File:"When a Coon Sits in The Presidential Chair" - 1899.opus

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"When_a_Coon_Sits_in_The_Presidential_Chair"_-_1899.opus ‎(Ogg Opus sound file, length 2 min 24 s, 95 kbps, file size: 1.63 MB)

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English: This is outrageously racist "coon" song is a classic example of what Rag-Time sounded like before 1900. Piano accompaniment is by either Frank P. Banta or Fred Hylands. Recorded May 26, 1899 on a Berliner disc record. This was written by the popular black composer Irving Jones in 1899.
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Source YouTube: When a Coon Sits in The Presidential Chair - 1899 – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today
Author Irving Jones / Piano accompaniment is by either Frank P. Banta or Fred Hylands

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current05:09, 27 February 20242 min 24 s (1.63 MB)Illegitimate Barrister (talk | contribs)Imported media from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTz-y2zal-I

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Ogg Vorbis 76 kbps Completed 05:11, 27 February 2024 4.0 s

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