1896 · New York
by [VAUDEVILLE] HAYDEN, Joe (lyrics) and Theo A. Metz (music)
New York: Willis Woodward & Co, 1896. Sheet music. 4to; pictorial coated thick-paper wrappers; 6pp (including covers). Mild creasing and external soil; partial split at folded margin; Very Good. Owner's name in ink at upper front cover ("Lora Mae Powell").
Racist dialect song, and an early hit for the French-born American vaudeville star Josephine Sabel, popular in this period for her humorous renditions of so-called "coon songs" such as this one. Sabel's vignette portrait is inset on the front cover, surrounded by plantation scenes. (Inventory #: 52726)
Racist dialect song, and an early hit for the French-born American vaudeville star Josephine Sabel, popular in this period for her humorous renditions of so-called "coon songs" such as this one. Sabel's vignette portrait is inset on the front cover, surrounded by plantation scenes. (Inventory #: 52726)