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Thread #27246 Message #1122089
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
23-Feb-04 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Old Dan Tucker
Subject: RE: Old Dan Tucker
The "Ethiopian Serenaders" shared the same name with other troupes. Ethiopian Serenaders ("The Only Correct and Authorized Edition") Sheet music cover shows five men, 1 with clackers, 2 with banjos,1 with squeezebox and 1 with tambourine. Printings with this picture: 1845 Philadelphia Gals 1847 My Old Aunt Sally (17 titles listed on cover, can't read) 1847 Old Dan Tucker 1847 Chloe Is My Wife 1848 Buffalo Gals 1848 Lucy Neal 1848 De Boatmen's Dance 1848 Uncle Gabriel 1848 Negro Fishermen 1848 The Old Gum Tree 1848 De Color'd Fancy Ball 1848 My Skiff Is By the Shore 1847 I Wish I Was in Ole Varginny
Nightingale Ethiopian Serenaders 1848, The Yaller Gal with the Josey On
Campbells Ethiopian Serenaders 1848, I See Her At the Window.
Dumbolton's Ethiopian Serenaders 1849, The Female Slave's Lament
Billy Weeks, which of these troupes appeared in London? Or was it another one?