Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Havanola (Hugo Frey) | 2:15 |
| 2 | Singin' the Blues (Con Conrad & J. Russel Robinson) | 4:32 |
| 3 | From Now On (George Gershwin) | 3:08 |
| 4 | Jaz-o-Mine (Harry Akst) | 2:26 |
| 5 | Just Snap Your Fingers at Care (Louis Silvers) | 2:17 |
| 6 | Whip-Poor-Will (Jerome Kern) | 3:13 |
| 7 | Rialto Ripples (George Gershwin & Will Donaldson) | 1:54 |
| 8 | Waitin' for Me (Maceo Pinkard) | 3:07 |
| 9 | Buzzin' the Bee (Pete Wendling & Jack Wells) | 2:12 |
| 10 | Darling (Chris Schonberg) | 2:31 |
| 11 | For Your Country and My Country (Irving Berlin) | 2:33 |
| 12 | Kangaroo Hop (Melville Morris) | 1:57 |
| 13 | Pastime Rag No. 3 (Artie Matthews) | 2:15 |
| 14 | Chinese Blues (Oscar Gardner) | 2:08 |
| 15 | Whispering (John Schonberger) | 3:11 |
| 16 | Arrah Go on I'm Gonna Go Back to Oregon (Bert Grant) | 1:51 |
About this Album
This second volume of George Gershwin’s piano rolls draws from ragtime, early jazz, the blues, and Tin Pan Alley to create a vivid sound portrait of the years between 1916 and 1920. As a teenage song-plugger, Gershwin made his name interpreting these lively tunes, and over 130 of his performances were made into piano rolls. These rare piano rolls were restored and made available digitally for the first time on this recording.
Credits
MUSICIANS
George Gershwin [aliases Fred Murtha (13), Bert Wynn (14)], piano
Cliff Hess, piano (10)
Rudy Erlebach, piano (11)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced and engineered by Max Wilcox November 1992 and February 1993 at The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
Art direction and design: John William Costa
Photographs courtesy of The Bettmann Archive
