(MUSIC--COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS.) CLARENCE JONES, SPENCER WILLIAMS, SPENCER N. EDMUNDS, HARRY CREAMER, SHELTON LEROY BROOKS, FATS WALLER. Over twenty pieces of printed sheet music, with colorful covers, including: Johnson Cole and Johnson's 'The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground,' 'Nobody's Lookin' but de Owl and de Moon"; Chris Smith's 'Ballin the Jack,' and Maceo Pinkard's 'I'm a Real Lovin' Woman for a Lovin' Man," and many others. Folio's size varies, usually 3 pages of music and lyrics with pictorial covers. condition generally very good, should be seen. Vp, 1900's to 1920's
A fine representative group of songs, many of which have become part of the fabric of our national musical heritage. 'The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground' is about the assault by the mostly black 54th Regiment on Fort Wagner during the Civil War. It is an allusion to a famous incident when the standard bearer Sergeant Wall of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers was shot and dropped the flag. Sergeant William Carney saw what was about to happen, and caught the flag before it could touch the ground. He won the Medal of Honor for his act.
