From: Notes | Date: September 1, 1994| Author: Berlin, Edward A. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

James scott (1885-1938) was one of the "big three of classic ragtime," sharing the epithet with Scott Joplin and Joseph F. Lamb. Between 1903 and 1922, Scott published thirty piano rags, four waltzes, and four songs. Almost from the beginning, his unusual talent was evident. His brash, exuberant Frog Legs Rag (1906) was one of the great hits of the ragtime years, second in sales in publisher John Stark's catalogue only to Scott Joplin's ubiquitous Maple Leaf Rag. Through the next dec...