{"id":61,"date":"2013-01-28T07:36:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2019-04-12T21:16:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T04:16:20","slug":"bert-williams-and-george-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Bert Williams &amp; George Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"black composer1\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer1-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer1-116x150.jpg 116w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-composer1.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In October 1901 Bert Williams and George Walker were black entertainers, undoubtedly the most famous to both black and white audiences, of the late 19th and early 20th centuries made the first of their 15 recordings (both as soloists and a duo) for the Victor Talking Machine Company. \u00a0Along with comic George W. Johnson, The Dinwiddie Colored Quartette, and a few other persons, they were the only black recording artists to be advertised by a national company until the Fisk University Jubilee Singers recorded for Victor in 1909.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-313 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg\" alt=\"dropout contact\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-1024x212.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-250x52.jpeg 250w, http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[bigContact form=on phones=on emails=on hours=on map=on]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-acheivements","category-featured","category-living-legends","wpcat-3-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}