Rudi Blesh Harriet Janis THEY ALL PLATED RAGTIME The True Story of
an American Music Alfred A. Knopf New Tork 1950 To the memory of
SCOTT JOPLIN Here is the genius whose spirit., though diluted, was
filtered through thousands of cheap songs and vain imitations. JOHN
STARK S LIBRARY D ODDI Difisai ny MO. PUBLIC LIBRARY mh go way man,
I can hypnotize dis nation, I can shake de earth s foundation wid
de Maple Leaf Rag Oh go way man, just holdyo breath a minit, For
theres not a stunt thafs in it, wid de Maple Leaf Rag MAPLE LEAP
RAG SONG Music by Scott Joplin Words by Sydney Brown
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IRITING the first book on ragtime presented special
problems. In the virtual absence of written source material, it was
necessary, and in any event would have been desirable, to rely
almost exclusively on personal interviews or correspond ence with
the actual personalities who made ragtime one of the greatest
musical crazes in history. The majority of these personalities were
not easy to find. Many, of course, were dead. Most of those who had
survived, thirty years since the ragtime craze ended and over half
a century since it began, had lapsed into obscurity. We were
fortunate, however, in lo cating all the important surviving key
figures and the relatives and friends of those who are dead. Too
profuse thanks cannot be given to the scores of people who talked
with and played for us, for without the help they gave so
enthusiastically this book would have been impossible to write. The
story of Sedalia, the cradle of ragtime, and much of that of St.
Louis, its quondam capital, are from the words of Arthur Marshall,
G. Tom Ireland, the Reverend Alonzo Hayden, C. W. Gravitt, and
William G. Flynn. TheSedalia picture was filled out by
correspondence with Charles R. IX THEY ALL PLAYED BAG-TIME Hanna,
music critic of the Sedalia Democrat, and Mrs. Julia Cross, sister
of Scott Hayden. S. Branson Campbell The Rag time Kid, an early
friend of Scott Joplin, generously furnished us with a part of the
early stories of Joplin and Sedalia and permitted us to quote from
his short history. When Ragtime Was Young which appeared in
installments in the Jazz Journal, London, St. Louis history was
unfolded by Sam Patterson, Artie Matthews, Charley Thompson, George
Reynolds, Webb Owsley, Lester A. Walton, Mrs. Edward Mellinger,
Charles Warfield who also contributed to the Chicago picture,
Sylvestre Chauvin, nephew of Louis Chauvin, and the St. Louis
ragtime enthusiast Dr. Hubert S. Pruett. The New Orleans chapter
was filled out by George Pops Foster, Miss Ida Jackson and Mrs.
Mariah Sutton sisters of the late Tony Jackson, Sammy Davis, Tony
Parenti, and Dr. Edmond Souchon, and by Jelly Roll Morton posthu
mously through his interviews with Alan Lomax and the 1938
documentary records he made for the Library of Congress archives.
The rights to use this material were granted to Circle Records by
the Morton Estate and its Executor, Hugh E. MacBeth, thus making it
available to the authors. Invaluable, too, in the New Orleans
connection were the reminiscences of the perennial prophet of
ragtime, Roy J. Carew. To him also go our thanks for permission to
quote from one of his published articles, for access to his
sheet-music collection, and for his patient hours of playing the
old rag time masterpieces for us. The life story of the late James
Scott of Neosho and Kansas City was reconstructed from
interviewsand correspondence with his sister, Mrs. Lena King, with
his brothers, Howard and Oliver, and with his cousins, Mrs. Patsy
L. Thomas, Mrs. Ruth Callahan, and the late Ada Brown, and with a
fellow musician of Scotts, Lawrence Denton. Chicagos large part in
ragtime was related by Nettie Compton, Glover Compton who also
contributed much about Louisville, Charlie Elgar, Hugh Swift,
Hurley and Horace Diemer, and George Filhe. The story of the first
and most successful of the chains of ragtime schools was told by X
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Carle Christensen for his father...
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