Negro Laughing Song - George W. Johnson - 1901 Columbia Record take 12 video free download

Here is former slave and the first African American to sing on Record, Mr. George W. Johnson singing his famous Negro Laughing Song from take 12 of a recording master originally recorded in 1901 on Columbia. Johnson was originally discovered singing and whistling on a Street Corner in 1890, and recorded this Laughing song for the very first time that year. Back in those days the Recording Companies did not have the ability to stamp out numerous copies of songs from a single master, so these early artists like Johnson had to sing these songs over and over and over again to produce multiple copies to be sold !!