More Candy

Paragon Ragtime Orchestra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 2001)
• Original Release Date: October 8, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rialto Records
• ASIN: B00005U578
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,662 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Red Rose Rag (1911), Percy Wenrich.

2. More Candy (one-step, 1917), Mel B. Kaufman.

3. The Jungle Jubilee (rag novelty, 1910), John W. Bratton.

4. Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet (1909), Percy Wenrich.

5. The Jelly Roll Blues (1915), Ferdinand Morton.

6. Paddy Whack (two-step, 1906), J. Bodewalt Lampe.

7. The Witching Hour: A Spooky Rag (1915), Charles N. Grant.

8. The Get-a-Way (march, 1913), George L. Cobb.

9. My Uncle Sammy Gals (one-step, 1918), F. Henri Klickmann.

10. The Mississippi Rag (cakewalk, 1897), William H. Krell.

11. A Ragtime Travesty on "Carmen" (1918), M.L. Lake.

12. L’Encore (flute & clarinet duo, 1910), Victor Herbert.

13. Silver Heels (intermezzo, 1905), Charles N. Daniels.

14. Sweetmeats Rag (two-step,1907), Percy Wenrich.

15. Some Shape (one-step, 1917), George L. Cobb.

16. White Star Line ("Titanic") March (1887), J.T. Gardner.

17. The Hesitating Blues (slow drag, 1915), W.C. Handy.

18. Swanee (one-step, 1919), George Gershwin.

19. Big Foot Lou (cakewalk, 1899), Joseph Gearen.

20. Mona Lisa Valse (1914), George L. Cobb.

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Editorial Reviews

From the Artist

In the several years since our previous recording, the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and I have been busy touring across more than forty states and a couple of foreign countries. In the course of these many performances, what continues to amaze me is how much power - more than a century after it emerged - this music still has to captivate audiences. And I'm talking about real impact when even high school and college students come up to say that they found "Red Onion Rag" or "Jelly Roll Blues" for example, to be "really cool." But why is this old music attractive to people of all ages today? An obvious answer is that it sounds fresh and inviting to our rock and rap assailed ears. But going a bit deeper, these vintage rags, marches, one-steps and foxtrots still speak to us because they have an honesty and straightforwardness not always found in today's popular music. They were written primarily to communicate musical ideas, and not purely for profit. There is an inte! grity here that - perhaps only on an intuitive level - many today long for.

--Rick Benjamin

Product Description

"MORE CANDY" is a digital recording of American popular music of the 1880s through the 1910s as performed by today's foremost interpreters of this era - the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra. The music is played from the actual original orchestrations (i.e. orchesta sheet music), using antique instruments and authentic period playing styles. The disc features 26 selections - most not available on record since the age of the Victrola. Included as well are a number of world premiers, including the original versions of George Gershwin's "Swanee" (1919) and Jelly Roll Morton's own 1915 "Jelly Roll Blues" (reputedly the first-ever jazz orchestration). "MORE CANDY" was recorded with the latest in high-definition digital technology in the famous 1857 Mechanic's Hall in Worcester, MA. It is without doubt one of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra's best recordings.

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Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music to lift your spirits and maybe make you dance., September 22, 2010

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Let me include "It's a Great Old Rag" along with "More Candy"...both CD's The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra is the instrumental group featured in both of these. I could not be more delighted with this purchase. Having listened to short segments of some of the songs on the internet, I just knew I was going to love this music.....and I do. You can't help but to smile and you'll find yourself listening to the songs over and over again.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Candy, August 2, 2009

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Theatre & Dance music from the Ragtime Era. If this type of music is of interest to you, this cd will not disappoint. Great selection of music, no boring repetitive styles, and very easy to listen to.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff!, October 6, 2011

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Kathleen A. Baxter (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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Anything the Paragon Orchestra does is absolutely delightful. I do not yet have all of their albums, but it is in my future.