Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner : Well-Known Library of Comic Songs

This sheet music for "Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner" is in a folder titled "Songs for Entertainments Including Amateur Minstrel Shows," with a long list of songs under that title. In the past, someone has marked "Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner" in that list. That song is inside the folder with part of it printed on the next to last folder page. Overall, this folder and music shows only light wear and aging. The writers, Morse, Fields and Carroll, were all performers and writers associated with Minstrelsy, Vaudeville and Broadway. This song is a racist minstrel show tune, playing up Aunties Skinner's dishes, like chicken and possum pie and the way the workers respond to it. On the plus side the song has very little dialect and is more about food and good times than race.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 8 pages

Product Info

Publisher: M. Witmark & Sons

Year: 1915

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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