A Hot Time in the Old Town. As Sung by Josephine Sabel
by [VAUDEVILLE] HAYDEN, Joe (lyrics) and Theo A. Metz (music)
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
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.
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.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52726
- Title
- A Hot Time in the Old Town. As Sung by Josephine Sabel
- Author
- [VAUDEVILLE] HAYDEN, Joe (lyrics) and Theo A. Metz (music)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Willis Woodward & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social History; African-Americana;
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...