There used to be a music hall artist many years ago by the name of G.H.Elliot. His tag line was "The Chocolate Coloured Coon" - imagine anyone trying to use that these days! You can read about him at http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/articles/hippodrome/entertainers3.htm

I can remember seeing him in a show made up of old-timers back in the 1940s, or it might have been the early '50s. There were other characters such as Randolph Sutton, Nellie Wallace, Ella Shields, and Marie Lloyd Jnr. It was a touring show called Thanks For The Memory - a little bit like the touring shows of old rock'n'roll stars that go round today.