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Follow Thru. “I Want to Be Bad.” (Jazz Age golf musical sheet music, later filmed.)
SHORT DESC Jazz Age sheet music celebrating rebellious women and golf culture
Copyrighted in 1928 at the height of the Jazz Age, this first edition sheet music for Follow Thru showcases the breakout number “I Want to Be Bad,” a playful declaration of sexual agency famously performed by Zelma O’Neal.
Written by B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, with music by Ray Henderson, the song captures the era’s spirit of liberated femininity with lyrics like: “Let a lady confess, I want to be bad, if it is naughty to vamp the men, Sleep each morning till after ten…” This 1920s Broadway musical was later adapted into a 1930 film of the same name starring Charles “Buddy” Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Zelma O’Neal.
Description: Follow Thru. “I Want to Be Bad.” (Jazz Age golf musical sheet music, later filmed.)
New York: De Sylva, Brown and Henderson, Inc., [1928]. Folio (12 x 9 in.). 8 pages. Pictorial wrappers printed in green, black, and white with a golf ball motif and decorative typography. Light wear to extremities; small signature upper right. A very good copy.
[3735237]Price: $45.00