1953 Liberace - 12th Street Rag

A rapid-fingered treatment of the pre-WWI ragtime standard which was one of the keyboard virtuoso’s most popular featured numbers. Here’s a YouTube video of Liberace performing it in a (purportedly 1943) film clip, long before his rise to fame in the ‘50s: 1954 Pop Chart Peak: Cash Box 33 Audio from CD source, original single issued on Columbia 40217 - 12th Street Rag (Bowman) by Liberace, orchestra conducted by George Liberace, recorded c. November 1953