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Tom And Jerry
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Browse piano sheets by Jerry Cammack on Zen Virtual Piano. Jeremiah Ward “Jerre” Cammack (10 September 1890 to 20 January 1963) was born in or near Marion, Indiana, the oldest child of his family, and by 1913 he was well ensconced in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he would be based for the rest of his life. The 1920 census enumeration showed him working as a musician, and the city directory placed him at the Columbia Theater on Gravois Avenue. Noting a musician’s workplace by its street and its theatre sets his career in a particular neighbourhood of a particular city. He first had Tom and Jerry Rag published in 1913 by the Saint Louis Publishing Company, possibly his own imprint, and that same year, under the label of Jerry Cammack, he issued the song “You Can Paddle and Paddle In Your Own Canoe, Cause I’ve Got Me An Airship Now,” composed by Jack Pittman. The “Tom” of the title was his drummer friend Thomas Pickerell, named on the title page as “Some Drummer,” and the title was a play on a British term for youngsters misbehaving, on a British cocktail and on their names. Naming a drummer friend on the title page turns a printed rag into a small record of a friendship. A rag and a song issued in the same year show a musician working across several kinds of printed music. Rag La Joie, released by Stark in 1918 with recycled cover art, is immediately more advanced in construction than Tom and Jerry Rag, but it had an uphill climb, coming out before the end of the war and while jazz was overspreading the nation. A more advanced piece arriving as jazz spread suggests that timing mattered as much as construction. In the late 1920s he was increasingly active on St. Louis radio as an accompanist for singers on the air, and he also did some recitals and helped design the new WIL studio to suit musical broadcasting. In 1930 he had his own show, Around the Organ with Jerry Cammack; in the late 1940s he provided music for the radio version of Truth or Consequences; and he played Hammond organs. Radio, theatre, circus and ragtime together make a working musician’s career a patchwork of venues rather than one stage. According to Billboard, he played the calliope for the Disney Circus at Disneyland in 1955; in the mid-1950s he also had his own orchestra with the drummer Frank “Pancho” Roche. A circus calliope in the mid-1950s sits far from the rags of his early years, a wide span for one musician.
Browse piano sheets by Jerry Cammack on Zen Virtual Piano.
Jeremiah Ward “Jerre” Cammack (10 September 1890 to 20 January 1963) was born in or near Marion, Indiana, the oldest child of his family, and by 1913 he was well ensconced in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he would be based for the rest of his life. The 1920 census enumeration showed him working as a musician, and the city directory placed him at the Columbia Theater on Gravois Avenue. Noting a musician’s workplace by its street and its theatre sets his career in a particular neighbourhood of a particular city.
He first had Tom and Jerry Rag published in 1913 by the Saint Louis Publishing Company, possibly his own imprint, and that same year, under the label of Jerry Cammack, he issued the song “You Can Paddle and Paddle In Your Own Canoe, Cause I’ve Got Me An Airship Now,” composed by Jack Pittman. The “Tom” of the title was his drummer friend Thomas Pickerell, named on the title page as “Some Drummer,” and the title was a play on a British term for youngsters misbehaving, on a British cocktail and on their names. Naming a drummer friend on the title page turns a printed rag into a small record of a friendship. A rag and a song issued in the same year show a musician working across several kinds of printed music.
Rag La Joie, released by Stark in 1918 with recycled cover art, is immediately more advanced in construction than Tom and Jerry Rag, but it had an uphill climb, coming out before the end of the war and while jazz was overspreading the nation. A more advanced piece arriving as jazz spread suggests that timing mattered as much as construction.
In the late 1920s he was increasingly active on St. Louis radio as an accompanist for singers on the air, and he also did some recitals and helped design the new WIL studio to suit musical broadcasting. In 1930 he had his own show, Around the Organ with Jerry Cammack; in the late 1940s he provided music for the radio version of Truth or Consequences; and he played Hammond organs. Radio, theatre, circus and ragtime together make a working musician’s career a patchwork of venues rather than one stage. According to Billboard, he played the calliope for the Disney Circus at Disneyland in 1955; in the mid-1950s he also had his own orchestra with the drummer Frank “Pancho” Roche. A circus calliope in the mid-1950s sits far from the rags of his early years, a wide span for one musician.
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Tom and Jerry Rag, first published in 1913 by the Saint Louis Publishing Company, and Rag La Joie, released by Stark in 1918.
His drummer friend Thomas Pickerell, named on the title page as “Some Drummer.” The title played on a British term for misbehaving youngsters, on a British cocktail and on their names.
He worked as a theater musician and radio organist in St. Louis, had his own 1930 show Around the Organ with Jerry Cammack, played Hammond organs, and played the calliope for the Disney Circus at Disneyland in 1955.