Scott Joplin Movie Dueling Pianos Competition Scene - 1977

This is the best clip in the movie Scott Joplin (1977) by Universal Studios. It depicts a competition between "professors" (brothel pianists) to win $100 from John Stark in Sedalia, Missouri. Louis Chauvin, who is a better pianist but can't read/write music, teams up with Joplin and unleashes Maple Leaf Rag upon the public for the first time (this did not actually occur.) You cannot buy this movie anywhere except terrible VHS non-original copies on Amazon and searching Google for the same terrible copies. Dick Hyman is playing the soundtrack and Billy Dee Williams is portraying Scott Joplin. Please contact Universal and encourage them to release a high quality DVD and/or streaming versions of this good, but historically inaccurate, movie!

I have done my best to try to clean the sound up using Audacity, but it's still a bit crackly.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• scott joplin
• maple leaf rag
• sedalia
• ragtime
• john stark
• dueling piano
• piano
• billy dee williams

[DrKorn5]

@tonga77 or at least a cakewalk version but yes it is

[TheJMusicNow]

@cebukid70 Will netflix repost the movie?

[TheJMusicNow]

Joplin was obvioulsly smoking something really good when he wrote this rag

[Army30th]

The man playing the owner of the Maple Leaf Club and running the contest, is none other than James Herbert "Eubie" Blake, an actual Ragtime pianist and composer who actually met Scott Joplin in 1914.

[wilkesjournal]

@GaoZimu @rasen0405 Maple Leaf Rag doesn't start until 4:55 in this video.

[Morahman7vnNo2]

I remember way back before this clip was taken down. Remember what a similar yet more functional place it used to be?

[davidvkPro]

The brilliant film!

[GaoZimu]

@rasen0405 its maple leaf rag

[tonga77]

@rasen0405

I think it's a ragtime version of poet and peasant overture.

[AnAmericanInMexico]

@AlphaTerminus Any update on a Universal re-issue of the movie on DVD? Or how do we contact Universal to put in requests for same. Thks.