Gurdonark dug up a motherlode of work by E. Pique, the arranger of Slightly on the Mash. He got it from an interesting source — a branch of Creative Commons for scientific work, called Science Commons.
Link: http://en.scientificcommons.org/edward_pique
Here’s another version of Smokey Mokes, this time from an original piano roll.
Smoky Mokes — played by Dennis Pash and
Meredith Axelrod
A very popular cakewalk from 1899, “Smoky Mokes” was composed by Abe Holzmann. Here it is played by Dennis Pash and Meredith Axelrod on Saturday, 17 November 2007 at the 21st annual West Coast Ragtime Festival.
About the song:
Smoky Mokes was the first of Holzmann’s compositions and [...]
What did the original players of these songs look like? Here’s a sample from C.F. Martin & His Guitars, 1796-1873:
Carte-de-visite, ca. 1860. This striking photograph shows the kind of professional performer to whom Martin often sold instruments. Inside his traveling trunk, against which leans his guitar, are a violin and sheet music. [...]
My credits for the 1892 song Slightly on the Mash left the creators a mystery:
It was written by A. G. Send, arranged for guitar by the enigmatic E. Pique, and published by J. Oettl. I didn’t find any biographical info or other work by these people.
As it turns out, gurdonark [...]
Via Tweedblog:
The good Reverend tears it up with a tune that bears more than a superficial resemblance to Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag. He makes it look so easy…
This is from a newly released compilation of Reverend Gary Davis performances.
Courtesy of mustaches of the nineteenth century, a blog with an incredibly specific niche, I present some mustaches of the nineteenth century:
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Yes, one of those is not like the others.
See also: Dave Grohl Doesn’t Appreciate Your Hipster Mustache:
Dave Grohl enjoys a [...]
This post is my second recording of D. E. Jannon’s 1854 piece Carrie Waltz. I previously blogged it about a year ago on blog.gonze.com.
MP3: Carrie Waltz, version 2 (2:27)
I redid it because I’ve gotten [...]
After posting my Vess Ossman playlist I came across a star recording over on archive.org that I didn’t know about — a 1907 banjo version of Scott Joplin’s 1899 piece Maple Leaf Rag, which would be almost the only currently recognizeable song in Ossman’s recorded works. (The other recognizeable works [...]
At 10 PM every Wednesday night in May and June I’ll be playing in Madame Pamita’s band at a French restaurant in Silverlake called Taix. It’s not nearly as formal as the restaurant’s web site implies. We start when the kitchen closes for the night, and there are a couple bands after us.
It’s [...]
I have created an awesome playlist of music by a banjo player from the early recording era named Vess Ossman. I hope you’ll dig it.
This is a recording of an 1885 song called “Slightly on the Mash”. It’s a happy number for drinking, dancing and goofing off.
MP3:
Slightly on the Mash Schottische
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