These two recording pioneers waxed dozens of Vaudeville sketches together during the 1900s, making records for every major label at the time, and this example was performed at Victor's studios on the 19th of April in 1906. It preceded
the Edison cylinder version by a few months (see the UCSB Special Collection
for that version). A sequal with the same characters, "Burying the Hatchet", was recorded nearly a year later and can be found in my archives. The innocent corny charm that radiates from these characters overshadows the use of racial
stereotyping which was, let's face it, firmly entrenched in popular entertainment back then. The record itself had not been treated too well and needed some special help from another type of reproducer, one that actually held a steel needle,
and that sample was further processed with noise reduction to make for a more palatable presentation.
