Lew Dockstader (born George Alfred Clapp; August 7, 1856 – October 26, 1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface...

Dockstader is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Dan Dockstader (born 1958), American politician Lew Dockstader (1856–1924), American...

minstrel performer George Washington Dixon, 1820s-1830s stage performer Lew Dockstader, 1870s-1900s minstrel performer Roma Downey in an episode of the television...

sidewalks of New Brunswick, N.J. — Alfred E. Smith to Lew Dockstader in December 1923 on Dockstader's fall at what is now the State Theater. New Brunswick...

United States, but especially in the American South. He performed with Lew Dockstader, George Primrose, Al G. Field, and for the Gus Hill and George Evans...

Hall of Fame composer Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), film and stage actor Lew Dockstader (1856–1924), vaudeville comedian. Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832–1904)...

of minstrel performers of the song inset. The song was performed by Lew Dockstader. Arthur Collins and Joe Natus recorded a rendition of the song on Edison...

Sedalia, Missouri. In his late teens, he performed in Lew Dockstader's minstrel troupe, the Lew Dockstader Minstrels. At this same time, he would write three...

name: Al Jolson. Jolson receives a job offer from minstrel-show master Lew Dockstader, and Martin releases Jolson. Al succeeds with the minstrel troupe and...

Successful Song Hit of 1901" with insert photo of minstrel show star Lew Dockstader in blackface Stylistic origins Minstrel show Cultural origins c. 1840s...

old man." The song was introduced and recorded by blackface performer Lew Dockstader. The song was sufficiently popular that it inspired a "sequel" titled...

Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946) - Joe Parelli The Jolson Story (1946) - Lew Dockstader New Orleans (1947) - Colonel McArdle Living in a Big Way (1947) - Attorney...

worked with Lew Dockstader. He was born in 1869 in Port Dickinson, New York. He joined a minstrel show and later appeared with Lew Dockstader for a few...

singing caught the attention of Lew Dockstader, the producer and star of Dockstader's Minstrels. Jolson accepted Dockstader's offer and became a blackface...

music singer and composer Lew Dietz (1907–1997), American writer Lew Dockstader (1856–1924), American singer and comedian Lew Douglas (1912–1997), American...

A sheet music cover for a coon song which is titled "Coon, Coon, Coon" with a photograph of minstrel show star Lew Dockstader in blackface...

in vaudeville, until Primrose formed a new working partnership with Lew Dockstader. His first wife, Emily Catlin, died in Chicago, Illinois in 1903. He...

 378 Laurie 1953, p. 198 Slide 1994, pp. 128–9 Senelick, Laurence, "Lew Dockstader", in Banham 1995, p. 298 Laurie 1953, p. 150 Polzine, Bobby (April 7...

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vaudeville comedians. He wrote material for numerous performers, including Lew Dockstader and Weber and Fields. Hoffman also had success as a writer of Broadway...

Still, traditional blackface entertainers disliked the new approach. Lew Dockstader remarked that Primrose and West had refined all the fun out of it. Minstrelsy...

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performers for the next few years, culminating in their joining of the Lew Dockstader minstrel group in 1904. The Leighton Brothers were invited to perform...

musical career after leaving the United States Army in 1905, joining Lew Dockstader's minstrels in Rochester, New York. He began recording for Edison Records...

early works. Among them were Nat M. Wills, Julian Rose, Belle Baker, Lew Dockstader, James Barton and Joe Welch. A founding member of ASCAP in 1914. In...

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with the Eureka Minstrels as one half of a song and dance duo with Lew Dockstader. He would go on to team up at one time or another with players Joe Sparks...

decades. On May 20, 1904 McCluskey came upon a vaudeville performer named Lew Dockstader who, on the streets of New York, was making a Kinetoscope film with...

Skelly became a veteran of medicine shows, musical comedy, burlesque, Lew Dockstader's minstrels and opera. He joined the A.M. Zinn musical comedy company...

in Lew Dockstader's Great Minstrel Production "Lorraine" (1905), Bert A. Williams (music), Earle C. Jones (words), featurred in Lew Dockstader's Great...