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Carmen Dragon scores, 1936-1949

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Dragon, Carmen
Title
Carmen Dragon scores
Dates
1936-1949 (inclusive)
Quantity
4.02 cubic ft. (10 boxes)
Collection Number
02929
Summary
Collection contains the scores for orchestra, jazz and popular music composed, arranged, and conducted by Carmen Dragon.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Dragon (1914-1984) was a conductor and composer for orchestra, television, motion pictures, and popular music. His son Daryl Dragon was the Captain of the musical duo The Captain & Tenille.

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Content Description

Collection contains the scores for orchestra, jazz and popular music composed, arranged, and conducted by Carmen Dragon, including scores for the radio series "The Railroad Hour" and "Drene Time."

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Use of the Collection

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Carmen Dragon as of the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

The American Heritage Center received the materials in this collection from Carmen Dragon from 1969-1971.

Processing Note

The collection was processed by Roger Simon in May 2026.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Music Scores

    • Description:
    • A

      • Description: “Adeste Fidelis” – Deanna Durbin
        Dates: 1941
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “All or Nothing at All”
        Dates: 1949
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “All Out for Freedom”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “All Through the Day”
        Dates: 1946, undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Alma Mater”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Alter Lost”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Always and Always”
        Dates: 1944, undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “America Immortal”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “American the Beautiful”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Annie Laurie”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “Aren’t We All?”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “Arkansas Finale”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Army Air Corps Song”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “At Last”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
    • B

      • Description: “Baseball – Prelude”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “A Babylon Maiden”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Beautiful Dreamer”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Beware My Heart”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “Bicycle Built for Two”
        Dates: 1936
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Billboard” & “Billboard – II”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “The Blockhouse” – Prod. D.M.
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “Blue Prelude”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Blues in the Night”
        Dates: 1949
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Bobby Breen Medley”

        Includes a lyrics sheet.

        Dates: 1939
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Bridge I” & “Bridge II”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “But Beautiful”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “By the Fountain in the Park”
        Dates: 1949, undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
    • C

      • Description: “Carolina in the Morning”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “Chantey”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Christmas Army Fanfare”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Cole Porter Medley”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Come to the Fair”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 1
      • Description: “Comme Ci Comme Ca”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Couldn’t Sleep B.G.”
        Dates: 1949
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Cowboy Heaven”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
    • D

      • Description: “Dat’s What Noah Done”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Dear Mom”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Diana Lynn Boogie”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Did I?”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Don’t Blame Me”
        Dates: 1949
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”
        Dates: 1943, undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Don’t Worry”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Drinking Song”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
    • E

      • Description: “Empty Mouth”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “End Title – Optional”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
    • F

      • Description: “Five Minutes More”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “Fool’s Paradise”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “For You, For Me, Forevermore”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: “Front Line Fanfare”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
    • G

      • Description: “A Gay Ranchero”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Gershwin Medley”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Give Me Lots of Love”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Gluskin”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “Gotta Be This or That”
        Dates: 1945, undated
        Container: Box 2
    • H

      • Description: “Haunted Heart”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “Here Comes the Show Boat”
        Dates: 1944, undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Hit the Leather”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Holiday for Strings Intro”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Home”
        Dates: 1943, undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Home on the Range”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “Hop on to Jericho”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “How Blue the Night”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Humpty Dumpty Heart” – Fable # 2
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 2
    • I

      • Description: “I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink” – Railroad
        Dates: 1949
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “I Don’t Want to Walk Without You, Baby”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “I Heard You Cried Last Nite”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “I’ll Follow My Secret Heart”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “I’ll See You Again” V4 – Railroad Show
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “It All Depends on You”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
    • J

      • Description: “Jones-Haley Medley”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Jubilee Show”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: “Jump for Joy”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
    • K

      • Description: “Kalamazoo”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Keepsakes”
        Dates: 1949, undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Kissing Her Now”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
    • L

      • Description: “La Donna Mobile” – from “Rigoletto” by Verdi
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “The Lamp on the Corner”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “La Vie en rose”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Limehouse Blues”
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Lost Beguine”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “A Love Like Ours”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Love’s Old Sweet Song” – Deanna Durbin
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Love That Hadacol”

        Includes two lyrics sheets.

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
    • M

      • Description: “Magic Song”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Mail Call” – Dominant Strain
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Main Street U.S.A. Theme”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Main Title – 1-A” – Prod. D.M.
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “The Man in the Moon is a Cowhand”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Maxwell House Theme Medley”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: Medley

        1. (1) “Avalon”;
        2. (2) “Button Up Your Overcoat”; and
        3. (3) “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”

        Dates: 1938
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: Medley No. 35

        1. (1) “Dream Walking”;
        2. (2) “I’m a Dreamer”;
        3. (3) “I Surrender”;”
        4. (4) “June in January”;
        5. (5) “Just One Chance”;
        6. (6) “Larry Shields Melody”;
        7. (7) “Lazy Bones Vocal”;
        8. (8) “Louise”;
        9. (9) “Memories of You”; and
        10. (10) “Snowball Vocal”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Met Him on Monday Intro”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Minnie Pearl”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
      • Description: “Mysterioso” – Prelude
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
    • N

      • Description: “No Orchids for My Lady” – Tony Martin – Victor Recording
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 3
    • O

      • Description: “O’Brien” – Main Title – Phil Regan – R.C.A., undated
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “Oklahoma B.G.”
        Dates: 1949, undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Opening S.A. Fanfare”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
    • P

      • Description: “Pagliacci”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “Paper Doll”/“My Ideal”/“Home”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Pass That Peace Pipe”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Pass the Ammunition” – Opt. to Intro to “White Christmas”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Patty Murphy”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
    • R

