[Ads-l] Plea for NewspaperArchive Search

[George Thompson]

As it happens, today's mail brought me "Long Lost Blues", a book by Peter C
Muir, from 2010.  "Baby Seals Blues" is discussed on p. 142, and in a long
note on pp. 235-36, along with "Dallas Blues".  Hart A. Wand, the writer
of "Dallas Blues", was interviewed for a book published in the 1950s --
which itself is around the house, somewhere.  Wand claimed that his blues
was published in March, 1912, before "Baby Seals Blues".  Muir gives
reasons to doubt the claim, which would suggest that "Baby Seals Blues" was
published in April of that year or not much later.

GAT

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> I cancelled my subscription to NewspaperArchive some time ago.  Is anyone
> willing to search it for me ?  I am interested in the earliest mentions of
> the song "Baby Seals Blues."  The mentions would presumably occur some time
> in 1912, and what I am trying to find out is any information about when the
> song was first published.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)

https://heritagecollections.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/HOP_WOA_3851

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