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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 ".
George W. Johnson: c. 1896: 2013 [48] ... Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson: ... Ragtime piano rolls and Treemonisha;
The first hit recorded song by a Black man was "The Whistling Coon" by George W. Johnson recorded in 1890. After the turn of the century, coon songs began to receive criticism for their racist content. [15]
George Washington Johnson died in 1917. The house where the two lovers met still stands on the escarpment above Hamilton, and a plaque bearing the name of the song had been erected in front of the old building but is now inside the Township of Glanbrook building on Binbrook Road (Road 52) just east of Fletcher Road (Road 614).
Musicians who are notable for their playing of ragtime ... James P. Johnson (1894 ... Sue Keller (1952–) Joseph Lamb (1887–1960) George Lewis (1900–1968 ...
Felix Arndt (1889–1918),"Desecration Rag" (1914), "Nola" (1916), [1] "Operatic Nightmare" (1916); May Aufderheide (1888–1972), "Dusty Rag" (1908) [2]; Roy Bargy ...
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. September 3 – Carl Nielsen makes the first entry in his diary.
The earliest surviving wax cylinder recording of the Unique Quartette — and thus the earliest surviving recording by any African-American musical group (as opposed to soloist, since George W. Johnson's “The Whistling Coon” predates this by two years) — is Edison 694, "Mamma’s Black Baby Boy", recorded in 1893.