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This late Famous Studio's Screen Song varies the format a touch. Instead of having a series of blackout gags on a theme, it beins with a concert hall performance -- by cartoon animals, of course -- of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. This is soon sabotaged into a swingy version and we get to hear and sing Irving Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band."Although not Berlin's first hit it's certainly one he is well remembered for. Producers didn't care for it, for various reasons; it ws too long, it was too complicate,d it wasn't a rag..... but. Emma Carus did, and introduced it on April 18, 1911, at the American Music Hall in Chicago, and toured the Midwest with it.
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