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|f_annotation='''DORA DEAN'''. American, Country Rag (cut time). F Major ('A' part) & D Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'BB'. This 'raggy' melody was composed by the great African-American entertainer and comedian Bert Williams (1874-1922) and published in 1896 ("Oh have you seen Miss Dora Dean, She's the sweetest gal you ever seen"). The song was composed in honor of vaudeville entertainer named Dora (Babbage) Dean, an African-American woman who possessed great style, poise and personality. Along with her partner, Charles Johnson, she is credited with helping to popularize the Cakewalk dance. Mark Wilson remarks that it was a popular piano piece around the turn of the 20th century; widely popular at the time, it was coined “The Greatest Coon Song Ever Written”.
|f_annotation='''DORA DEAN'''. American, Country Rag (cut time). F Major ('A' part) & D Minor ('B' part). Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB'BB'. This 'raggy' melody was composed by the great African-American entertainer and comedian Bert Williams (1874-1922) and published in 1896 ("Oh have you seen Miss Dora Dean, She's the sweetest gal you ever seen"). Mark Wilson remarks that it was a popular piano piece around the turn of the 20th century; widely popular at the time, it was coined “The Greatest Coon Song Ever Written”.  The song was composed in honor of vaudeville entertainer named Dora (Babbage) Dean, an African-American woman who possessed great style, poise and personality, and flaunted in front of white crowds in ways that were unheard of by an African American performer. Along with her partner and husband, Charles Johnson, she is credited with helping to popularize the Cakewalk dance. Their song-and-dance act took them abroad for months on end, touring Europe and even Australia. They performed in Hungary and Russia, even for England’s King Edward VII.
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''Say, have you seen Miss Dora Dean?''<br>
''Say, have you seen Miss Dora Dean?''<br>
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