Annotation:St. Louis Tickle
X:1 T:St Louis Tickle N:From the playing of the Humphries Brothers (Texas) C:Theron C. Bennett (1904), written under the pseudonym C:Barney & Seymour. N:The tune celebrated the St. Louis Exposition. "Immensely popular with N:contemporary pianists St. Louis Tickle has become an evergreen standard N:recorded right up to the present day. Its popularity rests not only its bright N:infectious strains but perhaps also on the notoriety of the B-strain said to N:have been derived from Funky Butt, whose vulgar lyrics delighted street N:urchins and young men about town alike." M:C| L:1/8 D:OKeh 45464 (78 RPM), The Humphries Brothers (1930) D:Victor 16092-B (78 RPM), The Ossman-Dudley Trio (1906) D: D:https://www.slippery-hill.com/recording/saint-louis-tickle Z:Transcribed by Andrew Kuntz K:C e^ded eded|ea-ae g2AB|cBcB cBcB|cefc e2 (3ABc| dcde- ed e2|^f2de- ee-f2|1g2 ba g2f2:|2 g6|| ef|g2g2^f2f2|=ff- f(g/f/) e3((3A/B/c/|d)cAd- dcAc|edec - c2((3A/B/c/)| dcAd- dcA2|G2Ac- cde2|1,3d2e^f- fed2|[B6g6]:|2,4 d2AB- BAG2|[E6c6]|| |:(3dcA|B2B2B2B2|BB2B- BBBA|c2c2c2c2|cc-cc- cccA| B2B2B2B2|BB2B- BBBA|c2c2c2c2|cc-cc- cccB| AGAB cBcd|edeg- gfed|A2AB- BAG2|[E6c6]:|
ST. LOUIS TICKLE. American, Ragtime (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). See also the stylistically similar “Georgia Stomp.”
