The song was recorded widely for both the phonograph and player piano,[2] and was the third ragtime composition to sell over one million copies of sheet music.[3] The song was first recorded in 1909, as performed by the Victor orchestra for a Victor disc release.[3] The first known cylinder recording of this piece was by Albert Benzler, recorded on Lakeside/U.S.Everlasting Cylinder #380 in June 1911.[4] This recording is somewhat rare (Lakeside/U.S.Everlasting cylinders, though molded celluloid on a wax/fiber core, were made in small batches). Edison featured the "Black and White Rag" on one of his Early Diamond Disc Records (50116) from 1913 played by a Brass Orchestra.
Pianist Wally Rose revitalized interest in the song with his 1941 recording,[5] leading to the one of the best-known versions: a 1952 recording by Trinidadian pianist Winifred Atwell, which helped her to establish an international profile. Originally the B-side of another composition, "Cross Hands Boogie", "Black and White Rag" was championed by the popular disc jockey Jack Jackson, and started a craze for Atwell's honky-tonk style of playing.[6] The recording became a million selling gold record, and in the United Kingdom was later used as the theme tune for the long-running BBC2 television snooker tournament, Pot Black.[7]
"Black and White" Rag was also later arranged for use as the music in the 1985 BBC Computer game Repton and some of its sequels.[8]
The piece has also become a fiddle standard with recordings by musicians such as Johnny Gimble and Benny Thomasson.
References
^Jasen, David A.; Trebor Jay Tichenor (1989). Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History. Dover. p. 140. ISBN0-486-25922-6.
^Blesh, Rudi; Harriet, Janis (23 March 2011). The All Played Ragtime. Read Books Limited. ISBN9781446546901. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^ abSullivan, Steve (17 May 2017). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Volume 3. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 19. ISBN9781442254497. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^"Black and White rag". UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^Jasen, David A. (15 October 2013). A Century of American Popular Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 23. ISBN9781135352646. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^"WINIFRED ATWELL". Rockabilly.nl. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
^"My Mother's Sheet Music - Winifred Atwell". My Mother's Sheet Music. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
^Paterson, Jim. "Ragtime Music - its History, Composers and Influences". MFiles. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
Links
The first known recording mentioned above can be heard here. http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=%40attr+1%3D1020&num=1&start=1&query=cylinder14960
January 07, 2023
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