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A Hot Time in the Old Town. As Sung by Josephine Sabel

A Hot Time in the Old Town. As Sung by Josephine Sabel

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A Hot Time in the Old Town. As Sung by Josephine Sabel

by [VAUDEVILLE] HAYDEN, Joe (lyrics) and Theo A. Metz (music)

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New York: Willis Woodward & Co, 1896. Sheet music. 4to; pictorial coated thick-paper wrappers; 6pp (including covers). Mild creasing and external soil; partial split at folded margin; Very Good. Owner's name in ink at upper front cover ("Lora Mae Powell").

Racist dialect song, and an early hit for the French-born American vaudeville star Josephine Sabel, popular in this period for her humorous renditions of so-called "coon songs" such as this one. Sabel's vignette portrait is inset on the front cover, surrounded by plantation scenes.

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Bookseller
Lorne Bair Rare Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
52726
Title
A Hot Time in the Old Town. As Sung by Josephine Sabel
Author
[VAUDEVILLE] HAYDEN, Joe (lyrics) and Theo A. Metz (music)
Book Condition
Used
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Publisher
Willis Woodward & Co
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1896
Bookseller catalogs
Social History; African-Americana;

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