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Friendly Alert 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” • • • • 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” • • • • 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)