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Scope and Contents note Standard printed contract: Contract dated October 24, 1939, between Santly-Joy-Select, Inc. and Johnny Mercer and "Collaborator Royal Marsh," for song "Holy Smoke (Can't Ya Take a Joke?)." The printed form used is the "Standard Uniform Popular Songwriters Contract." The form has the payment schedule filled in, "Paragraph 7" crossed through (Company agrees "to publish in saleable form said musical composition within ___ from the date hereof."), and "Paragraph 14" added in typescript ("It is...