Joe: Just added my two bits to what was already posted in the linked song threads. RE: Foster, I did that part from memory though. Oops. It used to be "Uncredited" but I see the online consensus is moving away from that. My copy is the same as in the Levy Collection which is still credited to Foster... for now. It's a tandem sheet with Old Unkle Ned on the "B-Side" as it were. Both were part of A.F. Winnemore's Jim Crow Jubilee that was supposed to have a proto-Oh Susanna in it as well. Augustus Clapp's credit was usually "Arranged for the Piano Forte By..." Have never been able to find much background on him.
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