Camptown Races

Probably sing a song for everybody.

Like which one? Like Camptown Races or? Well,

it depends.

Is this something where I need a public domain song? Is

Not just Oh Susanna.

Camptown Races.

Come on.

Do-da, do-da.

You're singing a, you're singing a work song.

I thought you were gonna sing Camptown Ladies.

Doo-dah.

Doo-dah.

Doo-dah.

Camptown Ladies sing this song.

Whoopee, doo-dah.

Oh, doo-dah day.

Right.

Or Camptown Ladies.

Camptown Ladies sing a song.

The

sarcasm of it.

um late 1890s and that becoming a huge sheet music success um so yeah ragtime kind of is one of those things a bit like blues where it just it's somewhere in the midst of time the origins of it but it was um scott joplin was one of one of the people who wanted to formalize it as a as a as a black music form and um like i said it coincided with the um mass production of sheet music, which didn't really exist until the very end of the 19th century.

If you want to buy a piece of music by Stephen Foster when he was writing O Susanna and Camptown Races, that probably would have been handwritten if you went to your local music shop.

So just the fact you had these presses printing out this music was part of the industrialization of music.

um recording industry was too primitive to record scott joplin playing a piano very clearly at that point so early ragtime records tend to be played on banjos or something that would cut cut across onto the shellac 78 um so it means it's very very early days in the music industry but the two things do go hand in hand and ragtime is exported around the world and uh It's basically the first time there's a truly distinctive American music heard outside of America.

And he's just like, you should play...

Camp Town Races is one of the

names.

And Doc's like, go away.

It's a song that Bugs Bunny sings.

Camp Town Ladies.

Camp Town Ladies sings this song.

Is there a racial component to that? I know there's a one, how dry I am, how dry I am.

Nobody knows how dry.