PART  463



                              Ragtime  


                 ABE LYMAN AND HIS CALIFORNIANS  - 12th St. Rag  (1929)



        "Twelfth Street Rag" was composed by Euday L. Bowman in 1914. Bowman worked as a pianist in some of the bordellos of Kansas City.  He recorded and published his own recording of the song, on Bowman 11748.. It is one of the most famous and best-selling rags of the ragtime era.  Later,it has been recorded by many artists, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Lester Young.    
      The recording by Pee Wee Hunt was the Billboard number-one single for 1948, selling over three million copies. It was released as Capitol Records 15015 in May 1948.
      Donald Peers recorded the song in London on March 26, 1949. It was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalogue number B 9763.