1911 ALEXANDERS RAGTIME BAND First RECORDing COLLINS AND HARLAN 78

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A series of great  JAZZ Records from early Ragtime to Beb-Bop on 78 rpm Victrola Records

FIRST RECORDING Of Irving Berlins Famous HIT SONG:

ALEXANDERS RAGTIME BAND by Collins and Harlan released in June 1911!

Eddie Morton: Ocean Roll

10" 78 rpm record

Condition:

VERY GOOD rubbed and  fine scratches

plays VG+ quiet w light crackle

Alexander's Ragtime Band" is the name of a song by Irving Berlin. It was his first major hit, in 1911. There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Irving Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft composition submitted by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a publisher.[1]

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is not itself an example of the ragtime musical idiom; apart from some mild syncopation, it has almost none of ragtime's characteristic features. Nonetheless, the lyrics clearly refer to the arrival of African-American musicians on the popular scene with their then-new idea of playing standard songs in a more exciting up-tempo style.

The first lines establish the African-American context:

Oh ma honey . . . ain't you goin' to the leaderman, the ragged meter man
References to "jazzing up" popular music include:

They can play a bugle call like you never heard before
So natural that you want to go to war
That's just the bestest band what am, honey lamb
and:

If you care to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime
The new style included new ways of playing traditional instruments as well:

There's a fiddle with notes that screeches
Like a chicken
And the clarinet is a colored pet
This song was played on the decks of the Titanic by the ship's band, as the ship sank beneath the waters on April 15, 1912.

The song has been recorded by many artists, including Al Jolson, Billy Murray, Louis Armstrong, George Formby, Bing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ray Charles.

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