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James Allen Bland was an African-American composer, singer, and songwriter. He was born in Flushing, New York, and was one of the most prolific African-American songwriters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He wrote over 600 songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" and "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers". He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Bland was born to a family of free African-Americans. He was educated at the Flushing Institute and the New York Institute for the Education of the Colored Youth. He began his career as a minstrel performer, and later became a vaudeville singer and songwriter. He wrote songs for Broadway shows and Tin Pan Alley publishers. Bland's most famous song, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", was written in 1878 and became the official state song of Virginia in 1940. He also wrote "In the Evening by the Moonlight", "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers", and "In the Morning by the Bright Light". Bland died in 1911 in New York City. He was 57 years old.

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Occupation soundtrack
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 22 October, 1854
Birthday 22 October
Birthplace Flushing [now in Queens, New York City], New York, USA
Date of death 5 May, 1911
Died Place Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality United States

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1939

He was buried in an unmarked grave but in 1939 the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) provided a headstone at the grave site to commemorate his life.

1911

He died alone in Philadelphia on May 5, 1911, a victim of tuberculosis.

1901

In 1901 he returned penniless to Washington, D. C. , and as the popularity of minstrel shows waned, Bland could not find work.

1881

In 1881, he moved to London, spending the next twenty years there before returning to the United States. While in London, he performed without blackface and gave command performances for Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales. Bland was making $10,000 a year at one point but recklessly spent his money.

1879

Other songs composed by Bland were In the Morning in the Bright Light (1879), In the Evening by the Moonlight (1879), and his second most famous song, Oh! Dem Golden Slippers (1879), known today mostly because it was used in an often-aired Golden Grahams cereal television commercial in the 1970's.

1878

James Bland was an African-American musician and composer who wrote many songs about the American South for use in minstrel shows. His most famous was Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (1878), which became the official State Song of Virginia, being retired in 1997 due to racial controversies.

1870

, but soon pursued music, inspired by the music of some of the workers on the Howard campus, and joined the all-black Georgia Minstrels in the late 1870's. He soon married fellow Howard student and Virginia native Mamie Friend, and was inspired to write Carry Me Back to Old Virginny after hearing her speak of her homesickness while away at college.

1854

Bland was born in Flushing, New York on October 22, 1854, one of eight children to educated free parents. His father bought him an eight-dollar banjo and Bland was soon performing professionally by his early teens. He attended Howard University in Washington, D. C.

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