Rubber Plant Rag - A Stretcherette

A rag written by George L. Cobb and published in 1909. I picked up the old sheet music for this a few years back, although I wasn't familiar with tune. Recently I heard a midi performance of the tune by "Perfessor" Bill Edwards and decided to try to play it on ukulele.

Check out Bill Edwards' site for tons of ragtime:
http://www.perfessorbill.com/pbcov6.shtml

His Rubber Plant Rag midi file is at :
http://www.perfessorbill.com/covers/rbbrplnt.htm

Sheet music can be viewed at the Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection, Mississippi State University:
http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/SheetMusic&...

Ted Tjaden has a web page on George Cobb and his music at:
http://www.ragtimepiano.ca/rags/cobb.htm

[This is a repost. The first upload was accidentally deleted, along with some comments :-( ]

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Music

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• ukulele
• uke
• ragtime
• instrumental

[KawhackitaRag]

Wow! That's great! It's great to hear this rag... it doesn't get played often enough, though at one time it was George Cobb's other ragtime "hit" (besides Russian Rag of course). If you are interested in his music, there is a whole page of it on Ted Tjaden's "Classic Ragtime Piano" site.

[heftone]

Thanks. The "About This Video" blurb now has links to Ted Tjaden's site and to a pdf of the Rubber Plant Rag sheet music.

[heinbanjo12]

Do you know that Sidney Bechet pieces of this tune used for his own composition Moulin a Cafe? Wel played as usual mr Heftone. Hein

[heftone]

I didn't know that. I suppose some of the early jazz players like Bechet cut their teeth on ragtime.

[todobanjo]

Hey! what you do with 4 strings a can t do with 88 keys!! somethig{s wrong!?

Beautiful tune

[mashtones]

Recomend - Rick Benjamin's Paragon Ragtime Orchestra- they have recorded several of Cobb's compositions- they have a website. You are great, keep up the fine and interesting stuff.

[apnea00]

Thats great!

[heinbanjo12]

Thank you. Very interesting. Hein

[KawhackitaRag]

Actually the B strain of "St. Louis Tickle" is a floating folk strain known as "Funky Butt", which had rather X-rated lyrics. It was quoted in several other rags and songs as well as "Buddy Bolden's Blues", and back in the day, was so scurrilous that Theron Bennett (composer of "St. Louis Tickle") had it published under the pen name "Barney and Seymore" so it wouldn't ruin his reputation!

[KawhackitaRag]

When I was in Hawaii in 2005, I bought a cheap uke to learn a stringed instrument... since I had tried earlier with a guitar and an instructional video and my fretting hand kept getting tangled up! So, naturally, I figured that 4 strings were easier than 6. No dice, but this video has inspired me to try again! AMAZING!

[heinbanjo12]

Bechet was one of them. Jelly Roll Morton used also an early banjo piece. He copied St Louis Tickle and named it Buddy Boldens Blues. Hein