The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

Early Piano Ragtime 1913 - 1930


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Jazz
Catalogue NumberRBF 33
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Folkways Records
Record Format33 1/3 RPM - 12"
Shelf Number000865
Number of Tracks16
Date Recorded1977
Album Artists
Notes N/A

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - 1915 Rag
Composer(s) : Harry Austin Tierney
2 - The Tramp Rag
Composer(s) : Joe Batten
3 - Delirious Rag
Composer(s) : Willie Eckstein; Harry Thomas
4 - Breakin' The Piano
Composer(s) : Billy James
5 - Monkey Blues
Composer(s) : Max Darewski
6 - Fine Feathers
Composer(s) : Larry Briers
7 - Spring Feelin'
Composer(s) : David Thorne
8 - You've Got To Be Modernistic
Composer(s) : James P. Johnson
9 - Frog-I-More Rag
Composer(s) : Jelly Roll Morton
10 - King Porter Stomp
Composer(s) : Jelly Roll Morton
11 - Dusting The Keys
Composer(s) : Harry Snodgrass
12 - Try It And Play It
Composer(s) : Phil Ohman
13 - Pianola
Composer(s) : Frank Westphal
14 - Chimes
Composer(s) : Pastalley; Viladomat
15 - Doing The Dominoes
Composer(s) : Ronald Courlay
16 - Dancing Shadows
Composer(s) : Ernie Golden