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Browse piano sheets by Clarence C. Wiley on Zen Virtual Piano. Clarence C. Wiley was born on October 25, 1883, and was an American pharmacist from Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was one of five children born to Benson and Ella Wiley. What brought him fame was a folk rag, the Car-Barlick-Acid Rag, which he copyrighted on August 9, 1901. A pharmacist remembered for a rag pairs two lines of work that do not often meet. Giles Brothers bought the rag in 1904 and sold it in turn to Jerome H. Remick and Company in 1907. He published the cakewalk himself, hoping for success: it was his first and only piece of music, and a rousing one, fun to play. After this success he went out to travel with local vaudeville troupes, wanting to play piano with them. The path from a self-published cakewalk to a sale in 1904 and a second sale in 1907 suggests a piece that kept finding new hands. Chicago came next, after some more playing in the area; he became a musical director soon after arriving there, and by 1908 his success was firmly established. He died on March 2, 1908, and was buried in Keokuk County, Iowa. Set beside a Chicago post reached within a few years, the date of his death leaves a short career where a long one might have been expected.
Browse piano sheets by Clarence C. Wiley on Zen Virtual Piano.
Clarence C. Wiley was born on October 25, 1883, and was an American pharmacist from Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was one of five children born to Benson and Ella Wiley. What brought him fame was a folk rag, the Car-Barlick-Acid Rag, which he copyrighted on August 9, 1901. A pharmacist remembered for a rag pairs two lines of work that do not often meet.
Giles Brothers bought the rag in 1904 and sold it in turn to Jerome H. Remick and Company in 1907. He published the cakewalk himself, hoping for success: it was his first and only piece of music, and a rousing one, fun to play. After this success he went out to travel with local vaudeville troupes, wanting to play piano with them. The path from a self-published cakewalk to a sale in 1904 and a second sale in 1907 suggests a piece that kept finding new hands.
Chicago came next, after some more playing in the area; he became a musical director soon after arriving there, and by 1908 his success was firmly established. He died on March 2, 1908, and was buried in Keokuk County, Iowa. Set beside a Chicago post reached within a few years, the date of his death leaves a short career where a long one might have been expected.
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Clarence C. Wiley (1883–1908), an American from Oskaloosa, Iowa, worked as a pharmacist and won fame for the folk rag Car-Barlick-Acid Rag.
Wiley copyrighted it on August 9, 1901; Giles Brothers bought it in 1904 and sold it to Jerome H. Remick and Company in 1907.
He traveled with local vaudeville troupes, then went to Chicago and became a musical director.
He died on March 2, 1908, and was buried in Keokuk County, Iowa.