Gold Dust Twins Rag by Nat Johnson (1913)

Описание: Original listing and sheet music here: https://musescore.com/user/36482158/s...
From Wikipedia:
"Gold Dust washing powder was an all-purpose cleaning agent first introduced in the late 1880s by the Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank Soap Company based in New York City...The Gold Dust Twins, 'Goldie' and 'Dustie', were the 'faces' of the Fairbank's Gold Dust washing powder product lines. The original (circa 1892) version of the twins was a drawing of two young black children cheerfully cleaning up together in a washtub...By the 1903 launch of a national advertising campaign, renderings of the twins had been transformed into a cartoonish pair of caricature, bald, black children of unspecified gender shown wearing tutus that sported the words "Gold" and "Dust" on them...They became an easily recognizable trademark found in many, if not most, U.S. homes during the first half of the twentieth century...The products (along with Goldie and Dustie) were phased out by the mid-1950s, as national sensibilities regarding race and racial stereotypes embodied in the Twins characters began to change."

Written as a sort of rag-jingle for a detergent powder, it's actually quite a good rag. Nat Johnson wrote good rags, and I'm presenting all four of them which are available in print, this being the third one. Published by Forster Music in Chicago in 1913.

Original score source was from the Charles Templeton Sheet Music Collection at Mississippi State University at this link:
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/...
This is a reproduction of the original score. The original contains many errors, most of them having to do with missing accidentals, all of which I have endeavored to fix up.

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