Rachel, I really enjoyed your two strains of "Maple Leaf Rag" and I'm very interested in recordings made by the newgroup members. It would be great if you...
That's absolutely fascinating! Thanks a lot to Bob Pinsker and Andrew Barrett for their precious information! I couldn't imagine that the LoC could have...
... Hi Luigi, I would have preferred to use a piano myself, but the nearest one I have access to is off in a neighboring building. I'd have to make a tape ...
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Dear Ragtimers, I've just uploaded another recording by an original ragtime pianist: Pearl Reno (stage name for Mrs. Byron Coffin), who was a Ragtime pianist...
"The Irish American Rag" seems to be a combination of two pieces. It has already been mentioned that the last half is the "The Entertainer's Rag". The first...
So I gets asked this week, I does, about the lyrics for that piece that Max has done up, he did, and others like Eubie and all, about that KC thing. Actually,...
Hi, all! Of course, you mean lyrics in addition to the stub printed on Blind Boone's Rag Medley No. II (Strains from Flat Branch): Carrie's gone to Kan-sas...
... I knew from that. We all do. That is the verse. There is also a chorus to the piece, and that verse can't be all that there is to it. Which is why I'm...
Hi all: I am now researching cakewalks in the ragtime era, a topic I had only marginal knowledge of. I am learning a lot and have compiled a list of over 100...
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Jeffrey Hartmann is absolutely right! The first two strains of the "Irish American Rag" are identical to "At the Mississippi Cabaret"! I both checked the score...
Dear members, I've just uploaded a recording by Glover Compton (c.1884-1964), a ragtime pianist who formed a piano team with Tony Jackson at the beginning of...
... Hi, Stalling was amazing--a virtual musical archives. In a cartoon scene involving a bumblebee, he plays a song from 1906 called "My Funny Little ...
Hi all: The Cuban Cake Walk I mention below is obviously a tango-related piece and not a cake walk (despite its title). Next time I will play a piece before...
Dear Ted, I found this "Cuban Cake Walk" very interesting and apart from the habanera bass, it's really a cakewalk. Thanks a lot for your link! If you put a...
Greetings! I am a great fan of Joe "Fingers" Carr (Lou Busch) and we live close to Camarillo, CA, where he died in a car accident. Does anyone know if he was...
Hi John. That's one piece of information I had trouble gaining access to when doing Lou's biography. I would think he would have been buried somewhere in...
... Well, Luigi, I am not at all sure that Bob could read a piano score, let alone write it, notwithstanding that he had an enormous collection of sheet music....
... Bob was a fine reader. He was not quite a sight-reading level, but he did fine. When I presented him with my re-write of Calliope Rag in a true James Scott...
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Hey, folks. Just a reminder that the weekly LIVE broadcast is NOW! So far, turnout is really low. If you get this message in time, come join us in the chat...
In her introduction to the recording, Mrs. Coffin says that the piece she is playing is part of the Irish American Rag and something else that she couldn't...
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Thanks Todd, I missed that particular phrase by Mrs Coffin that really explains it all... Interestingly, parts of "The Entertainer's Rag" can be also found in ...
I just happen to stumble on some info about James Blyler, the composer of the Irish American Rag. It turns out that he hooked up with a young singer Jane...
Hi all At some point in the next couple of days somebody will inevitably note that there is a copy of the alternate Holy Grail of Joplin pieces (in terms of...
My roommate, a serious rock 'n' roll fan, subscribes to Rolling Stone magazine. Over lunch today, I was browsing through the most recent issue (#998) and...
