| has gloss | eng: "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon" was a 1900 coon song written by Will A. Heelan and J. Fred Helf that was popular in the U.S. and Britain. The song followed the previous success of "All Coons Look Alike to Me", written in 1896 by Ernest Hogan. H.L. Mencken cites it as being one of the three coon songs which "firmly established the term coon in the American vocabulary". The song was promoted as one of the greatest musical hits of the day by A.M. Rothschild and Company in 1901. New Yorks Siegel Cooper Company referred to it as one of the "hits of the day" in April a year later. The next month it was sung during "Music on the Piers" in New York, being the first song played at the Metropolitan Avenue pier. In his book The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen, Nick Clooney refers to the song as part of the "hit parade" of popular music one could use to measure the temper of the times when The Birth of a Nation premiered in 1915. |
