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"Old Black Joe" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1860. Ken Emerson, author of the book Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular Culture (1998), indicates that Foster's fictional Joe was inspired by a servant in the home of Foster's father-in-law, Dr. McDowell of Pittsburgh. The song is not written in dialect.

Adaptations
• Thomas Dixon, Jr.'s one-act play Old Black Joe was produced in New York in 1912. • The first line of the Chorus lyrics is sung by Bugs Bunny in the 1953 Looney Tunes cartoon "Southern Fried Rabbit". • Jerry Lee Lewis version with Gene Lowery Singers released in 1960. • In a 1973 episode of the TV sitcom Maude the character of Walter Findlay repeatedly plays the song on an electric organ. • In a 2000 episode of the TV sitcom Strangers with Candy a student sings and plays acoustic guitar. Season 2, Episode 6, "Hit and Run". • In the 1991 Palme d'Or winner Barton Fink, the character of W. P. Mayhew drunkenly performs Foster's song. • In the 2021 TV series Them, this song is sung in the pilot episode by multiple characters, and again in the fifth episode. • The tune was used for the introduction of part of Phillip Sparke's "Dundonnell", a movement from his work "Hymn of the Highlands." ==References==
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