Music a Century Ago (continued)

Maple Leaf Rag (1908)
This Scott Joplin classic is rendered instrumentally with a banjo solo.

Way Down In Cotton Town (1910)
A simple love song set in "Cotton Town, that near-forgotten town."

Come, Josephine, in my flying machine (1909)
A mildly romantic song celebrating conquest of the skies.

Cotton Time (1910)
A conventional period dialect song full of typical regional details.

Take A Car (1905)
A novelty song praising the economic merits of urban trolleys, set in New York City.

There's a Dixie girl who's longing for a Yankee Doodle boy (1908)
Celebration of the type of inter-regional union President Roosevelt's parents enjoyed. Similar matches took place in Haralson County in consequence of the "Yankee Boom" years during the late 19th century in Tallapoosa.

Theodore (1907)
A humorous song about a certain US President. In this song, the word "Yankee" refers to Americans as a whole, from the perspective of Great Britain and King Edward.

In dear old Georgia (1905)
A love song in the rich operatic style then popular, especially among "barbershop quartets".

Keep away from the fellow who owns an automobile (1909) Irving Berlin's talent shines through in this humorous cautionary tune from his early career.