found: His Under the bamboo tree, 1930:t.p. (Bob Cole)
found: New Grove dict. of Amer. mus.(Cole, Bob (Robert Allen); b. 7-1-1863, Athens, Ga.; d. 8-2-11, New York, N.Y.; lyricist, composer, vaudeville entertainer)
found: Southern, E. The music of Black Americans, 3rd ed.:index (Cole, Robert "Bob") p. 303 (Bob Cole (1868-1911))
found: Int. dict. of Black composers, 1999(Cole, Robert Allen ("Bob"); b. July 1, 1868, Athens, Ga., d. Aug. 2, 1911, Catskills, N.Y.)
found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed June 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cole, Bob; Robert Allen Cole Jr.; songwriter, composer, stage / screen actor, theatrical producer / director; born 01 July, 1868 in Athens, Georgia, United States; studied at Atlanta University, left before graduating; was song-and-dance actor and stage manager for original Creole Show company, Chicago (1890), wrote several songs for the show; actor for the original company of Black Patti's Troubadours (1896-1897); co-author, composer, director of musical farce At Jolly Coon-ey Island; co-wrote the narrative musical show A Trip to Coontown (1897-1899); songwriter at Joseph W. Stern and Company (1899), wrote songs for more than twenty Broadway shows (1900-1904); co- wrote, produced, and starred in first all-black show The Shoo-Fly Regiment (1906), toured first, then came to Broadway (1907); co-wrote second show The Red Moon (1908), played in New York City (1909); performed in vaudevilles (1910); died 02 August, 1911 near Catskill, New York, United States)
