"The Ragtime Soldier Man" is a World War I era song released in 1912 and 1917. Irving Berlin wrote the lyrics and composed the music, basing it off his 1911 song "Alexander's Ragtime Band".[1][2] The song was published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Co. of New York, New York. Artist Pfeiffer designed the sheet music cover. It features a U.S. soldier holding his rifle and jumping over cannon balls.[3] The song was written for voice and piano.[4]
Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan recorded the song and it was released in 1912 by Victor Records and Columbia Records.[5][6] It was also recorded by Edward Meeker in 1913 for Edison Records.[7]
The sheet music can be found at Pritzker Military Museum & Library.[8]
^"The Ragtime Soldier Man". JScholarship. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
^Vogel, Frederick G. (1995). World War I Songs: A History and Dictionary of Popular American Patriotic Tunes, with Over 300 Complete Lyrics. McFarland & Company. p. 230. ISBN 0-89950-952-5.
^Parker, Bernard S. (2007). World War I Sheet Music. Vol. 2. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 549. ISBN 978-0-7864-2798-7.
^"The ragtime soldier man". Baylor University Digital Collections. Baylor University. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
^"Ragtime soldier man". UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive. 16 November 2005. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
^Kimball, Robert; Emmet, Linda, eds. (2001). The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin. United States: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 55–56. ISBN 0-679-41943-8.
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