A Hot Time in the Old Town. As Sung by Josephine Sabel

New York: Willis Woodward & Co, 1896. Sheet music. 4to; pictorial coated thick-paper wrappers; 6pp (including covers). Mild creasing and external soil; partial split at folded margin; Very Good. Owner's name in ink at upper front cover ("Lora Mae Powell").

Racist dialect song, and an early hit for the French-born American vaudeville star Josephine Sabel, popular in this period for her humorous renditions of so-called "coon songs" such as this one. Sabel's vignette portrait is inset on the front cover, surrounded by plantation scenes.