The Original Charleston. Musique de Cecil Mack et Jimmy Johnson dansé par Joséphine Baker dans l'Hyper-Revue des Folies Bergère "La Folie du Jour" ...
Paris: Editions Francis Salabert. [1926]. First Edition thus.
Quarto. Original bifolium sheet music with pictorial covers, letterpress recto only. Light wear around the edges, diagonal crease to left corner, else very good condition. 10.5 x 13.75 inches (27 x 35 cm). Uncommon; only 3 copies listed by Worldcat (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Biblioteca Comunale di Trento, Zentralbibliothek Zurich).
In 1926 Baker left the Revue Negre to join the Folies Bergère and her success became a sensation. The Charleston formed the finale of a frenetic show, the critic André Rouverge writing in the Mercure de France that “the Charleston, as danced à la Baker, fairly boils over with diabolic intensity”. This score features a blissful dancing La Baker by R. de Valerio on the cover.
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