Dill Pickles Rag Charles Johnson Sheet Music 1906 onward Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Harding and Theodore Roosevelt

Harding and Theodore Roosevelt

the habitués of more upscale nightclubs

Courtesy UNLV Special Collections

dance and listen to music

Customers were apparently confused about whether to sit down at a table and wait for service or to go to a food counter and help themselves

Dill Pickles Rag Charles Johnson Sheet Music 1906 onward Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Harding and Theodore RooseveltIn the early 20th century, ragtime a style of early jazz music written largely for the piano and characterized by jaunty rhythms was enormously popular. Charles L Johnson, a musical prodigy who was born In Kansas City, had the biggest hit of 1906 with his composition Dill Pickles Rag. It was the second rag to sell a million copies. The first was Scott Joplins Maple Leaf Rag. Dill Pickles was published by the sheet music company Jerome H. Remick and