Primary Source Spotlight: Henry Creamer & Turner Layton

Song recordings

• After you’ve gone
• Childhood days
• Dear old Southland
• Everybody’s crazy ’bout the doggone blues, but I’m happy
• Goodbye Alexander, goodbye honey boy
• If you’ll come back
• I’m waiting for you, ‘Liza Jane
• I’ve got the finest man
• Jubilee blues
• Oh! Frenchy!
• Strut Miss Lizzie
• Sweet Emalina, my gal
• Sweet mamma (Papa’s getting mad)
• Sweet ‘n’ pretty
• That’s the doctor, Bill
• Way down yonder in New Orleans
• When the shadows softly come and go
• Whoa, Tillie, take your time!
• Why should I weep about one sweetie

Sheet music

• Come along
• Goodbye Alexander, goodbye honey boy notated
• Goodbye Alexander, goodbye honey boy published
• I got a letter from my Alexand
• I’ve got the finest man
• Maori
• Mother, darling!

Historical newspaper coverage

• Henry Creamer
• Turner Layton
• Negro Players 1913
• Strut Miss Lizzie 1922

Blog posts & articles

• The Curious Case of Henry Creamer, or A Mammy, a Mule, and a Moon In The Muse February 18, 2020
• The Painful Birth of Jazz and the Blues Folklife Today February 24, 2017
• Love Songs at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Folklife Today February 14, 2014
• African American Song