Bert Williams, George Walker, and Aida Overton Walker
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From page 34 of the article “The Comic Side of Trouble,” by Bert Williams, American Magazine, Vol. 85 (1918), pp. 33-34, 58, 60-61:
Williams, of course, is obviously not a Danish name. Nobody in America knows my real name, and, if I can prevent it no one ever will. That was the only promise I made to my father.
Songbook pages on Bert Williams, George Walker, and Aida Overton Walker:
- Bert Williams & George Walker: selections from their first Victor recording session, 11 October 1901
- Bert Williams and George Walker: selected sheet music slide show and gallery, 1896-1908
- Bert Williams and George Walker slide show and gallery, 1896-1909
- Aida Overton Walker slide show and gallery
Bert Williams solo:
- Bert Williams: selected recordings, 1910-1920 + photo and sheet music galleries
- Bert Williams photo gallery, 1910-1920
- Bert Williams: selected sheet music and record label gallery, 1910-1920
Bert Williams resources
Online biographies:
Bert Williams:
- Encyclopedia of World Biography
- Wikipedia
- Black History Now
- AllMusic
- Broadway: The American Musical (pbs.org)
- Bert Williams — King of Comedy (Yesterday’s Papers)
Williams & Walker:
- Jass.com: Bert Williams & George Walker
- The Frogs: The Who, What, and Where of the Frogs (jass.com)
- Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America’s First Black Star by Camille F. Forbes (2008)
- Chapter 2: The Williams and Walker Years, pp. 37-163
- History of African American Theatre, A — by Errol G. Hill, James Vernon Hatch (2003) – Google eBooks preview
- pp. 162ff in Chapter 5, “New vistas: plays, spectacles, musicals, and operas” by Errol G. Hill
- Williams, Walker and Walker section of the Schomburg Exhibit “Harlem 1900-1940, an African-American Community” (exhibitions.nypl.org/harlem)
Books:
- Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America’s First Black Star by Camille F. Forbes (2008) – Google eBooks preview available
- Nobody: The Story of Bert Williams by Ann Charters (1970)
- The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei (2005) — Google eBooks
Articles:
- “Bert Williams,” by Booker T. Washington, in Interesting People column of American Magazine, Vol.70 (1910). pp. 600-601, 603-604 (Google eBooks)
- “The Comic Side of Trouble,” by Bert Williams, American Magazine, Vol. 85 (1918), pp. 33-34, 58, 60-61 (Google eBooks)
Audio files of recordings:
- Collected Works of Bert Williams – Internet Archive
- Collected Works of Bert Williams & George Walker — Internet Archive
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