April 2010 - More free MIDI files from scanned piano rolls
2010-04-28 by reliance_nz
Hi all, A BIG update to my site this time, with over 70 new scans, all freely downloadable as MIDI files to listen to on your PC or MIDI-capable instrument! A real variety this time, including; * Chicago organist Chauncey Haines playing 'Blue Eyed Blues' * A rare US roll played by Sydney Landfield, who later became a famous Hollywood producer, his most well-known work being 'Hound of the Baskervilles'. * The talented Chicago musician Rose Vanderbosch going to town with a sizzling hot version of Berlin's 'Dearest' - one of the last Recordo rolls made by the Imperial company. * Another rare composed-played rag, 'Do Your Lovin' Like An Actor Man' - Lee S. Roberts under his "Stanford Robar" pseudonym. * A super-rare roll played by Kentucky vaudevillian Froggie Moore, who almost certainly inspired Jelly Roll Morton's 'Frog-I-More Rag'. * Another hot 1920's tune by Marg. Thompson, Columbia colleague of Jimmy Blythe and Clarence Johnson - "I'm Just Wild About Animal Crackers". * Mabel Wayne, composer of 'Ramona' and many other hits, plays 'Poor Pauline', a neat onestep from 1914. * Two great foxtrot rolls from Vocalstyle pianist Ruth Mack, including 'Never Again', which ragtime historian Dave Jasen calls 'sumptuous' and 'oustanding'. Be sure to check out my biographies section for details of her life and photo - I've unmasked her as Chicago-area soprano and radio artist Ruth Petelle. * 'Original Blues', a rare roll from small Baltimore-based company Mel-O-Art. Was it a demonstration roll used while they were raising capital? There's no catalogue number.. * Hilda Myers playing a superb version of 'Snakes Hips' - very interesting to compare this 28-year-old girl from Cincinnati with the famous Waller roll! Plus MANY more - rags, blues, Clarence Jones, Pete Wendling, Lem Fowler, George Gershwin, Frank Banta, Bertha Wolpa.. you name it! All available from the front page of my site, http://www.pianola.co.nz Regards, Robert Perry