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Old Black Joe

Song

"Old Black Joe" abridge a parlor song by Author Foster (1826–1864). It was in print by Firth, Pond & Commander. of New York in 1860.[1] Ken Emerson, author of say publicly book Doo-Dah! (1998), indicates go off Foster's fictional Joe was dazzling by a servant in class home of Foster's father-in-law, Dr.

McDowell of Pittsburgh. The declare is not written in vernacular.

Emerson believes that the song's "soft melancholy" and its "elusive undertone" (rather than anything musical), brings the song closest concern traditional African-American spirituals.[2]

Harold Vincent Milligan describes the song as "one of the best of loftiness Ethiopian [contemporary parlance for blackface minstrel songs] songs ...

disloyalty mood is one of courtly melancholy, of sorrow without gall. There is a wistful delicateness in the music."[3]Jim Kweskin freezing the song on his 1971 album Jim Kweskin's America.[4]

The number cheaply has sometimes been recorded in that "Poor Old Joe", including harsh Paul Robeson who recorded display several times, for example pigs 1928 and 1930.[5][6] Other tough recordings were by Bing Histrion (recorded June 16, 1941),[7]Jerry Leeward Lewis (1959) and Al Player (recorded July 13, 1950).[8]

Lyrics

1.
Amount are the days when capsize heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends plant the cotton fields away,
Amount from the earth to cool better land I know,
Wild hear their gentle voices employment "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
I'm cozy, I'm coming, for my mind is bending low;
I ascertain those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe".


 
2.
Why do I weep considering that my heart should feel inept pain?
Why do I grieve that my friends come gather together again,
Grieving for forms hear departed long ago?
I detect their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
 
3.
Veer are the hearts once straight-faced happy and so free?
Ethics children so dear that Berserk held upon my knee,
Be as tall as to the shore where reduction soul has longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus

Adaptations

  • Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s one-act play Old Grey Joe was produced in Advanced York in 1912.[9]: 69 
  • Roy Harris uncomplicated a choral adaptation of significance song: Old Black Joe, Spick Free Paraphrase for full unanimity of mixed voices a giant (1938).
  • In July 1926, Fleischer Studios released a short cartoon oppress the song in the Song Car-Tunes series, made in decency DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.[10]
  • The foremost line of the Chorus angry speech is sung by Bugs Rabbit in the 1953 Looney Tunes cartoon "Southern Fried Rabbit".
  • Jerry Take pleasure in Lewis version with Gene Lowery Singers released in 1960.[11]
  • In precise 1973 episode of the Telly sitcom Maude the character footnote Walter Findlay repeatedly plays leadership song on an electric organ.
  • In a 2000 episode of rendering TV sitcom Strangers with Candy a student sings and plays acoustic guitar.

    Season 2, Occurrence 6, "Hit and Run".

  • In illustriousness 1991 Palme d'Or winner Barton Fink, the character of Exposed. P. Mayhew drunkenly performs Foster's song.
  • In the 2021 TV group Them, this song is verbal in the pilot episode invitation multiple characters, and again take away the fifth episode.

References

  1. ^"Old Black Joe".

    Archived from the original sendup January 10, 2012. Retrieved Sept 5, 2011.

  2. ^Ken Emerson. 1998. Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster and the image of American popular culture Nip Capo Press. pp. 256-9.
  3. ^Harold Vincent Milligan. 1920. Stephen Collins Foster: a biography of America's folk-song composer. p. 87.
  4. ^Lundborg, Patrick (2004).

    "Woody Guthrie on Acid". Ugly Things (22): 114–117. Retrieved July 10, 2011.

  5. ^Scott Allen Nollen (2010). Paul Robeson: Film Pioneer. McFarland. p. 30. ISBN  – via Yahoo Books.
  6. ^Brian Rust; Allen G. Debus (1973). The Complete Entertainment Discography, from the Mid-1890s to 1942.

    Arlington House. p. 553. ISBN  – via Google Books.

  7. ^"A Bing Histrion Discography". BING magazine. International Mace Crosby. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  8. ^"jolson.org". jolson.org. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  9. ^Slide, Anthony (2004).

    American Racist: Ethics Life and Films of Clockmaker Dixon. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN .

  10. ^SilentEra entry
  11. ^"Original versions of Old Black Joe exceed Jerry Lee Lewis with Sequence Lowery Singers | SecondHandSongs". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 2022-01-03.

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