Max Morath: Living a Ragtime Life! Part 2

Max Morath in concert on 5/24/1963.
First songs: Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts For Soldiers. If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Goodnight Germany! We Don't Want The Bacon (What We Want Is a Piece Of The Rhine)

"Tin Pan Alley went to war with a kit bag full of puns, gags, and frivolous ditties. An american general had said, "it is just as essentail that a soldier know how to sing as it is that he should carry a rifle and know how to shoot it." I have an impression the Pentagon no longer considers this necessary to combat readiness."

-Max Morath

Continued: K-K-K-Katy,and Thtop Your Thtuttering, Jimmy (Stop Your Stuttering, Jimmy)

"Few Tin Pan Alley ditties aimed at the folks over here ever made it over there. Any that did picked up a hundred parodies en route. This Medley includes the inevitable but little known sequel to a great wartime hit."

-Max Morath

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[sucklingpiglet]

wow :)

[rockgor]

Used to have several of Max's recordings. My favorite was a record of

rags by Irvin Berlin.

tnx 4 the nostalgic post.

[MissRosie89]

If he can love like he can play & sing ... well, my goodness me!

Great music, great photos - thanks wilscool!

[livingaragtimelife]

Hoooray! Max on youtube. More, more, more!