I was pleasantly surprised and please to see that people like John A.
Tuttle, Nancy Fratti, Jim Katz, Don Teach and I all shared the same
view, without even knowing what the other one had posted.

History is what it was back then.  We can't say it did not happen by
making it disappear.  This was Vaudeville, and these skits and songs
are a part of that history.

Most (non-collector) people do not even know who Bill Murray is and 
yet with these wonderful music machines that have survived for 100
years, one can still hear him singing as well as others Vaudevillians.

Should we also "burn" any film that Al Jolson or Eddie Cantor did?
Everyone has the right to disagree or not listen to certain songs but
please do not destroy them.

Just a little background on me -- I am now living in the building that
was built by the National Vaudeville Artists (NVA).  They took care of
their own.  It was especially built to help "cure" NVA Members with
tuberculosis.  It later became the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, which
closed in the mid 1970s.  This building could have been torn down
because no one wanted it but, in the late 1990s, someone saw the beauty
in it and renovated it and is now a retirement home.  On the outside, 
it looks as original as it did in 1928.

Preserve History -- once destroyed, you can never get it back and it
will be lost forever.

In closing, do you realize how many songs, skits and silent movies that
we will never hear or see because they no longer exist.

Leslie Hoffman