If you like it there are other laughimg songs. Harry Lauder's "Stop yet Ticklin,: Jock!" Is my favorite. Eddie Cantor sang "she gave them all the Ha! Ha! Ha!" another funny one from the 1920s. Cal Stewart, AKA Uncle Josh, did a laughing song named, "ticklish reuben. " Collins and Harlan did an Edison diamond disc laughing record. Groucho Marx did a 78 RPM children's record called, "The funniest song in the world. " There were many more.
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See that's the problem, those things that were out of his control don't define him. A talented musician made a song that still lives today, that is what Johnson was.
He probably wasn't laughing all the time. "There is no evidence that he ever legally married or had any children, but Johnson did have at least two 'common-law wives', both of whom died while living with him.[15] The first, an unnamed "German woman", was found dead in their apartment on West 39th Street in late 1894 or early 1895. No charges were filed. The second, Roskin Stuart, was found beaten and unconscious in their apartment on West 41st Street on October 12, 1899. Stuart was taken to the hospital and died a few hours later. Johnson was tried for first-degree murder and found not guilty." Apparently, the record company paid a very large fee, ($2,000) to "get him off", although most sources say he was innocent.
Allyn, all recordings from 1877 to 1925 were acoustical recordings, produced with no electricity and no microphones. "These recorders typically used a large conical horn to collect and focus the physical air pressure of the sound waves produced by the human voice or musical instruments."
Mr. Johnson has gained my full respect. I've always been different from everyone. My face was deformed at birth, I hate modern music, preferring opera and 1800's music, and was bullied for all this. I wasn't the most athletic or smartest student. I wasn't the most talented or good looking idol. I didn't have any friends because of the nasty rumors everyone spread about me. But through all of that, Mr. Johnson kept me happy and laughing. Everyone'd call me a wierdo and freak for laughing, but that made me laugh harder. Now I carry this rule of thumb and hope to share it until the day I die. "Laughter is the best medicine.." Rest in Peace Mr. Johnson. You changed my life..
Right, after 1900 they had more durable record Masters. When Johnson had to record over and over it was to make a master cylinder that would produce some 20 loud copies and up to 30 more that were a bit quieter because the master cylinder was wearing down. He would also make Masters at one session for local reproduction as well as wants to be sent off across the country to another company so they could make copies on their cylinder blanks.
When this song was recorded, there was no way of quickly reproducing records - so the singer simply had to sing the song over and over again with a bank of microphones in front of him (or her), each one physically transferring the music to a disk. This record sold 50,000 copies, so I imagine Mr Johnson had a good few weeks worth of work to provide those copies and was thoroughly sick of the song when he was done!
Shane Wright Microphones weren't really a thing for records in this period... they sang into a single large 'recording horn'. Still, quite a few early cylinders and records were 'live' recordings... but those record companies still had ways to make multiple copies. Early record/cylinder engravers were hooked together by rubber tubes. Additional copies were sometimes passed off as original recordings by recording from one of the better cylinder recordings... buyer beware! At least until 1902. By 1902 they finally had a viable 'master' method, and they recorded directly onto a master that could be used to make a number of cylinders/records. They definitely still had to make more than one master, but nowhere near the dozens or hundreds of recordings they would make in the 1880s.. :-) However, even after this point there were times a substandard master would be made by playing a recording into the recording horn of another master recorder. Early on this was most often done for making records based on the cylinder recording. It could be done the other way too. Electric recording wasn't a thing until the mid 1920s. Part of why the music pre-1930 sounds so... well... bad, is because when they were playing into a horn instead of into a microphone the horn couldn't pick up the full range without distortion. No loud drums, astounding bass, or soft singing. The 'loud' instruments were frequently far away from the singers (or left out all together) and the singers that specialized in exaggerated styles were best for the recording.
