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Thread #89203   Message #1682312
Posted By: masato sakurai
01-Mar-06 - 11:23 AM
Thread Name: happy? – Feb 28 (Doo-da, doo-da!)
Subject: RE: happy? – Feb 28 (Doo-da, doo-da!)
This is the earliest known copy of "Camptown Races" (from the Levy collection), published February 19, 1850:

Title: [Foster-Hall Reproductions]. Foster's Plantation Melodies. No.3. Gwine to Run All Night [Camptown Races].
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Written, Composed & Arranged by Stephen C. Foster.
Publication: Baltimore: F.D. Benteen, 1850.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: De Camptown ladies sing dis song, Doo-dah! doo-dah!
First Line of Chorus: Gwine to run all night! Gwine to run all day!
Performer: As Sung by the Christy & Campbell Minstrels, and New Orleans Serenaders.
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: Webb