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Sheet Music for 'On A Slow Boat To China' lyrics by Frank Loesser, Published by Melrose Music Corporation, 1619 Broadway, New York 19, New York.; Dimensions: 9" width by 12" height; weight 17.6 grams. Copyright Notice dated 1948, but no Registration or Renewal on File. First Audio track recorded by Kay Keyser and His Orchestra, vocals by Harry Babbitt and Gloria Wood, 06 November 1947. Second Audio track by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra recorded in 1947, third Audio track recorded by Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby, fourth audio track recorded by Eddy Howard in 1956. Public Domain under Rule 6 of the U.S. Copyright Statutes. Digitized by Gerard Arthus and released into the Public Domain under the Creative Commons License. A FLAC file is included and no audio correction was done so as to gather as much of the information as possible in the recording. Audacity was used to create the recording; the settings were at highest quality and an Audacity Project file is included in a 7zip archive.
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