+cl3mb0t I read once that Bing Crosby sold so many copies of his single "White Christmas", that he had to re-record it because the masters were ruined. And that was the 1940's
My mum used to tell me about this song..and I never got to find it while she was alive. I wish she was with me to hear this!!/❤❤❤❤❤ Such a Handsome Man with a beautiful Laugh.....
This strikes me as being vaguely racist, or, at the very least, quite patronizing. It's also somewhat disturbing that 122 people (as of this writing) agreed with it.
@Sir Walter Raleigh What Country do you think he's from that has communists taking over? Because I'd like to go there. Never heard of a Country like that since Cuba restarted under Castro.
@@jmama7366 come on, man. Racist? It seems like bee aem's first language isn't English and he is only saying that the singer is coming from a happy, wholesome, and lighthearted place in this song. Not that black people are simpletons. Jesus
As I was coming around the corner I heard some people say, "Here comes a dandy darky, Here he comes this way, His heel is like a snowplow, His mouth is like a trap, And when he opens it gently, You will see a fearful gap." And then I laughed . . . They said, "His mother was a Princess, His father was a Prince, And he'd been the apple of their eye If he had not been a quince. But he'll be the King of Africa In the sweet by and by", And when I heard them say it, why I laughed until I cried. And then I laughed . . . So now, kind friend, just listen To what I'm going to say. I've tried my best to please you With my simple little lay. Now, whether you think it's funny, Or quite a bit of chaff, Why all I'm going to do is Just to end it with a laugh. And then I laughed . . .
Absolutely, a lot of folks talk about wanting to live in the past but hey we got the internet you decide what you want to listen to and that's marvelous
I can't believe this recording exists!!! George Johnson first African American to sing on a recording 133 yrs old!!!! Alot of things he went through! So glad he was able to be positive! I heard this when I was a child over 50 yrs ago in social studies class!!!! I respect him since things were changing in our country for the better!!!
I just did research on him and I've got to say - besides the obviously racist names and lyrics in some of his songs, he's one of the greatest! I wish they incorporated this song in Bioshock Infinite, or games taking place in that era - it's one of the few ways music like this gets noticed nowadays.
***** You fail to understand my comment. Calling all blacks "African American" is the fucked up part. What if you're born in America of *Jamaican* decent? You wouldn't be African American, yet you'd still have to fill that out on the SATs.
***** Sure, but the same argument can be made for Europeans. Why bother distinguishing Irish-Americans from Anglo-Americans when the ancestors of Ireland and England came from mainland Europe in the first place? Completely ignoring their Jamaican heritage and lumping them into one big group of "African Americans" is culturally insensitive. Also, I've never heard anyone call a Jamaican "Afro-Jamaicans" *least of all Jamaicans themselves*. They always refer to themselves as just "Jamaican" (maybe you should actually visit the place instead of spouting off theoretical labels). In conclusion, lumping everyone with dark skin into the "African American" label is incredibly stupid. Don't know why anyone thinks this is a good idea, but it needs to stop.
For those who study like history, this is a recording of the very first black recording artist, George Washington Johnson. He was the first black recording artist, making records from about 1890 until 1914, the year of his death. He was discovered performing on a steamboat by an agent for Edison and was signed up because of his loud rockers and clear voice, and the fact that he came with his own material. Johnson was born a slave and was freed after the civil war. He was the first black recording artist of any vote and he recorded for every phonograph company on a city basis after his first North American cylinders were released in the early 1890s. Illiterate, George w. Johnson had only four songs in his repertoire, which he recorded over and over in every record format of that time for every company issuing recordings. Innocent Johnson wrote all of his own material. He
Regarding his "accent" please note that the NY accent and that of the Deep South or (East) Coastal American has a lot in common with many British or English-English accents, for both blacks and whites who speak it. Those areas are where the English settled.
Pretty amazing that we can listen to the voice of someone born in 1846. Not only that, but born a SLAVE in Virginia who eventually was freed, learned to read and write, made his way to New York City, and became an entertainer. Pretty incredible story.
