To: Twotone
Wonderful Read! I remember the Ragtime Revival and seeing the elderly Eubie Blake on TV. He could still tickle those ivories! :-)
Thanks for posting this.
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01/19/2020 4:00:12 PM PST by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: left that other site
Ragtime had basically flamed out by Prohibition...and Eubie lived long enough to play before President Reagan at Lincoln Center.
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01/19/2020 4:36:49 PM PST by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
To: left that other site
I remember seeing Eubie Blake on the Merv Griffin show. He was sitting at the piano, telling a story and he got a bit lost. He just abandoned the story, shrugged and said, “I dunno where I was going ... but I remember how to play the song.” He then he played it beautifully.
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01/19/2020 5:00:11 PM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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