Lot 52: 12 Pcs Black Americana 1912 - 1947 Sheet Music Aunt Jemima Sterotypes For Sale

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12 PIECES: BLACK AMERICANA SHEET MUSIC 1909 – 1947

Pieces are in varyingcondition so see descriptions.

1- SOMEBODY’S DONE ME WRONG 1918 – by Marshall Walker, Will E. Skidmore. Published by Skidmore in Kansas City, Missouri. Cover photo BILLY BEARD. “The best coon shout ever written”. This one shows an African-American preacher who discovers someone in his congregation has been fooling with his wife and he threatens them on the cover with a razor and a gun. Stained glass window of the church shows a pair of dice and a chicken. GOOD CONDITION

2- JI-JI-BOO 1922 – Harry White, Willy White, Joseph Meyer. Published by Fred Fisher. Song about a black female on Fiji who wears very little, as a shipwrecked sailor discovers. GOOD CONDITION

3- WHEN OLD BILL BAILEY PLAYS THE UKALELE 1915 – Charles McCarron, Nat Vincent. Bald and bearded old African-American male plays the ukulele although it resembles a small guitar as pretty girls look on from the woods. Cover art by ANDRE DE TAKACS. GOOD CONDITION

4- WHEN YOU SANG HUSH-A-BYE BABY TO ME 1918 – Frederic Knight Logan, Abe Olman, Jesse G. M. Glick. Published by Forster in Chicago. Cover art by STARMER. GOOD CONDITION

5-CAROLINA MAMMY1923 - Billy James. Cover photo of AUNT JEMIMA, one of several who played this role in blackface. Has separated spine. Aunt Jemima was originally howevera brand of pancake mix, syrup, and other breakfast foods currently owned by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago. The trademark dates to 1893, although Aunt Jemima pancake mix debuted in 1889. The Quaker Oats Company first registered the Aunt Jemima trademark in April 1937. Aunt Jemima originally came from a minstrel show as one of their pantheon of stereotypical African American characters. Aunt Jemima appears to have been a postbellum addition to that cast. On our sheet music she is TESS GARDELLA, Italian American performer, in blackface.

6- WHEN IT’S NIGHT TIME DOWN IN DIXIELAND 1914 – Irving Berlin. FAIR CONDITION with edge wear and separated spine. Great cover, however, of banjo and fiddle playing “darkies”, log cabin and kinky hair. Inset photo of the Tip Top Four.

7- CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY 1920 – James A. Bland. Originally a traditional song, adapted by Bland in the 1840s and popular since the Civil War, it was revived by Alma Gluck, the famous Romanian-American soprano, as a signature song and this is that version of the tune, published in Boston, and featuring ramshackled home, banjo-playing black, mammy and kids.

8- CIVILIZATION BONGO BONGO BONGO 1947 – Bob Hilliard, Carl Sigman. African tribesman with huge lips and spear graces the cover by palm tree and grass shack.

9- THE PERFECT SONG, MUSICAL THEME OF THE PEPSODENT HOUR 1929 – Clarence Lucas, Joseph Carl Breil. Cover FREEMAN GOSDEN, CHARLES CORRELL, better known as AMOS ‘N’ ANDY or AMOS AND ANDY. Has an area of surface loss in the field at the center where there was a price tag and is otherwise okay.

10- THREE LITTLE WORDS 1930 – Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby. The second sheet music in the Amos and Andy Series, this one from the Radio Picture AMOS ‘N’ ANDY entitled CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK.

11- BLUE BOOGIE 1944 – John W. Schaum. Kiddie piano solo with smiling stereotypical black faces.

12- KENTUCKY BABE PLANTATION LULLABY 1909 – Richard Henry Buck, Adam Geibel.

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