Chords for 'The Laughing Coon" Sung By George W. Johnson Edison Phonograph Cylinder On Columbia BKT Graphophone

_ Hi everybody.
_ Well, I decided to get up this morning and dust off the old Columbia BKT,
_ _ Columbia BKT Graphophone of course.
_ _ _ _ And I've been searching for the past couple of hours
since I've gotten up _ for _ things, selections that is, on disc and cylinder of interest
to you folks, _ going through my collection, _ archives if you will.
And I came up with _ this
tune.
_ It's in actually spectacular condition.
It's George W.
Johnson's The Laughing Coon. _ _
Many of you probably know George W.
Johnson was the _ very first black recording artist,
_ _ at least arguably the very first black recording artist.
_ There are a number of black recording
artists that go back quite a ways. _ _
Not the least of course was Burt _ _ _ Williams.
_ _ _ And he
goes back quite a ways.
George Walker of course, his early partner, _ _ go back quite a
ways.
But George W.
Johnson goes back to the late 1800s as far as his recording.
And he
had a very catching laugh. _
And I'm sure that was recognized by people that knew him.
And
they probably said, hey George, why don't you _ _ make a recording?
You _ sing good and you
laugh is contagious.
_ So here we are _ over 100 years later with George W.
Johnson's cylinder
records and disc records.
He made a few disc records as well.
He didn't make very many
recordings.
The Laughing Song of course, which this one is not, I have that one, a couple
copies of that one as well. _ _ _
But that's his most popular.
That's his signature recording
in my opinion.
But this is The Laughing Coon.
It has his signature laugh.
It's almost a
gravely laugh.
You know like a, _ _ it's hard to explain but it's _ a deep, _ _ what I call a
gravely laugh.
_ Probably from making so many recordings, _ his laugh just got what I call
gravely.
You know, it just kind of _ _ sounds kind of loose if you will.
_ But it's very,
very contagious.
And if you don't smile after you hear one of George W.
Johnson's laughing
songs, _ _ including this one, _ it's unusual.
Because it's, he's a lot of fun to listen to.
This
particular cylinder, as I mentioned in the beginning, is in outstanding condition.
It's
funny, I have probably three or four copies of The Laughing Coon and three or four copies
of The Laughing Song by George W.
Johnson on cylinder. _ _ _
And a lot of times they're whipped.
The people that bought them just played the heck out of them.
And of course, his laugh
is loud and the loud passages in any cylinder are going to get worn quicker than _ quiet passages
like violin solos and like that.
But _ this particular one is in fantastic condition.
And what I guess, what I'm assuming, is that somebody bought this back in, when it was
new, say 1902, _ and took it home, tried it out and said, eh, I don't like this.
And they
put it away carefully in a box and didn't play it again because it's in spectacular
shape.
Anyway, thanks for your patience with my sometimes lengthy introductions. _
But I
hope you enjoy this, The Laughing Coon by George W.
Johnson.
Thanks for stopping in. _ _ _
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