mack cecil chris smith (5 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Mack started writing song lyrics, starting with "Good Morning, Carrie" in 1901. He co-founded the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company in May 1905, in New York City; it was likely the first black owned music publishing company and this was one of its earliest productions. In 1907 he wrote the lyrics for the musical The Black Politician and in 1925 he co-wrote the book for the musical Mooching Along. In 1931 he co-wrote the music for the musical Rhapsody in Black. Mack died in New York, aged 70. His obituary observed that "Not even Irving Berlin exceeded the output of this talented New York Negro. According to Wikipedia: Cecil Mack's songs were pure fun and never had an off-color line." He was married to Dr. Gertrude Curtis, a pioneering African-American dentist who had an office in Harlem. Oversized, 4pps, 1st edn, VG, featured in Marrying Mary.

No Binding. Condizione: Near Fine. A very nice copy! A lightly handled copy -- clean and bright -- with the usual light rubbing along the edges. ("As sung by Clara Morton of 'The Four Mortons.'") Song about the sugar cane fields "down in Louisiana." Ships from NC. All music is sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely with recycled cardboard backing, and shipped promptly with tracking.

Softcover. Condizione: Good. This sheet music has much edge, corner and surface wear including tears, chips, scuffs and minor creasing (mainly at corners). However, there is no major area of damage. It is in the G range. The lyrics were written by Cecil Mack (born R. C. McPherson) was a prolific African-American songwriter. He was mainly a lyricist who also founded the first African-American music publishing company in New York, Gotham Music, which later merged with Attucks Music. (This sheet music was published by Gotham-Attucks.) Mack was responsible for publishing many of the songs made famous by Bert Williams and George Walker. Chris Smith was mainly a composer, who frequently worked with Mack. His most famous work was "Ballin' the Jack," though he wrote many popular tunes near the turn of the 20th century. This sheet music thus features two African-American songwriters with an African-American publishing company. The photograph on the cover, though, is of the white "coon" singer, Clarice Vance. SMAA ; Sheet Music; Tinted Drawing.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1906 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 8 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 8 Smith, Chris, 1879-1949. cmp,Hein, Silvio, 1879-1928. cmp,Mack, Cecil, 1883-1944. lyr.

The scarce sheet music for the collaboratively composed "The Camel Walk," which enjoyed a short-lived spell of popularity in 1925 as a dance successor to the Charleston. Tim Brymn (18811946) was a prominent African American bandleader, pianist, and composer active in New York during the 1910s and 1920s. Born in Kingston, North Carolina, he studied at the National Conservatory of Music and led orchestras at major venues including the Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic and Reisenweber's Paradise Ballroom. He later organized the Black Devil Orchestra, which toured Europe in the early 1920s and recorded for Vocalion. Co-composer Chris Smith (18791949), born in Charleston, South Carolina, was an important early ragtime songwriter best known for the 1913 hit "Ballin' the Jack," written with Jim Burris and popularized through the dance repertoire of Vernon and Irene Castle. Lyricist Cecil Mack (18731944), born Richard Cecil McPherson in Baltimore, was a key figure in Black musical theater and a founder of the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company in 1921, one of the first major Black-owned music publishers. Bob Schafer was active in New York popular music circles during the 1920s as a songwriter and arranger contributing to dance numbers and novelty songs issued by Tin Pan Alley publishers. According to the Oxford Companion to Popular Music,[1] the piece had a "temporary vogue," and along with other dances such as the "Black Bottom," it overtook the Charleston in popularity. [1] Peter Gammond, Oxford Companion to Popular Music (Oxford University Press, 1991). Covers nearly detached, music shop stamp to front cover, good to very good overall with excellent contents. Small folio, 12 x 9 inches, 5 pp.