      • Description: Railroad Show – Masters

        1. (1) “Almost Like Being in Love”;
        2. (2) “Along with Me”;
        3. (3) “Beyond the Blue Horizon”;
        4. (4) “Dance With Me”;
        5. (5) “Dancing in the Dark”;
        6. (6) “Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief”;
        7. (7) “Don’t Blame Me”;
        8. (8) “Give Me Your Tired”;
        9. (9) “Goin’ Home Train”;
        10. (10) “Haunted Heart”;
        11. (11) “Heather on the Hill”;
        12. (12) “I Got Lucky in the Rain”;
        13. (13) “I’ll Remember April”;
        14. (14) “I Love You (Just One Way to Say)”;
        15. (15) “Inside U.S.A. Medley”;
        16. (16) “I’ve Come to Wive It Wealthily”;
        17. (17) “Kiss Me Kate Montage”;
        18. (18) “Kiss Me Kate Opening”;
        19. (19) “McHugh Opening”;
        20. (20) “Military Life”;
        21. (21) “Miss Liberty Opening”;
        22. (22) “My Dream Come True”;
        23. (23) “Now Is the Hour”;
        24. (24) “Oh, Promise Me”;
        25. (25) “Oh! That We Two Were Maying”;
        26. (26) “Old-Fashioned Walk”;
        27. (27) “Old Man River”;
        28. (28) “On the Boardwalk”;
        29. (29) “Opening Medley” (“Carmichael”);
        30. (30) “Over the Rainbow”;
        31. (31) “Paper Moon”;
        32. (32) “People Will Say We’re in Love”;
        33. (33) “Policeman’s Ball”;
        34. (34) “Rosary”;
        35. (35) “Showboat # 1”;
        36. (36) “Singin’ in the Rain”;
        37. (37) “So In Love”;
        38. (38) “South American Way”;
        39. (39) “South America, Take It Away”;
        40. (40) “Stardust”;
        41. (41) “Temptation”;
        42. (42) “We Open in Venice”;
        43. (43) “Wynken, Blynken, & Nod”;
        44. (44) “You Do”;
        45. (45) “You Were Meant for Me”; and
        46. (46) “Yuletide, Park Avenue”

        Dates: 1949, undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “Romance Prelude”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
    • S

      • Description: “Sailing Home Again”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Seems Like Old Times”
        Dates: 1946, undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Serenade of the Bells”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “She’s Just the Girl I Love”
        Dates: 1949, undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Sierra Madre”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “So, Good Night”
        Dates: 1944, undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Sonata”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “South American Way”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Spanish Town”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Starlit Night” – Main Title
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “The Star-Spangled Banner” – Deanna Durbin
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Steppin’ Out with My Baby” – Johnny Johnston
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “Swing Low”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Symphony” – 184-A
        Dates: 1946, undated
        Container: Box 4
    • T

      • Description: “Take Me in Your Arms”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “Taking a Chance on Love”
        Dates: 1943, undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Terra Firma”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Thank Your Lucky Stars”
        Dates: 1943, undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “That Lucky Old Sun”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
      • Description: “That’s My Desire”
        Dates: 1947, undated
        Container: Box 9
      • Description: “There Are Such Things”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
        Dates: 1948, undated
        Container: Box 9
      • Description: “There Will Never Be Another You”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Together”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
      • Description: “Tonight We Live” – Tito Guízar
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
      • Description: “A Touch of Texas”
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Träume” by Richard Wagner

        “Property of Los Angeles Federal Music Project.”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds” – Main Title
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: “Two Heavens”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
    • V

      • Description: V-1-A Vocal
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: V-1-B Vocal
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: V 2 – Railroad Show
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: V 3 – Railroad Show
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 4
      • Description: V Montage – 1-7
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: V Play-Off # 1 – Railroad Show
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: V Play-On 2 (“Happy Holiday”)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
    • W

      • Description: “Wait for Me, Mary”
        Dates: 1943-1944
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “Washington Post March”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
      • Description: “Western” – Prelude & Tag
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “What Do You Do in the Infantry?” by Frank Loesser – 163-A
        Dates: 1943, undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “What’s the Good Word, Mr. Bluebird?” – 166-A
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “When My Baby’s by My Side”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” – Railroad Show
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “When the Roses Bloom Again”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “Where Am I Without You?” undated
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “Wherever There’s Me”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: “Whirlwind” by Stan Jones
        Dates: 1949, undated
        Container: Box 9
      • Description: “Who”
        Dates: 1942undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “Why?”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
      • Description: “Why Should I Cry Over You?”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
      • Description: “Why Shouldn’t It Happen to Us?” by Mann Holiner and Alberta Nichols

        Includes a lyrics sheet.

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “Will You Remember?”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “Wish I May”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “Without You” - # 151 A-X - Don Ameche Drene Show
        Dates: 1946, undated
        Container: Box 10
      • Description: “Wonderful, Worrisome Feeling”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
    • Y

      • Description: “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “Yankee Doodle Girl”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “Yarns for Yanks”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “You Have Taken My Heart”

        Includes a list of “music to be recorded for Lucky Strike.”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “You’ll Never Know”
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “You’re the Cream in My Coffee”
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “You’re the Dream – I’m the Dreamer”
        Dates: 1944
        Container: Box 6
      • Description: “You Were Meant for Me”
        Dates: 1949
        Container: Box 6
    • Unidentified

Names and Subjects

Subject Terms

  • Composition (Music)
  • Jazz -- Scores.
  • Orchestral music -- Scores.
  • Popular music -- Scores.

Occupations

  • Composers.
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