@@Paradroid1793 Actually he was freed in 1853, when he was a young child, and taken under the wing of a local farmer as a servant and laborer ( things were still tough for black people then, even as a free man) and he was taught to read and write, which was technically illegal in antebellum Virginia. Thankfully, he was able to leave the south and made his way to New York by the 1870s as a young man.
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I did some research on this recording and found out that the pianist here was Fred Hylands. The melody was co-authored by Johnson and Frank P. Banta. It was first issued on the E. Berliner’s Gramophone label.
Smoking my tobacco pipe and having a couple beers listening to old music outside on my porch under an umbrella in the sun on a nice cool spring day is great!
@@overpricedhealthcare For shade I imagine, umbrellas weren't just designed for rain. Infact they were originally invented to shade oneself from the sun.
That alien whistling noise is an artifact of some digital software, used to clean up the recording. This could be done better, but it's better than nothing.
@@FungusMossGnosis we don't know for sure that he did it and unless you can come up with undeniable proof that he did under the laws of innocent until proven guilty he's clean and therefore doesn't deserve to have his reputation destroyed over 100 years after his death because of a rumor.
@@dguy0386 in the early morning of October 12, 1899, Johnson reported finding her beaten and unconscious in their spartan apartment after an apparent night of carousing; she died a few hours later. Johnson was arrested and charged with murder Johnson never took the stand.
@@cpake3198 so you're saying he reported his own murder? in a time period when someone could have beaten her to death for being married to a famous black person? its also important to mention that the court found him not guilty
From Wikipedia: "In 1922, [Charles] Penrose made the first recording of his song "The Laughing Policeman" under the pseudonym 'Charles Jolly', with the composition of the song officially credited to his wife Mabel under the pseudonym 'Billie Grey'. However, the music, melody, and laughing are taken from "The Laughing Song" by the American George W. Johnson, which was first recorded in 1891." Growing up in UK we used to hear the Laughling Policeman quite regularly on the radio.
No, not really it's actually pretty racist but it's cool technology and he made history as the first black recording artist. That's the positive thing about it and he has a memorial thingy...so that's great.
According to my Joel Whitburn books, there were at least 3 different charted versions of this,the earliest of which was 1891. In reality, GW Johnson recorded this over 40,000 times (on wax cylinders, not flat records), because mass-producing a song was not yet invented. Great musical artifact.
You can tell just by hearing this man's music, he was a genuinely happy, and caring guy. I absolutely love this man's song, but kinda disappointed I can't find an hd version. But this will have to do. God I'm like a grandpa. I'm 14 and I'm listening to music from the 1800's......
Im suprised mainstream modern music masterminds haven't butchered this masterpiece with a Sebastian Ivacson feat Jay Z and Miley Cyrus Remix with several TH-cam edits by youtube wannabe DJs who are simply sound editors.
the singer you're listening lived in a world where eiffel tower, brooklyn bridge, titanic, car, plane, radio, wtc, internet, space exploration, trump, pewdiepie, large hadron collider, my little pony, aids and iPhone were yet to happen. Can you just imagine it
Laughing as a chorus is genius.
bryantubing it really is!
Was popular back then, "Turkey in the Straw" has an outstanding example.
If you like it there are other laughimg songs. Harry Lauder's "Stop yet Ticklin,: Jock!" Is my favorite. Eddie Cantor sang "she gave them all the Ha! Ha! Ha!" another funny one from the 1920s. Cal Stewart, AKA Uncle Josh, did a laughing song named, "ticklish reuben. " Collins and Harlan did an Edison diamond disc laughing record. Groucho Marx did a 78 RPM children's record called,
"The funniest song in the world. " There were many more.
@@darknessanddistance4469 The Laughing Policeman too
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A man who was born a slave, who died not knowing his birthday, made one of the most famous songs ever, that still lives on to this day. Wow.
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October 29, 1846
Virginia, U.S.
See that's the problem, those things that were out of his control don't define him. A talented musician made a song that still lives today, that is what Johnson was.
