Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider

Eddie Leonard (1870-1941); Eddie Munson (dates unknown)

Eddie Leonard, “The Last Of The Great Minstrels”, performed in blackface long after the time when others had stopped doing so. Her even ran the Minstrel Bar And Grill in the 30s. “Ida” launched his career, selling a million copies the first year.
Besides overstaying the minstrel tradition, he was well known for staying on stage too long, taking endless encores and doing endless “farewell” tours. Journalist Jack Lait called him, “the Chinese philosopher: On Too Long, Bow Too Long.” (I know this is in poor taste, but it does evoke the period.)
As for Eddie Munson, even with the help of a Dave McMullin, a Rounder fan (fan of my first commercial group, the Holy Modal Rounders) who’s a librarian at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center, I could find nothing about him—except that, allegedly, he died young.