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unusual facts about ragtime


Blind Boy Fuller

As a boy he learned to play the guitar and also learned from older singers the field hollers, country rags, and traditional songs and blues popular in poor, rural areas.


A'Lelia Walker

She grew up in the neighborhood where Scott Joplin and other ragtime musicians gathered at Tom Turpin's Rosebud Cafe on St. Louis's Market Street.

Arthur Blake

Blind Blake (birth name Arthur Blake; 1893-1933), US-American blues/ragtime singer and guitarist

Barney Fagan

In the opinion of Sigmund Spaeth, Fagan's compositions were important in the development of ragtime.

Del Wood

Wood gained the title, Queen of the Ragtime Pianists, sometimes shared with junior fellow plunker Jo Ann Castle.

Dick Zimmerman

But it wasn’t until 1973, when the movie The Sting began the revival of ragtime with a musical score by Marvin Hamlisch, which adapted the original rags of Scott Joplin, that Zimmerman turned his attention to performing and recording.

Domino Man

It is one of the few video games that features the ragtime piece, Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin as the game background music.

Dorsey Wright

In 1981, he appeared as a gang member in the film Ragtime, and played Junior Jones in the 1984 film adaptation of John Irving's novel The Hotel New Hampshire.

Folk ragtime

It was later revived, starting in 1947 with the 'rediscovery' of Sanford Brunson Campbell (March 20, 1884 - November 23, 1952) who was one of the most noted folk ragtimers as well as a student of Scott Joplin, and then in the early 1960s by the now foremost authority on Folk Ragtime, Trebor Jay Tichenor (1940- ).

At the center of the revival of folk ragtime has been historian, collector, and composer/pianist Trebor Jay Tichenor.

Harry Gibson

Those two albums include some jazz, blues, ragtime, and rock and roll songs about reefer, nude bathing, hippie communes, strip clubs, male chauvinists, "rocking the 88s", and even about how hip Shirley MacLaine is.

Impossible Ragtime Theater

The Impossible Ragtime Theater was an American theater company founded in 1974 by Ted Story, George Ferencz, Cynthia Crane and Pam Mitchell.

J. Bodewalt Lampe

In 1900, a year after the success of Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag", he published his most successful and enduring song "Creole Belles", a rag or cakewalk that sold more than a million copies in sheet music.

Jerry Winsett

Jerry Winsett (born July 19, 1950) is an actor, writer and singer who has appeared in numerous television shows including Coach, Mr. Belvedere, It’s Garry Shandling's Show and Newhart as well as such films as The Chosen, One Crazy Summer, Ragtime, and Woody Allen’s Radio Days.

Jobs for Youth-Chicago

And music was always a part of the events – with MacArthur “genius” Award winner and JFY graduate, ragtime pianist Reginald Robinson, entertaining the guests on a couple of occasions.

Joe Langworth

From 1990 - 2005, Langworth appeared in a number of major Broadway musicals, including the closing company of the original production of A Chorus Line, the Tony Award-winning production of Ragtime with Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell, and the 2001 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

John William Boone

The John William Boone Heritage Foundation was founded to preserve the history of Blind Boone and to elaborate the important role Missouri played in the development of Ragtime and early Jazz music.

Johnny Maddox

He performed several ragtime piano solos on The Jack Paar Show in March 1955, and this episode also featured Edie Adams.

Jon Marks

He played with Kid Martyn's Ragtime Band at the first two New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals in 1968 and 1969 and at Louis Armstrong's 70th Birthday celebration, "Hello Louis", in 1970 when he was photographed alongside Louis Armstrong and his enormous birthday cake, and whiskey and bourbon fountains.

Josh Clark

Clark has also appeared in several films, including "Faster", (2010), the indie film "I Am I", (2013), the short film "Stranger At The Pentagon", (2013), Fingers (1978), Ragtime (1981), and the Tom Hanks comedy Big (1988).

