3-CD Digipak (8-plated) with 88-page booklet, 76 tracks. Total playing time approx. 211 mns.

Featuring four artists from Bear Family's long-awaited 44-disc set 'Black Europe'.
Early 'coon songs' and snappy ragtime music from nearly 100 years ago!
Includes the early recordings of Josephine Baker from 1926.
Booklet includes full artist biographies, discographical information and additional pictures not included in the original 'Black Europe' books.

Bear Family's essential 44-CD set 'Black Europe' follows the lives of more than 100 musicians, dancers and entertainers across Europe and tells their amazing stories through audio documents, recording protocols, passport applications and numerous other unseen treasures from years of research.

This 3-disc set features four of these artists, and each one provides a glimpse into another century. Pete Hampton & Laura Bowman are featured with recordings from 1903 - 1910, taken from 78 rpm records and wax cylinders. They had Europe-wide hits with their 'coon songs' - and Pete Hampton was the first African-American who recorded the harmonica!
The Savoy Quartet was known as ''one of the best ragtime bands in town'' and their tracks from 1916-1920 show them covering Gershwin, Irving Berlin and other witty songs like Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night? And He May Be Old But He's Got Young Ideas.
Josiah Ransome Kuti was the grandfather of Fela Kuti (the iconic AfroBeat pioneer) and he was recorded in London, singing religious songs in Yoruba, accompanied by piano or his own percussion. Also featured here are his take on a 'patriotic song' and Abeokuta National Anthem, a tune which is still sung today as a folk song.
Josephine Baker came to Paris in 1926 as a dancer, but she soon made recordings, and her roots and artistry shine through strongly on these tracks. A year later she rivalled movie stars Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford as the most photographed woman in the world, and she was thought to be the highest-paid entertainer in Europe.

Track Listing

• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Parodien (Hans Moser: Die Reblaus/ Johannes Heesters: Man Müsste Klavier Spielen Können/ Eddie Constantine: Ich Wünsch' Dir Einen Schlaflosen Abend/ Vico Torriani: In Der Schweiz/ Bill Haley: See You Later, Alligator
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home (5053)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - When Sousa Comes To Coon-Town (2026-o)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Hannah Won't You Open That Door' (2027-o)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Tell Me Dusky Maiden (2104-o)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Stay In Your Own Back Yard (2105-o)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - I'm Goin' To Live Anyhow Till I Die (N 480-1)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - My Friend From My Home (6118)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Since Rastus Went To Gay Paree (2436)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Massa's In The Cold Cold Ground (5325 b)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - The Mouth-Organ Coon (1072-1)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Swannee River (Old Folks At Home) (1031)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - The Phrenologist Coon (5051)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Oh Them Golden Slippers (1681)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Any Rags' (1685)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - I Can't Keep From Laughing (13262)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Mammy's Only Child (2861)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - What You Goin' To Do When The Rent Comes 'round' (16495)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Ain't Yer Gwine To Say \How-Do\'' (6863)'
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Moving Day (6882)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - A Cotton Field Episode (130)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Ev'ry Little Bit Helps (60942)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Mister Your Room Rent's Due (4005)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - Down In Georgia On Camp Meeting Day (4008)
• Hampton, Pete & Bowman, Laura - If That Ain't Winning A Home (4010)

• The Savoy Quartet - Over There! (HO 3877 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Down Texas Way (HO 3878 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night' (HO 2997 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Down Home In Tennessee (HO 2998 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - The Kipling Walk (HO 3002 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Oh! How She Could Yacki, Hacki, Wicki, Wacki Woo (HO 3497 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow (HO 3672 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - He May Be Old, But He's Got Young Ideas (HO 3673 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Indian Rag (HO 4088 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Hello! New York (HO 4089 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - I Don't Want To Get Well (HO 4091 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - The Darktown Strutters' Ball (HO 4425 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Oh! Frenchy! (HO 4606 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Everything Is Peaches Down in Georgia (HO 4610 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Tackin' 'em Down (HO 4834 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Everybody Shimmies Now (HO 4835 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - K-K-K-Katy (HO 4840 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - What Do You Mean By Loving Somebody Else' (HO 4927 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Hindustan (HO 5229 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar (HO 5573 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - I've Got My Captain Working For Me Now (HO 5576 II ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Swanee (HO 5708 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - At The Moving Picture Ball (HO 5917 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Venetian Moon (HO 5918 ae)
• The Savoy Quartet - Sweet Kisses (HO 5919 ae)

• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Isun ka wà tó kun fun eje (Bb 1573 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Igbàla (Bb 1563 I & Bb 1564 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Obángíjì Iwo lo to sìn (Bb 1489 II)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Mo sa di Jesu (Bb 1490 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Odun Jubilee (Bb 1538 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Jesu nsehìn bò (Bb 1542 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Olugbala la f'ori fun (Bb 1546 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - E je ka júmò gbàgbó (Bb 1554 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Esù sare tete, Jesu dé (Bb 1560 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Egbé Awon Angeli (Bb 1574 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Ofin mewa ati Idahùn (Bb 1576 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - K' Olorun da oba si (Bb 1578 I)
• Josiah Ransome-Kuti - Bi E o le E le (Bb 1579 I)
• Josephine Baker - Who' (Ki 920)
• Josephine Baker - That Certain Feeling (Ki 921)
• Josephine Baker - Dinah (Ki 922)
• Josephine Baker - Sleepy Time Gal (Ki 923)
• Josephine Baker - I Wonder Where My Baby Is To-night (Ki 924)
• Josephine Baker - Bam Bam Bamy Shore (Ki 925)
• Josephine Baker - I Want To Yodel (Ki 926)
• Josephine Baker - You Are The Only One For Me (Ki 938)
• Josephine Baker - Feeling Kind Of Blue (Ki 939)
• Josephine Baker - Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue (Ki 940)
• Josephine Baker - Always (Ki 960)
• Josephine Baker - I Love My Baby (Ki 957)
• Josephine Baker - I Found A New Baby (Ki 958)
• Josephine Baker - Skeedle-Um (Ki 959)

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: World

Run Time: 211 mins

Release Date: 10/25/13

UPC: 5397102160202