Unique song. What song has laughing as a chorus? This song does it well
My grandfather (born 1908) used to play this on the piano and sing it to us when I was a kid. Great memory.
My grandfather was born in 1923 and was in ww2
Mine is born in 1961
My grandpa was born in 1940 and still lives today even though I’m 9 1/2
And my grandpa‘s 82
All of my grandparents except my mom‘s dad what’s born in the 40s
He laughed through the hard times. Nothing but respect for him.
He probably wasn't laughing all the time.
"There is no evidence that he ever legally married or had any children, but Johnson did have at least two 'common-law wives', both of whom died while living with him.[15] The first, an unnamed "German woman", was found dead in their apartment on West 39th Street in late 1894 or early 1895. No charges were filed. The second, Roskin Stuart, was found beaten and unconscious in their apartment on West 41st Street on October 12, 1899. Stuart was taken to the hospital and died a few hours later. Johnson was tried for first-degree murder and found not guilty."
Apparently, the record company paid a very large fee, ($2,000) to "get him off", although most sources say he was innocent.
Just a friendly reminder: This was recorded without electricity. The microphone was 27 years away at this point, folks.
That"s crazy!
Carlos Gonzalez what? Wow. I wonder how we can hear him then
Allyn, all recordings from 1877 to 1925 were acoustical recordings, produced with no electricity and no microphones. "These recorders typically used a large conical horn to collect and focus the physical air pressure of the sound waves produced by the human voice or musical instruments."
are these considered public domain now?
You had to scream in a set of 2 giant horns one was wood and one was brass and they picked up the base and the high frequency
Mr. Johnson has gained my full respect.
I've always been different from everyone.
My face was deformed at birth, I hate modern music, preferring opera and 1800's music, and was bullied for all this.
I wasn't the most athletic or smartest student.
I wasn't the most talented or good looking idol.
I didn't have any friends because of the nasty rumors everyone spread about me.
But through all of that, Mr. Johnson kept me happy and laughing.
Everyone'd call me a wierdo and freak for laughing, but that made me laugh harder.
Now I carry this rule of thumb and hope to share it until the day I die.
"Laughter is the best medicine.."
Rest in Peace Mr. Johnson.
You changed my life..
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i hate new music to
Fair play bro
Beautiful comment
I like the music of the 90s.
1890's-1950's music is the best.
@@Billy219 I think that 50's had its punch I mean it had elvis and short shorts I think that songs all in the 20th century is good
80s better!!!
Gut]ya I think was making the 90s joke. Making it sound like he said 1990s, feking boomers. The 1200s was CLEARLY te best period of music.
Yeah , it is very simple
still cant believe he sang this 1000 times just so it can be recorded in multiple cylinders
In later recordings he wouldn't have to
That is what can be called true determination to succeed :)
Actually 50
Right, after 1900 they had more durable record Masters. When Johnson had to record over and over it was to make a master cylinder that would produce some 20 loud copies and up to 30 more that were a bit quieter because the master cylinder was wearing down. He would also make Masters at one session for local reproduction as well as wants to be sent off across the country to another company so they could make copies on their cylinder blanks.
So he's laughing from insanity
He born 170 years ago :O...
You were born 0 years ago :0
@@Billy219 im getting creeped by you and ada jones fan profile
@@Billy219 check ada jones fan like jesus
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Great Scott
"What kind of music do you listen to?"
"90s music."
"Oh cool. You like Backstreet Boys and the Spice Girls?"
"No, not 1990s. 1890s 👌"
@@Billy219 not all of it
The 1890's are still alive in Portland.
@@jacobrhaas That is absolute bullshit. It is a leftist cesspool.
@laverdadescatolica5 as recently as 2017 that could still truthfully be said by at least one person
When this song was recorded, there was no way of quickly reproducing records - so the singer simply had to sing the song over and over again with a bank of microphones in front of him (or her), each one physically transferring the music to a disk. This record sold 50,000 copies, so I imagine Mr Johnson had a good few weeks worth of work to provide those copies and was thoroughly sick of the song when he was done!
