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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 ".
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 ...
Lovey's Trinidad String Band recordings for Columbia Records Lovey's Trinidad String Band: 1912 Ragtime compositions piano rolls: Scott Joplin: 1916 [8] "Tiger Rag" Original Dixieland Jazz Band: 1918 "Arkansas Traveler" and "Sallie Gooden" Eck Robertson: 1922 "Downhearted Blues" Bessie Smith: 1923 Rhapsody in Blue: George Gershwin, piano; Paul ...
For more than 20 years, the River Raisin Ragtime Revue has worked to preserve the history of America's original popular music.
January–June period – George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record phonograph cylinders, in New York. June 21 – Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of his symphonic poem Death and Transfiguration at the Eisenach Festival.
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]
Musicians who are notable for their playing of ragtime ... James P. Johnson (1894 ... Sue Keller (1952–) Joseph Lamb (1887–1960) George Lewis (1900–1968 ...
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508739-9. Jason, David A. (2007) Ragtime: an Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 0-415-97862-9. Waldo, Terry (2009) This is Ragtime. Jazz at Lincoln Center Library. ISBN 978-1-934793-01-5.