Title: 4 sheet music items: Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home, and 3 copycats Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1902 Description: Hughie Cannon, “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?” (c.1902) First or early printing, 4pp. Fogerty, Woodward and Jerome, “I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don’t Come Home” (c.1902) 4pp. (Billy) Johnson and Furth, “Since Bill Bailey Came Back Home” (c.1902), 4pp. McCarron and Vincent, “When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukalele” (c.1915) 3pp. All in the pre-War 11 x 14” format, the first three published by Howley, Haviland & Dresser, NY, the last, much later, by Broadway Music. Cannon, the original composer of the classic ragtime “coon song” (as well as the sequel that became “Frankie and Johnny”) was white - though he used “Negro dialect” lyrics and both the original sheet music and the three spin-offs in this group all have front cover stereotypic drawings of Black men and women. Only one of the spin-offs had a Black co-composer (Billy Johnson and only one performer pictured on a different printing of the original (Harry Browne) was Black. But the song was later immortalized by Black jazz musicians Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 247860
Title: 4 sheet music items: Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home, and 3 copycats Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1902 Description: Hughie Cannon, “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home?” (c.1902) First or early printing, 4pp. Fogerty, Woodward and Jerome, “I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don’t Come Home” (c.1902) 4pp. (Billy) Johnson and Furth, “Since Bill Bailey Came Back Home” (c.1902), 4pp. McCarron and Vincent, “When Old Bill Bailey Plays the Ukalele” (c.1915) 3pp. All in the pre-War 11 x 14” format, the first three published by Howley, Haviland & Dresser, NY, the last, much later, by Broadway Music. Cannon, the original composer of the classic ragtime “coon song” (as well as the sequel that became “Frankie and Johnny”) was white - though he used “Negro dialect” lyrics and both the original sheet music and the three spin-offs in this group all have front cover stereotypic drawings of Black men and women. Only one of the spin-offs had a Black co-composer (Billy Johnson and only one performer pictured on a different printing of the original (Harry Browne) was Black. But the song was later immortalized by Black jazz musicians Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 247860
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