Ragtime cowboy Joe
Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a pop song written by Lewis F. Muir , Maurice Abrahams (music) and Grant Clarke (lyrics) and released in 1912.
background
The idea for Ragtime Cowboy Joe came about at a meeting of the three songwriters Grant Clarke (1891-1931), Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams (1883-1931) (who wrote the song Second Hand Rose together for Fanny Brice in 1921 ) in the house of Abrahams in Brooklyn when his nephew Joe Abrahams appeared in a cowboy costume. The rag is held in the shape of a march.
The singer Bob Roberts had a number one hit in the USA with Rag 1912 ; it was the second best-selling record of the year.
Ragtime Cowboy Joe became the University of Wyoming's anthem and is considered the popular humorous standard for western and hillbilly string bands.
First recordings and later cover versions
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 12 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Pinky Tomlin (1935), Harry Roy 's Tiger-Ragamuffins (1937), Ella Logan (1938), Van Alexander (1939), Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra Featuring The Four Modernaires (1939), Jo Stafford , Geraldo , Tiny Hill and The Hilltoppers, Eddy Howard (1945), Knuckles O'Toole, Jerry Smith, Terry Waldo / Susan La Marche and Teresa Brewer . Ragtime Cowboy Joe was also used in the western of the same name directed by Ray Taylor and in Incendiary Blonde (1945, directed by George Marshall ).
Web links
- "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" , 1912 Victor recording by Bob Roberts, at the Discography of American Historical Recordings , UC Santa Barbara
- 1912 full sheet music at Knowledge Bank , Ohio State University
- "Behind the Radio Cowboy" , New York Times article about "Cowboy Joe's Radio Ranch"
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 54
- ^ "Top Songs of 1912" , MusicVF , retrieved March 28, 2015
- ↑ Kai Moorschlatt Living in Wyoming: Where the West is Still Wild . 2011, p. 15.
- ↑ Otto C. Lightner, Pearl Ann Reeder: Hobbies - Volume 81 , 1976, issues 7-12, p. 127.
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online)
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032965/
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037816/soundtrack