Is it just me or do, for no apparent reason, certain strains Grandpa's Spells Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' MortonĬhicago Breakdown is also known as Stratford Hunch Superman (Elite Syncopations) Scott JoplinĪlligator Crawl Thomas Wright 'Fats' WallerĬhicago Breakdown Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton In A Mist Leon Bismarck 'Bix' Beiderbecke Movie Star (Kansas City Stomps) Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton I think that 'Rags and all that Jazz' was the only album of the Swingle If you mean their album 'Rags and all that Jazz' > everyone had a crack at the tune during the 1970s. > don't have it handy, but it seems like it would be a safe bet since almost I don't know if the Entertainer was on the album as I > The Singing Swingles DID do a vocal version of the some rags and stride pieces It's simply music to dance to, or to kick back and listen There isn't an incredible lot of ragtime that lends itself to Of the 1902 Ragtime Dance) because they just don't seem to fit. I also do it with 'Palm Leaf,' andĪnyway, I usually despise the ragtime lyrics (with the notable exception Where impulsively I want to sing, 'Don't stop cooking, 'cause it feelsĪll-right.' WHAT DOES IT MEAN AND WHY DO I WANT TO DO IT?īy no means is, 'Magnetic Rag' alone. Of ragtime just make words pop into your head that might not make sense?įor example, I don't know why, but there's a part of 'Magnetic Rag' that > mapleleafrag mapleleafrag mapleleafrag mapleleafrag > This is the Maple Leaf - Rag - is the Maple Leaf - Rag > Bomp Bomp The MAple Leafrag, The MAple LEAF RAG, Here are the lyrics to the Maple Leaf Rag: To the right source (this News Group) for the information.

I hope this answers your query (perhaps more completely than you had There are indications of a few more specific songs (along with rags),īut they have as yet been actually found in printed or piano-roll form. The Ragtime Dance (Lyrics and Directions by Joplin)

it was originallyĭone as a stage ballet of sorts, or an organized dance number, with Has certainly done a great deal more research on Joplin than nearlyĪs for the Ragtime Dance being 'redone' as a song. MaybeĮd Berlin knows something further on this topic that I have missed. However, I hold out little hope for this one. To this piece other than in a kid's piano primer. I would be interested to see if ANYBODY here could scare up any lyrics Lyrics that I teach people during occasionaly sing-along portions of my Instance in over 70 music sources I have, including Lissauer'sĮncyclopedia of Popular Music, where any lyrics exist.īut, you're in luck in some regard. If lyrics were added, it would have been post-1973. Recorded by Schuller in 1973, and Hamlisch used these arrangements in De Lisle (who also arranged many of Tom Turpin's Rags0. AnĪrrangement of The Entertiner already existed in John Stark's Red Backīook (Fifteen Standard High Class Rags) from around 1910, arranged byĭ.S.

to put it all together,Īnd the selections were mostly Hill's with Hamlisch's concurrence. The former who played Rifkin's record for him and the latter whoĪctually performed some of the pieces, that Hill decided to use Joplin's It was through both the son and a nephew of director George Roy Hill, It made a gradual comeback with its diginity intact. Through Ann Charters (60's), and culminating with Joshua Rifkin (70's), Starting with Wally Rose (40's), continuing So after he died, a lot of his music went into dormancyįor at least three decades. In the forefront, The Entertainer was far from Joplin's best-sellerĭuring the era. Inįact, with some of his other pieces like the Maple Leaf and Pine Apple Sanctioned lyrics written to this tune during Joplin's lifetime. I have, and I believe I can say with some authority that there were no Sorry, but I have looked through all of the enormous wealth of resources

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