Katteni-Shiyagare

They are perhaps best known in the US for the opening theme to the Japanese series Kemonozume, "Auvers Blue" as well as the first opening to the anime Gallery Fake, "Ragtime".

Keith Nichols

Nichols also formed the Ragtime Orchestra in the mid-1970s along with Mo Morris, Richard Warner and Paul Nossiter.

Lara Teeter

His regional directing credits include My Fair Lady (Opera Pacific), The Pirates of Penzance (San Bernardino Civic Light Opera and Light Opera Works of Chicago), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Hollywood Cinegrill), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Fullerton Civic Light Opera), Ragtime (Light Opera Works of Chicago), and Candide (Light Opera Works of Chicago).

Lewis F. Muir

Muir composed productively in 1912–1913 and travelled to London with pianist Pete Wendling to play ragtime in the Oxford Theatre.

Lionel Monckton

Monckton was discouraged by Edwardes's death and unwilling to adapt his style of writing to the newly popular syncopated American dance rhythms, ragtime, and other "noisy numbers" that were heard in theatres.

Mark Jacoby

He has achieved fame from his leading roles on Broadway in Show Boat, The Phantom of the Opera and Ragtime, among others.

Pete's Tavern

Pete's Tavern has appeared in numerous films and television programs, including Seinfeld, Ragtime, Endless Love, Law & Order, Nurse Jackie, "Spin City" and Sex and the City.

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

"Ragtime Cowboy Joe" is a popular song: lyrics by Grant Clarke, music by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams.

Randy Blair

Other credits include the world premieres of The Yellow Wood (directed by BD Wong), Chaplin, and The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun. Regionally, he has appeared in productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Avenue Q, Oliver!, Ragtime, and Children of Eden.

Roger Sale

Sale contributed frequently to the New York Review of Books in the 1970s -- he wrote 39 reviews and articles for that publication from 1971 to 1983, and offered his critical opinion of such now-notable books as Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow and Dispatches by Michael Herr.

Scott Sherrin

His subsequent career included a number of other stage and television productions: Cats, Fame, Five Guys Named Moe, From the Top, Ragtime, and appeared on the Royal Variety Performance.

Sweatman

Wilbur Sweatman (1882–1961), African-American ragtime and dixieland jazz composer, bandleader, and clarinetist

Terra Verde

Terra Verde is strongly rooted in ragtime (examples: Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb), new (or contemporary) ragtime (David Thomas Roberts, Frank French, Scott Kirby), Latin American music (Ernesto Nazareth, Ernesto Lecuona) and Romantic music of the 19th century (Frédéric Chopin, Louis Moreau Gottschalk).

Terry Waldo

Peter Ecklund, Dan Barrett, Howard Alden, Eddy Davis, Brian Nalepka, Chuck Wilson, and Arnie Kinsella, longtime associates, are but a few of the many superlative jazz and ragtime musicians who have been part of the group in its many incarnations over the years.

The Crazy Otto Medley

"The Crazy Otto Medley" is a ragtime medley, originally arranged and recorded by the German comic performer Fritz Schulz-Reichel under the pseudonym of "Otto der Schrage" aka "Crazy Otto".

The Ragtime Dance

Marvin Hamlisch incorporated "The Ragtime Dance" into a medley for the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning 1973 film The Sting.

Toni Trucks

Theatre credits include "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," “Cactus Flower,” “Stormy Weather”, “Kiss Me, Kate”, “West Side Story,” “Oklahoma!,” “Follies,” “Footloose,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “Ragtime,” “Sweet Charity” and “Children of Eden.”

Valisia LeKae

Previously, she was a swing and understudy in the Broadway productions of The Book of Mormon (2011), Ragtime (2009), and The Threepenny Opera (2006) and a performer in 110 in the Shade (2007).

Wenrich

Percy Wenrich (1880–1952), an American composer of ragtime and popular music


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