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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 ".
English: A photo portrait of recording pioneer George W. Johnson, from The Phonoscope, July 1898. Date: 1 July 1898: Source: The Phonoscope Vol. 2, No. 7 (July 1898)
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 (singer) (1846–1914), American singer, early recording artist George Perry Johnson (1885–1977), American film producer, writer, and newsreel producer George Johnson (actor) (1898–1961), American actor
George W. Johnson (December 22, 1894 – June 20, 1974) was a Minnesota politician, the 28th Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, and a former member and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. [ 1 ]
George Washington Johnson (May 27, 1811 – April 8, 1862) was the first Confederate governor of Kentucky.A lawyer-turned-farmer from Scott County, Kentucky, Johnson, a supporter of slavery who owned 26 slaves, favored secession as a means of preventing the Civil War, believing the Union and Confederacy would be forces of equal strength, each too wary to attack the other. [1]
"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.
Grave of poet, George Washington Johnson, and his third wife, Caroline Fox, in the Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. George Washington Johnson (1839, Binbrook, Upper Canada – 1917, Pasadena, California) was a Canadian schoolteacher and poet best known for writing the song “When You and I Were Young, Maggie,” dedicated to his first wife Maggie Clark.