Why wouldn't they record it once and play that into the bank of microphones?
I don't think the reproductive fidelity of that process would have been acceptable even by the standards of this lo-lo-lo fi times!
Shane Wright
Microphones weren't really a thing for records in this period... they sang into a single large 'recording horn'. Still, quite a few early cylinders and records were 'live' recordings... but those record companies still had ways to make multiple copies. Early record/cylinder engravers were hooked together by rubber tubes. Additional copies were sometimes passed off as original recordings by recording from one of the better cylinder recordings... buyer beware! At least until 1902.
By 1902 they finally had a viable 'master' method, and they recorded directly onto a master that could be used to make a number of cylinders/records. They definitely still had to make more than one master, but nowhere near the dozens or hundreds of recordings they would make in the 1880s.. :-)
However, even after this point there were times a substandard master would be made by playing a recording into the recording horn of another master recorder. Early on this was most often done for making records based on the cylinder recording. It could be done the other way too.
Electric recording wasn't a thing until the mid 1920s. Part of why the music pre-1930 sounds so... well... bad, is because when they were playing into a horn instead of into a microphone the horn couldn't pick up the full range without distortion. No loud drums, astounding bass, or soft singing. The 'loud' instruments were frequently far away from the singers (or left out all together) and the singers that specialized in exaggerated styles were best for the recording.
+cl3mb0t I read once that Bing Crosby sold so many copies of his single "White Christmas", that he had to re-record it because the masters were ruined. And that was the 1940's
cl3mb0t Quite right and my mistake!
My mum used to tell me about this song..and I never got to find it while she was alive. I wish she was with me to hear this!!/❤❤❤❤❤
Such a Handsome Man with a beautiful Laugh.....
She is with you
Randomly got this on recommended videos after searching 1800s and 1900s songs. 😅 Now I'm here loving this song sm.
To think it’s the laugh from someone born so many many years ago.
It actually reminds me of how short life actually is.
This song managed to put me in a good mood.
A song made over 120 years ago.
That's some staying power!
Only 90s kids remember this.
Ha true
+Otto Halmén I'm not really a 90s kid I was born in 1899
more like "ha ha ha haaaaa"
Lol. XD.
I'm also actually a 2000s kid
I can feel how simple he is. He 's laughing from heart and he's very kind. No complication. I like his simplicity.
This strikes me as being vaguely racist, or, at the very least, quite patronizing. It's also somewhat disturbing that 122 people (as of this writing) agreed with it.
@Sir Walter Raleigh Wow that anger must be a burden to spew all day long.
@Sir Walter Raleigh What Country do you think he's from that has communists taking over? Because I'd like to go there. Never heard of a Country like that since Cuba restarted under Castro.
@Sir Walter Raleigh you are 100% correct.
@@jmama7366 come on, man. Racist? It seems like bee aem's first language isn't English and he is only saying that the singer is coming from a happy, wholesome, and lighthearted place in this song. Not that black people are simpletons. Jesus
THIS IS WHAT TH-cam IS ALL ABOUT FOR ME! FIRST EVER BLACK RECORDING ARTIST!
As I was coming around the corner
I heard some people say,
"Here comes a dandy darky,
Here he comes this way,
His heel is like a snowplow,
His mouth is like a trap,
And when he opens it gently,
You will see a fearful gap."
And then I laughed . . .
They said, "His mother was a Princess,
His father was a Prince,
And he'd been the apple of their eye
If he had not been a quince.
But he'll be the King of Africa
In the sweet by and by",
And when I heard them say it, why
I laughed until I cried.
And then I laughed . . .
So now, kind friend, just listen
To what I'm going to say.
I've tried my best to please you
With my simple little lay.
Now, whether you think it's funny,
Or quite a bit of chaff,
Why all I'm going to do is
Just to end it with a laugh.
