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George Washington Johnson (c. October 1846 – January 23, 1914) was an American singer and pioneer sound recording artist. Johnson was the first African American recording star of the phonograph . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His most popular songs were "The Whistling Coon" and " The Laughing Song ".
Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of Black people.They were popular in the United States and Australia from around 1880 [1] to 1920, [2] though the earliest such songs date from minstrel shows as far back as 1848, when they were not yet identified with the "coon" epithet. [3]
Some claim that the song was first sung by Frank Dumont "as the Duprez & Benedict's Minstrels programs, dated, will show" in 1870. [6] The song was first recorded by Corinne Morgan and Frank C. Stanley in 1905, and has been recorded since by many famous artists including opera tenors John McCormack in 1920 and Jan Peerce, early country singers Fiddlin' John Carson and Riley Puckett, country ...
George Washington Johnson may refer to: George W. Johnson (singer), singer and early recording artist; George W. Johnson (governor), Kentucky politician and US Civil War figure; George Washington Johnson (poet) (1839–1917), Canadian schoolteacher and poet
George W. Johnson (governor) (1811–1862), Confederate governor of Kentucky George Y. Johnson (1820–1872), New York politician George Alonzo Johnson (1824–1903), 49er, Colorado River steamboat entrepreneur and California politician
Musicians who are notable for their playing of ragtime music include ... Chas. Johnson (1876–1950 ... Joseph Lamb (1887–1960) George Lewis (1900–1968) Johnny Maddox
Felix Arndt (1889–1918),"Desecration Rag" (1914), "Nola" (1916), [1] "Operatic Nightmare" (1916); May Aufderheide (1888–1972), "Dusty Rag" (1908) [2]; Roy Bargy ...
"The Laughing Policeman" is a music hall song recorded by British artist Charles Penrose, initially published under the pseudonym Charles Jolly in 1922.It is an adaptation of "The Laughing Song" first recorded in 1890 by American singer George W. Johnson with the same tune and form, but the subject was changed from a "dandy darky" to a policeman.