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 Top Liner (1916)
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Composer:Lamb (1887-1960)   Suppliers: Ditty Box Enterprises
Editor:Geoff Grainger  Sextet:Descant/Treble/Tenor/Tenor/Bass/Great Bass(Bass)
Publisher:Ditty Box Enterprises  Publication:DBE 079
Audio:Listen. Sequencer: Colin MacDonaldListen. Artist: Midi Ragtime Recorder Ensemble Audio file information  

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Look and ListenLength: approx. 4 mins.
Top Liner was one Lamb's final rags to be published at the end of the ragtime era. This is another classic ragtime composition which lends itself splendidly to adaptation for the recorder. It is an easy-flowing piece, a joy to listen to, but certainly not the easiest for recorder players to perform with much melodic overflow through three voices and close harmony sections between the 2nd and 3rd voices. Great stuff!
Top Liner was published by Stark Music Co, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

"Top Liner (1916)" has been recorded by:
CD tracks/info Dave Jasen on "Rompin' Stompin' Ragtime" amazon.com amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr amazon.ca
CD tracks/info Scott Kirby on "Grace & Beauty: Ragtime Classics" amazon.com amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr amazon.ca
CD tracks/info Max Morath on "The World of Scott Joplin Vol. 1" amazon.com amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr amazon.ca
CD tracks/info Guido Nielsen on "Complete Stark Rags of Joseph F. Lamb" amazon.com amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr amazon.ca
CD tracks/info  Joshua Rifkin on "Rags & Tangos" amazon.com amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr amazon.ca
CD tracks/info Wally Rose on "Rags Blues Joys" amazon.com amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr amazon.ca
CD tracks/info Wally Rose on "Ragtime Classics" amazon.com amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr amazon.ca
CD tracks/info Jazzou Jones on "Hilarity" amazon.com amazon.de amazon.fr
CD tracks/info Scott Kirby on "Centennial Sampler: Vol. 1" amazon.com amazon.de amazon.fr
CD tracks/info Joan Reynolds on "Deep Hollow" amazon.co.uk amazon.de amazon.fr
CD tracks/info Various Artists on "Ragtime Hard To Find Classics" amazon.com
CD tracks/info Various Artists on "Ragtime Piano Unsung Heroes: The Best Of Joseph Lamb" amazon.com
CD tracks/info Various Artists on "Ragtime: The World's Greatest Ragtime Album" amazon.com
CD tracks/info Isaiah White on "Joseph Lamb: A Ragtime Companion" amazon.com
CD tracks/info "Perfessor" Bill Edwards on "Rags of Grace and Beauty"