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Re: Who was number one.....
Sep 26, 2009, 20:14
bubblehead2 wrote:
Oi cheeky ! I'm not quite Methuselah yet.

I was gonna hazard a guess that the Minstrel shows died a death on British TV in the 60's, but no, check this out...

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/535195/index.html

Almost unbelievably in this day and age, the show had an audience of up to 18 million or a third of the population of the country.



Y'know - I've seen clips from that show and they're so ideologically unacceptable it's almost surreal. But to put it in context...

A few weeks ago at work I stumbled accidentally upon a book of sheet music - dating from 1910 - called "Francis & Day's Book of Coon Carols".

The lead song ? "I'm Just A Coon".

and I quote the first verse in full...

"My gal she took a notion against the coloured race
She said were she to marry me, I'd have to change my face
She said that if she wed me, that she'd regret it soon
How I wish I were a white man, instead of just a coon".

Dear God.

I think it's important to keep records of that kind of stuff though, so people can learn from past mistakes.
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