Valencia Song of Spain Boyer Charles Grey Dance Instructions with Photographic Illustrations

 Valencia (A Song of Spain)
Words by Lucien Boyer and Jacques Charles.
American version lyrics by Clifford Grey.
Music by Jose Padilla.
New York: Harms, 1926. 9-1/4 x 12-1/8 inches, 31 cm.

Cover shows image of Mistinguett (Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois, 1875-1956) in elaborate floral-type vignette.

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Sheet music back gives instructions with photographic illustrations (posed by Mr. and Miss Duryea) for the Valencia: New Ballroom Dance, directions by Oscar Duryea, American Authority on Modern Dances, The Ballroom, des Artistes, One West 67th Street, New York.

Scored for Vocal (English and French lyrics), Piano and Ukelele (charts). Sung by Mistinguett in the Big Mistinguett Revue at the Moulin Rouge, Paris.

Introduced for the first time in America by Messrs. Lee and D.D. Shubert in The Great Temptations. Made in U.S.A.

Valencia is a pasodoble song composed by Jose Padilla for the 1924 Zarzuela La bien amada and included in the silent film Valencia with lyrics by Lucienne Boyer and Jacques Charles, and American version by Clifford Grey. It was one of the biggest hits of 1926, topping the charts for 11-weeks. (source: Wikipedia)