A relatively late example of the sort of song that made Collins and Harlan famous as a performing and recording duo, this comes from a session at Edison Labs in July of 1913. The song was written by Lewis F. Muir and L. Wolfe
Gilbert (the same pair that wrote the evergreen "Waiting For the Robert E. Lee" as well as the more obscure "Moochin' Along" and "We've Got a Parrot in our House"). The structural similarities to the "Robert E. Lee" song are
everywhere, only the cause of the celebration is different from that song to this, and both Arthur and Byron sell the song like the solid professionals they always were. Sure, this plays on the stereotypes of black people that
were commonly held back then, but this was a successful form of entertainment at that time and place and should be heard with that in mind. The 4-minute cylinder from which this was sampled was played hard in its day, and there
was some surface noise gradually intruding on the music: while this is not perfectly cleaned up, it is an improvement and will do until I find a cleaner copy.
