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Sheet music:Black Bottom

1926

The Strong National Museum of Play

The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester , United States

Since the middle of the 19th century, Americans purchased pianos in increasing numbers. Families and friends gathered around the piano for evenings of musical fun. Piano players needed sheet music to learn the latest songs and publishers quickly printed everyone's favorite pieces, first in black and white and later with detailed chromolithographed color covers. The advent of radio and even television simply increased public awareness of hit songs, and the production of sheet music still grew. Eventually, use of sheet music lessened along with the popularity of home pianos in the middle and later 20th century. Radio, phonographs, and personal listening devices began to replace the piano in the parlor. The song "Black Bottom" was performed in the Eighth Annual Edition of George White's Scandals, a series of comedy Broadway revues.

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  • Title: Sheet music:Black Bottom
  • Date Created: 1926
  • Location: New York, NY
  • Subject Keywords: music, Harlequin
  • Type: Entertainment and Music
  • Medium: printed paper
  • Object ID: 111.5142
  • Credit Line: Gift of Rita P. Kuder
The Strong National Museum of Play

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