallas Heroes who was the 2016, was Judy's brother)'.
Date: 1994
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

["I'd Have To Be Crazy" sheet music]

Description: Song lyrics and music, "I'd Have To Be Crazy" written by Steve Fromholz and recorded by Willie Nelson. The song was published on Lone Star Records by Prophecy Publishing, Inc.; 1976.
Date: 1976
Creator: Fromholz, Steve
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Original "I'd Have To Be Crazy" sheet music]

Description: Original song lyrics and music, "I'd Have To Be Crazy" written by Steve Fromholz. The original music sheets with score by Fromholz includes eight (8) Sseets with handwriting in pencil. Contains bass, piano guitar, alto sax, trombone, triplet, and concert scores, triplet and concert score arranged by R. D. Skiles, c. early 1970s/1976.
Date: [1970..1976]
Creator: Fromholz, Steve
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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