Old black Joe: song & chorus

Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864

University of Pittsburgh (depositor)

31735061832774

written & composed by Stephen C. Foster.
For voice and piano, with chorus refrain.
At head of title: Ten thousand copies sold.
Reprint. Originally published: [New York] : Firth, Pond & Co., 1860.
Wm. A. Pond & Co. was at this address from 1863 until 1877. Cf. Early American sheet music / Dichter and Shapiro.
Advertisement: Bulletin of the latest and most popular sheet music, A, vocal on p. [6]
Title page illustration: lithograph of an Afro-American man and a white girl titled "Dan Bryant" / J.B.
"Armstrong & Co. Lithographers, corner of Congress & Franklin Sts., Boston."
Price mark 4 in a diamond.
First line of text: Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay.
First line of chorus: I'm coming, I'm coming.
Foster Hall Collection cutter no.: 498.215.

eng

1 score ([3], 4-5, [1] p.) : ill. ; 36 cm.

Wm. A. Pond & Co.

New York (547 Broadway, New York)

notated music

African Americans--Songs and music
Death songs
Popular music--United States--To 1901

United States

University of Pittsburgh

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