Item #2570 When the Prohibition Ship Comes In... A Temperance Song. Words, Music.

When the Prohibition Ship Comes In... A Temperance Song

Port Moody, BC: Self-Published? 1916. Sheet Music. (cover title) Published the same year that Prohibition came into law in British Columbia, this song was also copyrighted in the US in 1917. Musical score, 8vo (9-1/8 inches tall), pp. 4, printed on cream colored paper (12-1/2" tall x 9-1/8 " wide) folded vertically in half to form four printed pages. Score with light soil, wear and fold marks, two faint rubber stamps to front cover, an institutional and their deaccession rubber stamps to bottom corner of p. 4. Good. Item #2570

"Many of the songs related to Prohibition are no longer sung. Some of the popular songs were recorded commercially, and preserved in that way. Others survive because folk song collectors - - - were out documenting songs with early disc recording equipment not long after the repeal of Prohibition, when people still remembered and sang them." LoC accessed 04/17. Others songs such as this one (not found in any online database or music reference) may only exist today as a single copy.

Price: $125.00 CAD  other currencies