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Johnny Maddox's First Record adamgswanson 179 views Pianist Johnny Maddox's first record, Dot 1005, was also one of the first on the famous Dot label. This record is very interesting because it shows a side of Johnny that yo...
Gene and Glenn - Victor 22385 adamgswanson 76 views One of the biggest hit records for the 1930s radio and recording team Gene and Glenn (Gene Carroll and Glenn Rowell). Glenn Rowell (1899-1965) was a well-known pianist and ...
Baby Rose Marie - Victor 22960 adamgswanson 159 views Baby Rose Marie (b. August 15, 1923 and still living!), sings "Say That You Were Teasing Me" and "Take a Picture of the Moon," with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra accompa...
Charley Thompson - Real St. Louis Ragtime adamgswanson 161 views The late, great musician and collector Mike Montgomery gave me these very hard-to-find 78s, and I decided it was high time I shared them with YouTube. To my knowledge, only...
Gene and Glenn - Home Is Heaven--Heaven Is Home adamgswanson 105 views The famous 1930s radio team of Gene Carroll and Glenn Rowell (Jake and Lena on the radio) perform a song from an unfortunately lost early musical, Cameo Kirby (Fox, 1929). ...
Terry Hartzel - Porgy and Bess Medley adamgswanson 56 views Terry Hartzel of Secaucus, New Jersey, plays one of his wonderful medleys of songs from musicals. This medley from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935) includes: Summer...
Terry Hartzel - Cryin' for the Moon adamgswanson 56 views Terry Hartzel of Secaucus, New Jersey, plays a great ragtime song, "Cryin' for the Moon." Written by Larry Conley, Jules Roos, and Jack Stern and published in St. Louis in ...
Terry Hartzel - Dust on the Moon adamgswanson 88 views Terry Hartzel of Secaucus, New Jersey, plays Ernesto Lecuona's popular song from the early-'30s "Dust on the Moon." Recorded in the Diamond Belle Saloon at the Strater Hot...
Emmett Miller - Bluebird B-6550 adamgswanson 183 views Another rare record of Emmett Miller, from his last session in 1936 for Bluebird. Miller sings two more of his signature tunes, "I Ain't Got Nobody" and "Right Or Wrong," a...
Emmett Miller's First Record! adamgswanson 313 views A few months ago, I was lucky enough to acquire an extremely rare record on eBay. The legendary but mysterious Emmett Miller's first, which, until a few years ago, was not ...

About Adam Swanson

Adam Swanson, from the small town of Shenandoah, Iowa, is rapidly becoming known as one of the world's foremost performers and historians of ragtime and early American popular music. Adam has studied piano with Waleed Howrani of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a graduate of the Moscow State Conservatory. Although he is only nineteen years old, he has been a featured performer at ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States. Adam is the youngest three-time winner of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest, held in Peoria, Illinois.

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