[Dixielandjazz] "...playing a jag-time tune..."

[Hal Vickery]

I hate to respond to my own posts, but maybe it was "jazz time."  Brain
cramp....

Maybe next time, I'll just write about my experiences in Elkhart this
weekend, including "winning Bob Havens."

Hal Vickery

-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Vickery [mailto:hvickery at svs.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 12:36 PM
To: 'dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com'
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] "...playing a jag-time tune..."

To further complicate things, let me add that one line in "Music Maestro,
Please" is "ragtime, jagtime, swing."

Hal Vickery

-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Craig I.
Johnson
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:44 AM
To: cellblk7 at comcast.net
Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] "...playing a jag-time tune..."


Bob,
I don't exactly know the answer to the question as you asked it, but the
Anderson
"Fake book" includes a tune entitled "Jagtime Johnsons's Ragtime March" by 
Fred L. Ryder - 1901 -- described elsewhere as:
>>A nicely done, slow cakewalk which makes use of 'stop' time and ...


and here's a link to the sheet music at Duke U.  
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/b/b07/b0763/b0763-1-72dpi.html

And here's a snip from a google search that makes it look to me that
"jagtime" was/is a seldom used synonym for "ragtime":

>Swedish Ragtime Meeting (Bromma, 13/9-2003) >Bittersweet Rag - A Jagtime
Tune (Robert R. Darch, 1977) 


Another snip:
this time from the lyrics (by Paul West) of a Jerome Kern tune entitle
"The Ragtime Restaurant" -- from the 1912Show "The Red Ptticoat"

Sometime later 
Came an educated waiter 
And he thought he knew a lot, 
Says he, "I'll know 'em 
And I'm going to show 'em 
How to do the turkey trot!" 
Well, he tried to do it 
But they wouldn't let him through it, 
And they said, "You bet you can't!" 
They ragged him all over the floor, 
And his elegant clothing they tore, 
They they fired him through the door, 
Saying, "Don't come here no more 
To this ragtime restaurant! 
This ragtime restaurant! 
This regular ragtime, jolly and jagtime 
Ragtime restaurant! 

And a 1957 article in "Time Magazine" said
When the boola overflowed with the fun of the Turkey trot , ragtime and
jagtime at Mory's , 
and naughty dancing girls at lesser saloons , Stover came ...

Craig Johnson
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