Mack Cecil Chris Smith (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Mack started writing song lyrics, starting with "Good Morning, Carrie" in 1901. He co-founded the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company in May 1905, in New York City; it was likely the first black owned music publishing company and this was one of its earliest productions. In 1907 he wrote the lyrics for the musical The Black Politician and in 1925 he co-wrote the book for the musical Mooching Along. In 1931 he co-wrote the music for the musical Rhapsody in Black. Mack died in New York, aged 70. His obituary observed that "Not even Irving Berlin exceeded the output of this talented New York Negro. According to Wikipedia: Cecil Mack's songs were pure fun and never had an off-color line." He was married to Dr. Gertrude Curtis, a pioneering African-American dentist who had an office in Harlem. Oversized, 4pps, 1st edn, VG, featured in Marrying Mary.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. A very nice copy! A lightly handled copy -- clean and bright -- with the usual light rubbing along the edges. ("As sung by Clara Morton of 'The Four Mortons.'") Song about the sugar cane fields "down in Louisiana." Ships from NC. All music is sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely with recycled cardboard backing, and shipped promptly with tracking.

Softcover. Condition: Good. This sheet music has much edge, corner and surface wear including tears, chips, scuffs and minor creasing (mainly at corners). However, there is no major area of damage. It is in the G range. The lyrics were written by Cecil Mack (born R. C. McPherson) was a prolific African-American songwriter. He was mainly a lyricist who also founded the first African-American music publishing company in New York, Gotham Music, which later merged with Attucks Music. (This sheet music was published by Gotham-Attucks.) Mack was responsible for publishing many of the songs made famous by Bert Williams and George Walker. Chris Smith was mainly a composer, who frequently worked with Mack. His most famous work was "Ballin' the Jack," though he wrote many popular tunes near the turn of the 20th century. This sheet music thus features two African-American songwriters with an African-American publishing company. The photograph on the cover, though, is of the white "coon" singer, Clarice Vance. SMAA ; Sheet Music; Tinted Drawing.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1906 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 8 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 8 Smith, Chris, 1879-1949. cmp,Hein, Silvio, 1879-1928. cmp,Mack, Cecil, 1883-1944. lyr.