Real Ragtime: Disc Recordings from Its Heyday
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Archeophone Records
Soundtracks:
- Florida Rag (Vess L. Ossman)
- When Uncle Joe Plays a Rag on His Old Banjo (Arthur Collins)
- Booster Fox Trot (Victor Military Band)
- Berkeley March (Cullen and Collins)
- Hu-la Hu-la Cake Walk (Sousa?s Band)
- Dill Pickles Rag (Chris Chapman)
- Cakewalk (John J. Kimmel)
- Everybody Rag with Me (American Quartet)
- Creole Belles (Columbia Orchestra)
- By the Sycamore Tree Medley (Ossman and Hunter)
- The International Rag (Collins and Harlan)
- Silver Heels (Fred Van Eps)
- Canhanibalmo Rag (Arthur Pryor?s Band)
- A Coon Band Contest (Vess L. Ossman)
- You?re Talking Rag-Time (Arthur Collins)
- Sugar Plum (Samuel Siegel and Roy Butin)
- Whipped Cream (Fred Van Eps)
- Deiro Rag (Guido Deiro)
- Old Folks Rag (Van Eps Trio)
- Ragged William (Metropolitan Orchestra)
- Ragtime Temple Bells (Billy Murray)
- Russian Rag (Earl Fuller?s Rector Novelty Orchestra)
- Hungarian Rag (Pietro Deiro)
- Wild Cherry Rag (Eddie Morton)
- The King of Rags (Arthur Pryor?s Band)
- The Darkie?s Awakening (Vess L. Ossman)
- Cohan?s ?Rag Babe? (Arthur Collins)
- Some Baby (Van Eps Banjo Orchestra)
- Ruff Johnson?s Harmony Band (?Gene Greene)
Music reviews of Real Ragtime: Disc Recordings from Its Heyday
Music Review: Excellent Ragtime Collection
Rating: 5 Stars
When I buy a collection of old music like this, I do so hoping to find perhaps three or four tunes that are worth ripping to my computer and listening to over and over again. With this CD, I ripped at least 90% of the cuts, they're that good. Of course, the TYPE of music helps. Just like there is no really BAD baroque music, there is no really BAD ragtime. But when you find a CD of old music that is at least 90% first-rate, you have a winner.
Another great feature of this collection is that it offers plenty of ragtime banjos, accordions, and xylophones, but no piano solos and no Scott Joplin. Pianos are fine and Joplin is terrific, but as this CD demonstrates, ragtime in the early years was not exclusively piano music, and Joplin was not the only superb ragtime composer out there.
Description of Real Ragtime: Disc Recordings from Its Heyday
From the introduction: This CD is the second edition of Archeophone's very first release, which established our mission of providing detailed, scholarly, and unabashed reissues of the early recording industry's product in attractive and generous packages. With this newly remastered, freshly annotated edition, we are bringing our first and favorite release to the standards that you expect from the leader in acoustic-era reissues. To some music fans, the title of Real Ragtime sounded like a battle cry of authenticity, but the aim of the collection was and remains a simple one, grounded in the history of record buying a century ago: to show that the ragtime consumers were likely to find on records for more than 20 years was not the kind of ragtime we think of today. They were more likely to find banjos and brass bands playing ragtime than pianos, and their collections of disc recordings almost certainly had numerous examples of watered-down ragtime-the Tin Pan Alley knock-offs that really had no ragtime but called themselves "rags" just for the added marketability such a designation would bring. Ragtime was as much about a musical mood, a general feeling in the air, as it was about what scholars would identify as real ragtime. It was a trope that defined the early recording industry and pervaded the entire culture for a generation. These are the recordings people listened to, whether they were really ragtime or not-and they were thought of, no doubt, as the genuine item.General CDs
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