Favorite Ragtime performance on a Cylinder Machine

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solophoneman
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Favorite Ragtime performance on a Cylinder Machine

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I am not sure who far this thread will go, but I love the old Historic ragtime performances from the early part of the 20th Century. What is your favorite? Here is mine. "The St. Louis Rag" by the Banjo King, Vess L. Ossman circa 1904. Played on my Columbia BF Peerless Graophophone from 1905.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zNMBdoqdWA

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Among my Blue Amberols it's the Junk Man Rag by Fred van Epps:

http://www.archive.org/details/edba-2225

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Here's my Youtube video of The Hungarian Rag by the New York Military Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smS40AoA_C0

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Re: Favorite Ragtime performance on a Cylinder Machine

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Wow, I had never heard that song by Billy Williams before about the death of Ragtime music. What a performance. That is certainly a keeper. What number blue amberol is that?

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