SKU: HL.148619

ISBN 9781495029684. UPC: 888680078515. 9.0x12.0x0.492 inches. With a Foreword by Thomas Riis.

Late in his life, composer J. Rosamond Johnson (Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing) submitted to his longtime publisher, E.B. Marks, a list of songs that would comprise a volume of his best early popular songs written with his pre-1910 partner Bob Cole and his brother, James Weldon Johnson (Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man). That list was never put into print...until now. Featuring an introductionby Dr. Thomas Riis (Just Before Jazz) and several rare photos, this new compilation is the latest legacy offering from the Marks archive, which contains a rich heritage of turn-of-the-century African-American, and thus distinctly American, pre-jazz-era popular song. Includes: Ain't Dat Scan'lous * Big Indian Chief * The Big Red Shawl * The Bleeding Moon * Congo Love Song * The Countess of Alagazam * Fishing * I Don't Want to Be No Actor Man No Mo' * I'll Always Love Old Dixie * I'll Keep a Warm Spot in My Heart for You * I've Got Troubles of My Own * The Katy-Did, the Cricket and the Frog * Lazy Moon * Lit'l Gal * Louisiana Lize * Lovely Daughter of Allah * Ma Mississippi Belle * The Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes * Mudder Knows * My Heart's Desiah is Miss Mariah * My Castle on the Nile * Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl an' de Moon * Oh, Didn't He Ramble * The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground * On the Road to Monterey * The Pathway of Love * Roll Them Cotton Bales * Save It for Me! * The Spirit of the Banjo! * Sugar Babe * Two Eyes * Under the Bamboo Tree * When de Jack O'Lantern Starts to Walk About * When It's All Goin' Out, and Nothin' Comin' In * Who Do You Love?

SKU: HL.48008868

UPC: 073999088687.

Contents: 1903: Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind (Shakespeare) • E'en As a Lovely Flower (Kate Krocker, after Heine) • Go Not, Happy Day (Tennyson) • The Devon Maid (Keats) • Dawn and Evening (C.A., after Heine) • 1905: Adoration (Keats) • Fair Daffodils (Herrick) • So Perverse (Robert Bridges) • 1906: Come To Me in My Dreams (Matthew Arnold) • The Violets Blue (James Thomson, after Heine) • 1907: All Things That We Clasp (Emma Lazarus, after Heine) • 1913: Strew No More Red Roses (Matthew Arnold) • 1914: Where She Lies Asleep (Mary E. Coleridge) • Love Went a-Riding (Mary E. Coleridge) • 1917: Thy Hand in Mine (Mary E. Coleridge) • 1918: So Early in the Morning, O (James Stephens) • Mantle of Blue (Padraic Colum) • Blow Out, You Bugles (Rupert Brooke) • The Last Invocation (Walt Whitman) • 1919: Into Her Keeping (H.D. Lowry) • What Shall I Your True Love Tell? (Francis Thompson) • 'Tis But a Week (Gerald Gould).

SKU: PR.111401290

UPC: 680160002672.

Throughout the work, the text continually confirms the relationship of time and death, and the colorful but terrifying environments that only too few have survived. There is also the sense of time that is found in growing up; the too soon conclusion of life as in Frozen Ceremony - the static going nowhere of the midnight ladies - the age old plea of the Neon Philosopher - the time is out of Starbright - the sudden awareness of getting older in Funeral Weather.