Featuring the likes of the first million-seller, George W Johnson. Johnson was was sitting in a “studio”, singing the
same two songs into a bank of gramophones up to fifty times a day, for
limited financial returns. “The Whistling Coon” is offensive all the way
down the line from awful title to much worse lyrics, but apparently
this is what the public wanted, and it made a black man the first star
recording artist in the particularly racist post-reconstruction era of
the USA. Also featuring the likes of George J. Gaskin, J.W. Myers, Russell Hunting, and many more..
George W Johnson the original whistler way before Roger Whittaker haha.
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