tracks

Shuffle Along Overture
Nobody
That's Got 'Em - Rag
Honey Lamb (Ballad)
Brazilian Dreams (Tango-Intermezzo)
Down In Honky Tonk Town (One-Step)
Returned: A Negro Ballad
The Bell Hop Rag
Black Patti Waltzes
Goodnight Angeline
The Castle Walk (One-Step)
Aunt Hagar's Children Blues
Valse Angelique
At The Ball, That's All
When The Moon Shines
Oh! You Devil (Rag)
Breath Of Autumn (Concert Waltz)
Pine Apple Rag Song
Fizz Water (One-Step)

notes

1. Shuffle Along Overture (1921): Introducing “Opening Chorus”, “Love Will Find a Way”, “Honeysuckle Time”, “If You’ve Never Been Vamped by a Brown-Skin”, “Gypsy Blues”, “I’m Just Wild About Harry”, “I’m Craving for That Kind of Love,” and “Bandanna Days”; 2. (1905); 3. (1919); 4. (1914); 5. (1914); 6. (1916); 7. (1902) 6:27; 8. (1914); 9. (1896); 10. (1919) 3:09; 11. (1914); 12. (1921); 13. (1913); 14. (1913); 15. (From The 1904 Revival Of In Dahomey); 16. (1909); 17. (1913); 18. (1910); 19. (1914).

Digital Mastering: Soundbyte Productions, Inc., New York City.
Recorded June 1-2, 2012, at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City.
Cover photo: Harlem Street Scene, 1915, Brown Bros.
All orchestrations and composer photos from the Rick Benjamin Collection.
Piano by Steinway and Sons.
Dedicated to Max Morath, "The Ragtime Man".
This recording was made possible by a grant from the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trust.

Total timing: 71:31.
℗ & © 2012 Anthology Of Recorded Music, Inc.
New World Records, 20 Jay Street, Suite 1001, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Printed in USA.

credits

A&R – Paul M. Tai
Baritone Vocals – Edward Pleasant (tracks: 2, 14)
Cello – Alistair MacRae
Clarinet – Alicia Lee
Conductor, Liner Notes, Concept By – Rick Benjamin
Contrabass – Mat Fieldes
Cornet – Paul Murphy
Design – Bob Defrin
Drums, Bells, Mallets – 2, 3, 4, 11, 13, 14, 15, 19, (tracks: James Musto III), Mike Dobson (tracks: 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 18)
Engineer [Assistant], Edited By [Assistant] – Jeanne Velonis
Flute, Piccolo Flute – Leslie Cullen
Mastered By [Digital Mastering] – Paul Zinman
Oboe – Arthur Sato (tracks: 1)
Orchestra – Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Piano – Diane Scott, Rick Benjamin (tracks: 7)
Producer [Associate Producer] – Paul Herzman
Producer, Engineer – Judith Sherman
Soprano Vocals – Anita Johnson (tracks: 4, 7, 15, 18)
Tenor Vocals – Robert Mack (4) (tracks: 10)
Trombone – Tim Albright
Viola – Thomas Rosenthal
Violin [First Violin], Concertmaster – Caroline Chin
Violin [Second Violin] – Bryony Stroud-Watson
Vocals [Blues Singer] – Linda Thompson Williams

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