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Sheet music cover for "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" by Shelton Brooks, featuring illustrated dancing couples in formal attire against a blue background, bordered in orange and black squares, with an inset photo of Sophie Tucker.
Sheet music cover for "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" featuring caricatured dancing couples against an orange sunburst background, with an inset photo portrait of a woman in a feathered hat; credited to Shelton Brooks.

The Darktown Strutters’ Ball

Vaudeville, Ragtime

Title

The Darktown Strutters’ Ball

Date

May 9, 1917

Performer

Six Brown Brothers

Location

Camden, New Jersey

Other versions

Original Dixieland Jazz Band (May 31, 1917)
Brunswick Military Band (October, 1917)
Arthur Collins (October, 1917)
Collins and Harlan (December 21, 1917)
Premier Quartet (January 9, 1918)
Jaudas' Society Orchestra (February 28, 1918)
Wilbur Sweatman's Original Jazz Band (May 28, 1918)
Brown and Terry Jazzola Boys (June 1921)

Type

Vaudeville, Ragtime