File:Coon Coon Coon sheet music cover 1901.jpg

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Sheet music cover "Coon Coon Coon" from 1901; with insert photo of Minstrel performer Lew Docksteader in blackface.

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Coon coon coon / words by Gene Jefferson ; music by Leo Friedman.

Friedman, Leo, 1869-1927. Other Titles

First line of text: Although it's not my color. First line of chorus: Coon! Coon! Coon! Notes

For voice and piano. Cover title. At head of title: "The most successful song hit of 1901." "Introduced and sung by Lew Dockstader"--Cover. Cover illustration: drawing of the faces of three Black men, with the word "coon" incorporated into their features / Edgar Keller; photograph of Lew Dockstader. Alternate lines to second verse: p. 5. Advertisements for "The honeysuckle and the bee" and other songs: cop. 2, p. [2], [7-8] Cover photograph: Zoa Matthews, cop. 3; Annie Kenwick, cop. 4. Library's cop. 2 inscribed: E.A. Young. Originally published: Chicago : Sol Bloom, c1900. Subjects

Dockstader, Lew,--1856-1924. Matthews, Zoa. Kenwick, Annie. Afro-Americans--Race identity--Songs and music. Popular music--United States. Related Names

Jefferson, Gene. Performer: Dockstader, Lew, 1856-1924. Performer: Matthews, Zoa. Performer: Kenwick, Annie. Illustrator: Keller, Edgar, Sol Bloom (Music publisher) Part of

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