Joseph J. Sullivan (vaudeville)

Joseph J. Sullivan was a blackface comedian and acrobat in New York. He composed the song Where Did You Get That Hat? and first performed it in 1888. It was a great success and he performed it many times thereafter.^[1][2]

Joe J. Sullivan

References

1. Jack Burton, Larry Freeman (1962), The blue book of Tin Pan Alley, vol. 1, Century House, p. 13
2. Theodore Raph (1986), "Where Did You Get That Hat", The American song treasury, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-486-25222-3

External links

• Media related to Joseph J. Sullivan (vaudeville) at Wikimedia Commons