That Bull Frog Rag by George W. Thomas (1917)

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Original listing and sheet music here: https://musescore.com/user/36482158/scores/18429079?from=youtube_share
What a great classic rag this is, coming fairly late in the ragtime period it likely got somewhat overlooked. George W. Thomas (1883-1937) is best remembered as contributing to the style of play that evolved into boogie-woogie, composing most of his scores in the late teens and 20s. This might be the only rag he wrote that got into actual publication, and it's a beauty. It was published by Williams & Piron in New Orleans in 1917.

Original score source was from Walter Cosand at this link (copy/paste as needed):
http://waltercosand.com/CosandScores/Composers%20Q-Z/Thomas
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%20George%20W/That_Bull_Frog_Rag-Thomas.pdf

This is a reproduction of the original score. I've reformatted the score from two pages to four pages for easier reading. In playback, I've ignored the "pp" pianissimo notation because it's barely audible in Musescore. Corrected measure 12 by adding a sharp to the left-hand Fs; at m. 34 changed the LH F-A-Cs to F-A-Ds; at m. 38 added a natural to the final LH F; at 44 & 45 changed the LH top note from G to F.

Thank you to Mitchy for finding and suggesting this great score.

My YouTube channel is here:
https://www.youtube.com/@compukats/featured

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