And then I laughed . . .
I was so hoping I would find the lyrics. Thank you.
I, too, was hoping I'd find the lyrics. Thank you!
Jesus Christ its racist af lol
The fact that this was recorded in the 1800s is mind blowing
My favorite song from the 1890s, I will make sure when I have kids to play this for them to pass on to generations because this is happy music
If it wasn't for TH-cam, I would have never heard this. Modern technology ís good for something!
Yes,technology is good for SOME things.
Absolutely, a lot of folks talk about wanting to live in the past but hey we got the internet you decide what you want to listen to and that's marvelous
Look he face this face so fun he make me smile i like him..
Omg...the guy died long ago...but we are listening to him today in 2017....this is CRAZY!
@@Jeremiah_Auger look at the date of the comment, someone will correct you in a few years
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90s music!
I'm a sex offender.
Docteor Firehawk Ok................
Lol
Docteor Firehawk okay nice
@defpickles98 you were born in 1998.
He was entertaining and a fine whistler. Glad to have these old recording - thanks for posting.
I've heard the tune of this song as a kid and never knew where it came from. Thanks!
The Laughing Policeman is more likely. It's the same tune.
If I could make someone alive from a long time ago it would be him. His voice is so sweet.
True...you can tell how was his personality.So amazing!
The Angry Toy Bonnie i would take cäcilia gabriel
My Dad & Grandpa sang & played this song around the campfire and taught it to me when I was boy
I've heard this; don't remember where. Dig the piano player too.
thats neat
Read the book of Obadiah in the Bible
I can't believe this recording exists!!! George Johnson first African American to sing on a recording 133 yrs old!!!! Alot of things he went through! So glad he was able to be positive! I heard this when I was a child over 50 yrs ago in social studies class!!!! I respect him since things were changing in our country for the better!!!
Thank you for your contribution to the world. You were a genius. 2024, I'm so proud to be ❤🖤💚🎤
I remember when i was a kid and this song first came out and was on the top 10 billboards, good memories
It’s crazy to listen to a song that was made 130+ years before I was born and to think this man has passed away long long ago
I just did research on him and I've got to say - besides the obviously racist names and lyrics in some of his songs, he's one of the greatest! I wish they incorporated this song in Bioshock Infinite, or games taking place in that era - it's one of the few ways music like this gets noticed nowadays.
All_Fallout Yea he was super talented and had an important influence on the future of music! Haha this would be a cool song for Bioshock Infinite.
it does look like he murdered two wives, though
History Man
Not really. Today, we call black people "African American" which is far more fucked up than your example.
*****
You fail to understand my comment. Calling all blacks "African American" is the fucked up part. What if you're born in America of *Jamaican* decent? You wouldn't be African American, yet you'd still have to fill that out on the SATs.
*****
Sure, but the same argument can be made for Europeans. Why bother distinguishing Irish-Americans from Anglo-Americans when the ancestors of Ireland and England came from mainland Europe in the first place?
Completely ignoring their Jamaican heritage and lumping them into one big group of "African Americans" is culturally insensitive. Also, I've never heard anyone call a Jamaican "Afro-Jamaicans" *least of all Jamaicans themselves*. They always refer to themselves as just "Jamaican" (maybe you should actually visit the place instead of spouting off theoretical labels).
In conclusion, lumping everyone with dark skin into the "African American" label is incredibly stupid. Don't know why anyone thinks this is a good idea, but it needs to stop.
