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Instructions for the
“Music Description Project”
are now posted
on the course web site
Chapter Ten
“Come On and Hear” :
Popular Music, Theater, and Dance at
the Turn of the Century
George M. Cohan (1878-1942)
Vaudeville Family
Writer, composer,
producer, star - 50
shows (1904-20)
Over 300 songs
“The Four Cohans”
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ASCAP
PBS Broadway George M Cohan
"I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy"
"Give My Regards to Broadway“
"Over There" - studio recording by George M.
Cohan
Little Johnny Jones (1904)
Al Jolson (1886-1950)
“Swanee” from Sinbad (1920)
In Blackface
Al Jolson (2)
• Yiddish (Lithuanian) immigrant (at age 8)
- “Asa Yoelson”
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Burlesque, Circus, Vaudeville performer
Lew Dockstader’s Minstrels (1909)
Broadway – leading star in 1920s
Talkies – The Jazz Singer (1927)
- "Blue Skies“ (Irving Berlin)
- "Toot, Toot, Tootsie!“ (Gus Kahn)
• The Singing Fool (1928)
- “I'm Sitting On Top Of The World”
• Pre-Amplification Voice (Belter)