Sold Date: November 10, 2024
Start Date: November 10, 2024
Final Price: $90.00 (USD)
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CONDITION: rated at E+ with only the mildest handling scuff -- the playing surface is really closer to mint on this 12" oldie from 1914 with "astonishingly" hot RAGTIME from Lt. JAMES REESE EUROPE'S Society Orchestra featuring a rather incredible almost frenetic pace and wrapping with great drum solo from Buddy Gilmore on "CASTLE HOUSE RAG" and on the flip side with "CONGRATULATIONS WALTZ on this well-preserved VICTOR 35372 a 78 rpm record -- please see photos for overall condition -- below is what the Library of Congress extolled:

"The Castles in Europe One-Step (Castle House Rag)"--Europe's Society Orchestra (1914) Named to the National Registry: 2004 Essay by David Sager The Castles Original Label James Reese Europe --This vigorous and exciting piece of recorded ragtime must have sounded astonishing when it first appeared in 1914; it certainly is astonishing a century later. The sheer vigor and exuberance do not let up during the three-and-a-half minute performance and is unlike anything that had been recorded prior. James Reese Europe’s Society Orchestra provides us here with a rare window to peek through and hear tantalizing hints of diverse musical worlds—places that ordinarily did not get represented on phonograph records during the 1910s. Its significance is multi-fold, not the least of which was its raison d’etre

Will be securely packed in new 12x12x4 box with cardboard stiffeners and floating in a paper fill.

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