Max Keenlyside performing Luckey Roberts' "Railroad Blues" @ The WCRF~ 2008
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Great sound! Powerful ragtime touch! Bravo!
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also was recorded by various dance bands
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I should add that about the same time the roll was released, a competing version of Luckey's tune was released on the QRS label, played by Pete Wendling.
This is a fantastic version, not like the composer's original, but in Pete's own style, including some really fantastic left-hand figurations.
A few years later, about 1922 or 23, Roy Bargy made a version of this tune on Mel-O-Dee.
Bargy was hugely influenced by Luckey Roberts himself, whom he had heard growing up in Toledo, Ohio.
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hahaha I think Luckey recorded this three times and also made a piano roll of it. The roll was released by Vocalstyle in April 1919, making it probably one of the first appearances of boogie-woogie on rolls, or anywhere besides sheet music at that time. Then Luckey plays it (nearly inaudibly) in the background for one of the famous "Two Black Crows" comedy records with Moran and Mack in 1927. Finally, there are his well-known recordings of it for Circle in 1946 and Good Time Jazz in 1958.
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Hey Tom, if Adam Swanson saw this video he would be very dissapointed. The actual spelling of Roberts' name is "Lucky Roberts".
=P
Will
wilscool 2 years ago
Hey Wil - Go check your Wikipedia - -
Luckey wins - hehe
Luckey Roberts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts (7 August, 1887 5 February, 1968) was a composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles.
tdub1941 2 years ago
According to Adam Swanson, It is just spelled "Lucky". If you want to continue this discussion, ask Adam. hehe
wilscool 2 years ago
Hey Wil,
Gosh I missed the chance to beat him up about this down in Versailles. Aw Shucks!
Oh well, We can gang up on him eventually to get him straightened out.
Whadyathink?
tdub1941 2 years ago
Sounds like a plan. West Coast Festival 2009. See ya there!
Will
wilscool 2 years ago
WCRF 2009 ~ YEAH !
tdub1941 2 years ago