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London, D'Almaine & Co .1847. Ornate lettered cover . Sung by the Female American Serenaders. This is a fascinating aside to the development of Minstrel music in Britain.We can precisely date the sheet as June 1847 through Neighbour & Tyson's work on plate numbers and it was barely a year from when the Ethiopian Serenaders first swept through Britain and caused such a furore and yet I can find no mention of the Female American Serenaders and yet here they are with a short list of 8 song titles on the front cover.The only reference I can find is that they performed at the Birmingham Town Hall on June 9th 1847 and that their stage names were Cora,Jumba, Woski, Miami,Yarico,Womba & Rosa. There is a portrait on a leaflet in the Birmingham City Archives. They also performed at the Egyptian Hall in LOndon in c 1860. Certainly by the 1860's there were other female troupes such as Cooper's Female Christy's, but not this early.Other Songs listed include The Phantom Canoe, Flora May, Racoon Hunters, We Come from Ohio and the Indian Gleaners. The lyricist R. Nicholson remains obscure but the composer George A Hodson( c1798-1863) has 5 songs listed in Kilgarriff mainly in the 1830's but at least 1 in the 1850's, he also performed songs including his own . This song is not listed Folio size with music..Condition VG.

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