More Ragtime!

[Richard M Roberts]

Since we have Max Morath up there, here's two more good documentaries on Ragtime:

First, a PROJECT 20 Doc from 1960 hosted by Hoagy Carmichael called THOSE RAGTIME YEARS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hMNAyErh4A&t=1847s

and a 1977 CBC Doc called THEY ALL PLAYED RAGTIME, based on the book of the same title by Rudi Blesh (he's also interviewed) and featuring Max Morath, Eubie Blake, my friend ian Whitcomb, Richard Zimmerman, Terry Waldo, Lou Busch (aka Joe "Fingers" Carr) Dick Wellstood and others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIoPWfg7QS0&t=2014s

Tap your toes. Enjoy.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

[William Ferry]

I have an old ragtime album by Dick Wellstood, playing Scott Joplin. In the liner notes for THE RAGTIME DANCE, he tells an anecdote about his being the copyist for THE RAGTIME YEARS. He apologized to the pianist who had to work from his illegible score (which was unreadable due to time constraints).