Composer:	J.S. Scott	Suppliers:
Editor:	Geoff Grainger	Sextet	D/A/T/T/B/GB(B)
Publisher:	Ditty Box Enterprises	Publication:	DBE 126

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Length: approx. 4 mins.
As warrants its title and as can be discerned on the front cover of the original sheet music, Ragtime Oriole is indeed a happy, burbling rag with decidedly avian strains in AABBACCDDA form. For my taste it represents one of the best Scott rags - highly enjoyable for performers and audiences alike!
Not being terribly up on my feathered zoology I cannot make out whether the illustrated little crochet emitting creature is an Old World bird of the family Oriolidae many of which have brightly coloured plumage or whether it is a New World bird of the genus Icterus of which everybody knows that it is also similarly coloured and related to the grackles. Now grackles ..... oh, forget it!
Ragtime Oriole was published by Stark Music Co, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
A tempo of 86 crotchets/min. is suggested.