DESCRIPTION:
Luther McAlister VHS No. 17

Recorded June 1991 at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival (Sedalia, Missouri). The contents of this tape are:

Part 1: Outdoor venue

SUSAN BOYCE & BRIAN JONES
1. Transportation Medley (Row, Row Row / I'm Wild About Horns on Automobiles / Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine)
2. Give My Regards to Broadway

MIMI BLAIS
1. Rhapsody Rag
2. April Fool Rag
3. Tricky Fingers

SCOTT KIRBY
1. Relaxin'
2. On the Sunny Side of the Street
3. Charleston Rag [ending clipped on original tape]

VICTOR PAGANO
1. Hilarity Rag [beginning clipped on original tape]
2 Quality - A High Class Rag

IAN WHITCOMB & DICK ZIMMERMAN (Joined by Mimi Blais and Mike Schwimmer)
1. Where the Black-Eyed Susans Grow

IAN WHITCOMB
1. I Love to See the Evening Sun Go Down

IAN WHITCOMB, REGINA WHITCOMB, & DAVID REFFKIN
1. Honeybunch
2. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight

IAN WHITCOMB & DICK ZIMMERMAN
1. A Precious Little Thing Called Love

RICH BERRY, MIMI BLAIS, & JANET ____
1. The Thriller!
2. Solace - A Mexican Serenade
3. Crush Collision March [beginning clipped on original tape]

MASANOBU IKEMIYA
1. Hot House Rag
2. Richmond Rag
3. Pasquinade - Caprice (Gottschalk)

DICK ZIMMERMAN
1. The Rag Picker's Rag
2. Topliner Rag
3. Maple Leaf Rag

Part 2: After-hours at the Best Western Hotel

VICTOR PAGANO
1. Prosperity Rag
2. Broadway Rag
3. Charleston Rag
4. New Era Rag
5. Peace and Plenty
6. Grace and Beauty

This is the complete, unedited VHS tape from the Luther McAlister collection, donated to the archives of the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation in 2014. By permission of the Foundation, it is being made freely available on YouTube for the study and enjoyment of all. If you are a performer in this video and you object to its appearance on YouTube, please contact me, and the video will be removed.

For more information on the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, please visit: http://www.scottjoplin.org