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A painting by Jacob Lawrence I am cleaning, sorting, and listing to a stack of records for future sale and was impressed by this record by Frank Crumit. It's from Victor's popular offerings for 1926 and is great example of a contemporary ballad that pulls its material from a recent and continuing event. It's topic is of African Americans leaving the south to points north. The lyrics caught my ear and I had to Google it.

Here's the song from YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVfMB3vIMMU

Here's its history
http://www.history.com/topics/black-his ... -migration

I've always found these topical songs to very interesting.

James.

A lot of white people worked in the cotton fields, too. And were subject to the same economic conditions that drove the migration (white & black) into the northern cities.

I like that one