Listened maybe 1,000,000 times since i found this a month ago
For those who study like history, this is a recording of the very first black recording artist, George Washington Johnson. He was the first black recording artist, making records from about 1890 until 1914, the year of his death. He was discovered performing on a steamboat by an agent for Edison and was signed up because of his loud rockers and clear voice, and the fact that he came with his own material. Johnson was born a slave and was freed after the civil war. He was the first black recording artist of any vote and he recorded for every phonograph company on a city basis after his first North American cylinders were released in the early 1890s. Illiterate, George w. Johnson had only four songs in his repertoire, which he recorded over and over in every record format of that time for every company issuing recordings. Innocent Johnson wrote all of his own material. He
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Later on this song has the word policeman switched standard
George is a legend... Who is sadly forgotten
@@howler1579Not now he has a memorial, and now you see people on the Internet playing and remembering him
Que interessante
this is absolutely amazing
Regarding his "accent" please note that the NY accent and that of the Deep South or (East) Coastal American has a lot in common with many British or English-English accents, for both blacks and whites who speak it. Those areas are where the English settled.
What an evocative voice .. wonderful to hear it 👏👏
Pretty amazing that we can listen to the voice of someone born in 1846. Not only that, but born a SLAVE in Virginia who eventually was freed, learned to read and write, made his way to New York City, and became an entertainer. Pretty incredible story.
Johnson was illiterate I am pretty sure unfortunately.
@@Paradroid1793 Actually he was freed in 1853, when he was a young child, and taken under the wing of a local farmer as a servant and laborer ( things were still tough for black people then, even as a free man) and he was taught to read and write, which was technically illegal in antebellum Virginia. Thankfully, he was able to leave the south and made his way to New York by the 1870s as a young man.
@@joshn938 Oh wow! I did not know that! Also props to your for responding 4 years later!
He has a wonderful laugh.
Wow, this 120 year old recording is still easier to understand than modern rap and hip-hop music. Seems like we've regressed.
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Girl no ...black people are called darkies in this song...like he made history but the song is definitely of this time
I wonder how would my friends react if i put this song in a party?
That would be funny
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Sounds great!
I did that at my school dance
Do it and see how the reaction turns out
Who cares how they react just play the song
This song makes me smile every time I here it 🙂
R.i.p 1846-1914
A nice and special record !! Thanks for posting.
I’m new to finding this fine tune, I like it!
Thanks for posting this!!
I did some research on this recording and found out that the pianist here was Fred Hylands. The melody was co-authored by Johnson and Frank P. Banta. It was first issued on the E. Berliner’s Gramophone label.
things like this make me wish i could go back to the 1890s.
Obviously incomparable to anything I might hear on today's popular charts and music in general, it's just so much better
I know this is from 5 years ago but wow, really?
This is a cool songl like hearing this really old music l love history
Smoking my tobacco pipe and having a couple beers listening to old music outside on my porch under an umbrella in the sun on a nice cool spring day is great!
why need an umbrella? you're already covered
@@overpricedhealthcare For shade I imagine, umbrellas weren't just designed for rain. Infact they were originally invented to shade oneself from the sun.
I love this song this song really makes me happy as a very joyful tune that people of all generations can enjoy
Thank you For Sharing peace and love ❤❤ Appreciate You
Imagine if we can live forever and he was still alive today. I like this
;-;
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i wish, seemed like a cheerful dude
God, I miss real music like this!
You say you miss it like you were there
Nik Gulley you werent even alive to miss it
I MISS it to I was in the audience when this song was being sang live
MaSK shes a time traveler
Only just finding your channel. Thank you 😊
Better than most of today’s songs
said by a millennial
someone should restore this great song! what an infectiously fun guy!
That alien whistling noise is an artifact of some digital software, used to clean up the recording. This could be done better, but it's better than nothing.
Imagine performing this song then your mind suddenly comes up with something funny and then you laughed
S N E A K 1 0 0
george out here making bangers
This is actually kinda catchy
i love old music like this
He’s laughing in heaven now
He killed two wives, so.... don't think so.
@@FungusMossGnosis we don't know for sure that he did it and unless you can come up with undeniable proof that he did under the laws of innocent until proven guilty he's clean and therefore doesn't deserve to have his reputation destroyed over 100 years after his death because of a rumor.
