'If I only had a dollah of my own', 1900. Creator: Unknown. # 2949118

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'If I only had a dollah of my own', 1900. 'Words and music by Bogert & O'Brien; Introduced with Great Success by Them in Primrose & Dockstader's Minstrels'. From a collection of sheet music, some examples of which depict African Americans in a derogatory way. Other examples are songs by white musicians purporting to be black.

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Whitney-Warner Pub. Co.: American: Publisher
Lawrence Bogert: American: Composer, lyricist, songwriter
J. Del Vecho: : Arranger, musician
Lew Dockstader: American: Singer, comedian, vaudeville star, blackface minstrel show performer
George Primrose: American, Canadian: minstrel performer
O'Brien: American: Composer