
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920, he was the first African American to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. He was appointed under President Theodore Roosevelt as US consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua for most of the period from 1906 to 1913. In 1934 he was the first African-American professor to be hired at New York University. Later in life, he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University, a historically black university. |
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Birth and Death Data: Born June 17th, 1871 (Jacksonville), Died June 26th, 1938 (Wiscasset)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1901 - 1941
Roles Represented in DAHR: lyricist
Recordings (Results 1-25 of 78 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]585 | 7-in. | 1/5/1901 | Why don't the band play? | S. H. Dudley | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]585 | 10-in. | 5/16/1902 | Why don't the band play? | S. H. Dudley | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix C-]585 | 12-in. | 5/16/1902 | Why don't the band play? | S. H. Dudley | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]991 | 7-in. | 10/11/1901 | In my castle on the River Nile | Bert Williams | Male vocal solo, with piano | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]991 | 10-in. | 10/11/1901 | In my castle on the River Nile | Bert Williams | Male vocal solo, with piano | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]994 | 7-in. | 10/11/1901 | When it's all going out and nothing coming in | Bert Williams | Male vocal solo, with piano | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]994 | 10-in. | 10/11/1901 | All going out and nothing coming in | Bert Williams | Male vocal solo, with piano | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1099 | 7-in. | 11/20/1901 | Come out, Dinah, on the green | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1099 | 10-in. | 11/20/1901 | Come out, Dinah, on the green | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1296 | 7-in. | 3/5/1902 | Tell me, dusky maiden | Arthur Collins ; Joseph Natus | Male vocal duet | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1296 | 10-in. | 3/5/1902 | Tell me dusky maiden | Arthur Collins ; Joseph Natus | Male vocal duet | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1327 | 7-in. | 3/14/1902 | Oh! Didn't he ramble! | Dan W. Quinn | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1327 | 10-in. | 3/14/1902 | Oh! Didn't he ramble! | Dan W. Quinn | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1388 | 7-in. | 5/16/1902 | Nobody's looking but the owl and moon | S. H. Dudley | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1388 | 10-in. | 5/16/1902 | Nobody's looking but the owl and moon | S. H. Dudley | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix C-]1388 | 12-in. | 5/16/1902 | Nobody's looking but the owl and moon | S. H. Dudley | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1633 | 7-in. | 9/18/1902 | Under the bamboo tree | Arthur Collins | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1633 | 10-in. | 9/18/1902 | Under the bamboo tree | Arthur Collins | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1805 | 7-in. | 11/26/1902 | Under the bamboo tree | S. H. Dudley | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1805 | 10-in. | 11/26/1902 | Under the bamboo tree | S. H. Dudley | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1894 | 7-in. | 1/14/1903 | When it's all goin' out and nothin' comin' in | Silas Leachman | Male vocal solo, with piano | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1894 | 10-in. | 1/14/1903 | All goin' out and nothin' comin' in | Silas Leachman | Male vocal solo, with piano | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1949 | 10-in. | 2/9/1903 | Tell me dusky maiden | S. H. Dudley ; Harry Macdonough | Male vocal duet, with piano | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix A-]1993 | 7-in. | 2/27/1903 | Under the bamboo tree | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo | lyricist | |
Victor | [Pre-matrix B-]1993 | 10-in. | 2/27/1903 | Under the bamboo tree | Harry Macdonough | Male vocal solo | lyricist |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Johnson, James Weldon," accessed March 4, 2021, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102599.
Johnson, James Weldon. (2021). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved March 4, 2021, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102599.
"Johnson, James Weldon." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2021. Web. 4 March 2021.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79133137
Wikidata: James Weldon Johnson - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q478450
VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/9866919/
MusicBrainz: Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/01dcd57c-89de-4dda-b567-699d804fb501
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