Clarence Woods

Given birth to somewhere in Ohio, Clarence Woods was raised in Carthage, Missouri. This place him correct smack in the center of ragtime territory, since it had been. He studied using the same man or woman who offered piano lessons to Wayne Scott. In 1903, Woods released something known as the “Meteor March.” Striking the street and showing up throughout Oklahoma and Tx like a noticeably able pianist, Clarence discovered employment associated silent films and vaudeville entertainers. His “Slippery Elm Rag” was released out of Dallas in 1912. In the January 1917 problem of The Ragtime Review, an incidental and relatively hyperbolic explanation survives as this tantalizing shred of paperwork: “An Austin, Tx paper gets the following to state of a previous Carthage, Missouri young man: Clarence Woods, the brand new pianist in the Majestic, is named the ‘Ragtime Question from the South’ and well should get that name because he simply makes that piano chat.” In 1918, Emil and Isadore Seidel released two figures by Clarence Woods: “Graveyard Blues” as well as the “Sleepy Hollow Rag,” which is known as to become his absolute best good article. This rag, was called after a predominately Afro-American community existing along the banking institutions from the Planting season River, seems to include a premonition of Walter Donaldson’s strike of 1928, “Makin’ Whoopee.” Woods made up a small number of additional tunes, performed on the air and fronted an orchestra. Through the entire ’40s and early ’50s, Woods made up material specifically customized towards the presentational requirements from the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. The final time anyone noticed him in public areas he was pounding apart on the vapor calliope. Clarence Woods passed on on Sept 30, 1956.