Joe Darcey

American songwriter, singer, and comic. Born 1886 in Ireland Died August 1963 (age of 77) in USA. He was a popular vaudeville comic and singer in the 1920s, and a succesful songwriter. His family moved to New York in his youth. He dropped his last name when he began performing. During the mid-1920s he was billed as "America's Blackface Songster" and travelled the world.