Thanks to the immense popularity of the 1973 film, THE STING, which featured his music, composer Scott Joplin gained renewed fame for the following decade culminating in the first recording of his opera, “Treemonisha” and a 1977 TV biopic starring Billy Dee Williams as Joplin. A soundtrack album from “Scott Joplin” was released on LP by MCA Records but quickly went out of print. The film’s score included new arrangements of Joplin’s music by the brilliant arranger/pianist Dick Hayman, who went on to record several discs of Joplin piano pieces for RCA. The “Scott Joplin” soundtrack has not been released on CD as of this writing and has been out of print on LP since the 1980s. This download was derived from a DSD archived MCA USA LP in rather distressful condition, typical of the atrocious pressings produced by American record labels in the 1960s & 70s but I was able to clean it up for a quite listenable presentation of the musical content, which, although not as imaginative and sparkling as the Marvin Hamlisch & Gunther Schuller ones for THE STING, offer a more faithful rendering of what Joplin’s music must have sounded like when first heard by audiences in his time. As you may have guessed, I have been on a Scott Joplin/Ragtime kick lately and this is the fourth and final album of this music that I have to offer for your (hopeful) enjoyment for the upcoming American Independence Day celebration.

SCOTT JOPLIN (Original Soundtrack from the 1977 Universal-Motown Television Production)
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Many thanks, Joplin was a wonderful composer !!!

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