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"Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Blue-Tail Fly" is an American song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the Virginia Minstrels. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the American folk music revival and has since become a popular children's song.
"Jimmy Crack Corn" is the second and final single taken from the Shady Records compilation album Eminem Presents: The Re-Up. The song features vocals from Eminem and 50 Cent, and the single version features vocals from Cashis, who also featured on "You Don't Know". "Jimmy Crack Corn" was the last single that Eminem released before his December ...
A sequel [32] was released on September 10, 2019, with the title Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn, published by Rare Bird Books, [33] as it directly continues off the events of the first novel, seeing Bob Honey, hunted by the authorities, head to Washington, D.C. to directly confront the Landlord. [34]
Temple played a guitarist who sang "Jimmy Crack Corn" also known as "Blue-Tailed Fly," with the saloon’s patrons. The townspeople—except for Matt Yordy—play along with the Lincoln look-alike, who claims that he is the president. Yordy is looking for a fight, and Abe obliges him. [7]
In his preface to "Foller de Drinkin' Gou'd", page 227 in his section on reels, he quotes a story from H.B Parks: "One of my great-uncles, who was connected with the railroad movement, remembered that in the records of the Anti-Slavery Society there was a story of a peg-leg sailor, known as Peg-Leg Joe, who made a number of trips through the ...
"Camptown Races", Stephen Foster, (1850) [12] "Can't Yo' Heah Me Callin' Caroline", Caro Roma (1914) "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" James A. Bland, (1878 ...
A fact from Jimmy Crack Corn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 September 2005. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that "Blue Tail Fly" or "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a blackface minstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black slave's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and ...
Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843 Dan Emmett performing in blackface. The Virginia Minstrels or Virginia Serenaders was a group of 19th-century American entertainers who helped invent the entertainment form known as the minstrel show.