@@dguy0386 in the early morning of October 12, 1899, Johnson reported finding her beaten and unconscious in their spartan apartment after an apparent night of carousing; she died a few hours later. Johnson was arrested and charged with murder Johnson never took the stand.
@@cpake3198 so you're saying he reported his own murder? in a time period when someone could have beaten her to death for being married to a famous black person? its also important to mention that the court found him not guilty
@@dguy0386 ye the idiot reported his own crime HAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
This was Pinkie Pie’s inspiration for the song “The Laughter Song” (aka “Giggle At The Ghostly”)
From Wikipedia:
"In 1922, [Charles] Penrose made the first recording of his song "The Laughing Policeman" under the pseudonym 'Charles Jolly', with the composition of the song officially credited to his wife Mabel under the pseudonym 'Billie Grey'. However, the music, melody, and laughing are taken from "The Laughing Song" by the American George W. Johnson, which was first recorded in 1891."
Growing up in UK we used to hear the Laughling Policeman quite regularly on the radio.
Great song)) thanks, sewn kin :)
A photo of George singing and the pianist playing at the recording studio is on discogs
I wonder how did he recorded it without breaking out to laughter!
he had "talent" written all over him
This song sounds better than most of the crappy songs today.
No shit
No, not really it's actually pretty racist but it's cool technology and he made history as the first black recording artist. That's the positive thing about it and he has a memorial thingy...so that's great.
I'm listening to a man that died 106 years ago sing
So, what kind of music do you like?
The biggest beat drop ever songs lol
I still remember hearing this back in the 1890's... *sigh* Where have the good times gone?
Kids these days
I love it so much and the singer too
According to my Joel Whitburn books, there were at least 3 different charted versions of this,the earliest of which was 1891. In reality, GW Johnson recorded this over 40,000 times (on wax cylinders, not flat records), because mass-producing a song was not yet invented. Great musical artifact.
You can tell just by hearing this man's music, he was a genuinely happy, and caring guy. I absolutely love this man's song, but kinda disappointed I can't find an hd version. But this will have to do. God I'm like a grandpa. I'm 14 and I'm listening to music from the 1800's......
thanks enjoyed this
real 90's music
There's absolutely NOTHING like laughing with our timeless accompaniment. Stay safe everyone!
Listening to this actually put a smile on my face
I still remember when this became a hit back in the 90s
This song is awesome: I hear that in 2017 and I laugh so much !
This is the best thing I've saw today
Thanks for posting.
Im suprised mainstream modern music masterminds haven't butchered this masterpiece with a Sebastian Ivacson feat Jay Z and Miley Cyrus Remix with several TH-cam edits by youtube wannabe DJs who are simply sound editors.
Priceless! What a gem.
the singer you're listening lived in a world where eiffel tower, brooklyn bridge, titanic, car, plane, radio, wtc, internet, space exploration, trump, pewdiepie, large hadron collider, my little pony, aids and iPhone were yet to happen. Can you just imagine it
Idiot the Eiffel tower was in 1887
The car was invented in 1885
CombraStudios bitch I can remember a word without the iPhone
you forgot pornhub !
How old are you 10? Everyone 25 and up should remember a world with out smart phones
When you're singing in a stage then you saw a hilarious man:
Better than anything released by drake.
this is nothing like drake btw nice username
kinda like what flo rida did with florida
of course it's nothing like drake. It would be terrible to put johnson so low...
Ikr
Nick Drake?
i cant stop listening i love this song i start singing along to that's how much i love it. LOL
I wonder how people find music from years and years ago even decades and also how they record them
I would really love to meet this man! It makes me very sad all The treatment that he and his family Had faced back then.
0:33 Me at a funeral when I finally get a joke that I was told 2 weeks ago.
Good one mate
This guy sounds so happy 🥺
DECEMBER 2015 STILL LISTENING TO THIS SHIT
+TrizNation heh
Feb 2024 and still listening 😂
When this was recorded there were still people around who were born in the 1700s
i love this
The only man in the history of the world who can laugh musically