Grady, Richard Grant - Nonsense (clearer copy).pdf
Nonsense (1911).MID
Hi Everyone,
Jellyroll, Wow, thanks SO much for posting Some Blues for You All!! I knew you'd post it if you had it, but I didn't know if you would. It's great to be able to cross this
last item off the list which is dated July 6, 1994!
Toby, First of all, thanks for your interest! I'm happy to answer. The pieces were not all chosen for the same reasons. Unless otherwise noted they just sounded interesting musically. This is the original order.
1.) "The Bounding Buck" (1918) Henry Lodge (I really like "Temptation Rag." This piece was later reprinted in a Dover folio.)
2.) "Delirium Tremens Rag" (1913) Frank Henri Klickmann (This was posted by the most generous Jellyroll on this very site!)
3.) "Fred Heltman's Rag" (1918) by Fred Heltman (I live close to Heltman's old offices, and Jasen & Tichenor said he was our area's "leading ragtime composer.)"
4.)
[I'm going to hold off telling what this one is and post it--you inspired me, Toby 
]
5.) "Good Gravy Rag" (1913) Henry Belding
6.)"The Jazz Master" (1925) Billy Mayerl (No, I still didn't have this back then.)
7.) Nonsense: A Ragged Sensation (1911) R. G. Grady (More on this one in a moment...)
8.) Snookums" (1918) Charles L. Johnson (Since published in a folio of all of Johnson's known music.)
9.) "Some Blues for You All" (1916) T. C. Bennett (What a coincidence that this was the last on the list!)
I had a friend named Tom that I met in 1986 who told me early on that his (by then deceased) grandmother (born 1891) used to play piano. I commented that all her sheet music was probably gone and he told me he thought it was still in the family. She'd lived in the family home her whole life and when she died in the 1970's her younger (single) brother, Bill, had moved in. Bill had left everything the way it was and never threw anything away! A couple of weeks later my friend invited me over and showed me the box of music, which Bill had given him. Everything was large format. There were songs, waltzes, syncopated waltzes and a few rags (the last page only of "Temptation Rag" was there). As a gift, Tom gave me one of the intact rags (it was the first original rag I ever had)! It was "Happy Rag" by Richard G. Grady.
Most of Grady's compositions (including "Happy Rag") are mediocre (or a little better) but he had one GREAT rag called "Nonsense" (he renewed the copyright on it in 1938). This is the only Grady rag Jasen & Tichenor mention (which is why it made my list). I sent a scan of "Nonsense" to Ben Intartaglia who posted it on this site. Through no fault of Ben's, the scan is somewhat blurred. I sent this to Ben so long ago that we were both on dialup. When I'd send him scans (it had to be a page at a time) it would fill up his E-mailbox and he couldn't receive any mail! I had to really decrease the quality and that's what Ben posted. I have the original scans so I'm going to repost this clearer copy which also includes the cover (from an Ebay posting years back) along with my midi. This is one of the fastest tempo midis I have, but I think it works well at that speed (my apologies to Scott Joplin).
BTW, Grady's name was also sometimes written as "Gradi" on sheet music. That may be his actual name with "Grady" being an Americanized version. I obtained his middle name from the copyright records.
Best to all,
Rob
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