Old Black Joe
written by stephen foster
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OLD BLACK JOE
OLD BLACK JOE (SONG CAR-TUNES) 1926
OLD BLACK JOE (SONG CAR-TUNES) 1926
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Old Black Joe is a popular song by written by Stephen Foster in the mid-1800's, inspired by a slave at the home of his father-in-law. The song was first published in 1853, and the song has been recorded numerous times - sometimes as Poor Old Joe. In 1926, the song was used for an installment of Max Fleischer's Song Car-Toons series, made with the DeForest sound-on-film process. The short film was remade in 1929 as an installment of Fleischer's Screen Songs series - that film is presumed to lost. Old Black Joe also was featured that year in the musical comedy The Hollywood Revue Of 1929. The song is also briefly sung by Billy Murray as Bimbo in the 1931 Talkartoon short Minding The Baby, and it appears in the 1933 Screen Songs short Song Shopping.
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1900
THE HAYDEN QUARTET |
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1904
THE EDISON QUARTET |
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1904
WALTER B. RODGERS |
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1910
THE PEERLESS QUARTETTE |
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1910
ALMA GLUCK |
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1927
LAWRENCE TIBBETT |
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19??
SIAM STREET DANCE |
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19??
PAUL ROBESON (POOR OLD JOE) |
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19??
NAT SHILKRET AND THE VICTOR SALON GROUP |
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1937
RICHARD CROOKS |
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19??
GLENN MILLER AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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1940
MILLS BROTHERS |
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1941
BING CROSBY |
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19??
GENE KRUPA AND HIS ORCHESTRA |
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19??
ROY RODGERS AND THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS |
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1952
C. E. JACKSON JR. |
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19??
NELSON EDDY |
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1958
from the film TRAPP FAMILY |
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1958
ROBERT SHAW CHORALE |
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1959
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19??
KENNETH SPENCER |
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19??
STAN KENTON |
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1959
JERRY ADAMS |
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1960
JERRY LEE LEWIS |
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1978
MATCHBOX |
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1979
CRAZY CAVAN |
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19??
RESTLESS |
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1985
JERRY LEE LEWIS & JAMES BURTON |
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1989
FRANTIC FLINTSTONES |
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1996
KEN COLYER'S JAZZMEN |
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2000
VAN MORRISON |
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OLD BLACK JOE
1.
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe".
2.
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain?
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms now departed long ago.
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
3.
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee,
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
1.
Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low:
I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe".
2.
Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain?
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms now departed long ago.
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
3.
Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
The children so dear that I held upon my knee,
Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
Chorus
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