Joseph J. Sullivan (vaudeville)

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Joe J. Sullivan as depicted on an 1893 songsheet. Jos. J. Sullivan - Little Paddy Mooney.jpg
Joe J. Sullivan as depicted on an 1893 songsheet.
Joe J. Sullivan in 1922. Joe J. Sullivan, vaudeville comedian.jpg
Joe J. Sullivan in 1922.

Joseph J. Sullivan was a blackface comedian and acrobat in New York. He is best known for composing the vaudeville song Where Did You Get That Hat? which he first performed in 1888. It was a great success and he performed it many times thereafter. [1] [2] His other song compositions include Little Paddy Rooney in 1893.

Little else is known about his life, but in July 1922 a monthly New York theatre magazine described how he had recently 'brought back the "flannel-mouthed" Irish comedians when he regaled vaudeville patrons with Where Did You Get That Hat?'. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Jack Burton, Larry Freeman (1962), The blue book of Tin Pan Alley, vol. 1, Century House, p. 13
  2. ↑ Theodore Raph (1986), "Where Did You Get That Hat", The American song treasury, p. 218, ISBN   978-0-486-25222-3
  3. ↑ "Vaudeville Applauds Stars Of Yesterday", Theatre Magazine, 36 (1), New York: Theatre Magazine Company: 27, July 1922


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