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Black and White Rag
The "Black and White Rag" is a 1908 ragtime composition by George Botsford.[1] The song was recorded widely for both the phonograph and player piano,[2] and was the third ragtime composition to sell over one million copies of sheet music.[3] Early recordings were typically by bands; the first recording was performed by the American Symphony Orchestra for an Edison cylinder release.[4][5][a] The first known piano recording of the piece was by Albert Benzler, recorded on Lakeside/U.S.Everlasting Cylinder #380 in June 1911.[6][5][a] This recording is somewhat rare (Lakeside/U.S.Everlasting cylinders, though molded celluloid on a wax/fiber core, were made in small batches). Pianist Wally Rose revitalized interest in the song with his 1941 recording,[7] leading to one of the best-known versions: a 1952 recording by Trinidadian pianist Winifred Atwell, which helped her to establish an international profile. Originally the B-side of another composition, "Cross Hands Boogie", "Black and White Rag" was championed by the popular disc jockey Jack Jackson, and started a craze for Atwell's honky-tonk style of playing.[8] The recording became a million selling gold record, and in the United Kingdom was later used as the theme tune for the long-running BBC2 television snooker tournament, Pot Black.[9] "Black and White" Rag was also later arranged for use as the music in the 1985 BBC Computer game Repton and some of its sequels.[10] The piece has also become a fiddle standard since as early as the 1930s, with recordings by musicians such as Johnny Gimble and Benny Thomasson. Notes
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