Lucy Neale, Miss Lucy Neale, and James Sanford should link here
Jim Sanford was a singer and dancer who performed in minstrel shows in Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
He performed in George Kunkel's Virginia Serenaders.[2]
He wrote and performed "Miss Lucy Neale",[3] which became popular. The song is about teo "star-crossed lovers" on an Alabama plantation.[4]
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll4/id/7551/
https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/020/050 (1844)
The Yellow Rose of Texas (song) uses "Miss Lucy Neale" melody?
References
edit- ^ Hildebrand, David K.; Schaaf, Elizabeth M. (24 July 2017). Musical Maryland: A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-2239-8.
- ^ Slout, William L. (September 2007). Burnt Cork and Tambourines: A Source Book for Negro Minstrelsy. Wildside Press LLC. ISBN 978-0-89370-458-2.
- ^ "Miss Lucy Neale, a favorite Ethiopian song". Library of Congress.
- ^ Cutrer, Thomas W. (November 2009). The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3658-4.