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Thread #172490 Message #4175264
Posted By: Thomas Stern
22-Jun-23 - 10:20 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Max Morath (1926-2023)
Subject: RE: Obit: Max Morath (1926-2023)
So sorry to hear this. May he rest in peace!
I've enjoyed his work over the years - he did an amazing
series for public television in the early years, including
a program on the popular songs of WWI.
His earliest recordings on the GOLD CAMP label.
Many records for VANGUARD.
If anyone is interested I can list others.
GOLD CAMP:
October 1, 1926
biographical information from liner:
great grandfather - PALMER climbed Pikes Peak in 1876
grandfather - on Cripple Creak board of trade
father - Fred, founder AdAmAn Club, annual New Year's Eve climb Pikes Peak
mother - Glad, Society editor, Colorado Springs Gazette,
played piano for silent films, Princess Theater, Colorado Springs
1944 graduated High School
KVOR announcer
influenced to play piano Dean Elliott
1948 A.B. degree, English, Colorado College
Stanford - study Television ???
made records in Texas ???
Actor with ORVIS GROUT's CIVIC PLAYERS
married Norma Loy (Imperial Hotel acting company 1953-54)
daughter c.1955 KATHY
From 1959 to 1961 Morath wrote, performed, and co-produced 26 half-hour television programs for PBS, then NET (National Educational Television). The programs were produced by Rocky Mountain PBS in Denver (then known as KRMA Channel 6) and were fed nationally to the public broadcasting network.
GOLD CAMP RECORDINGS RMM-1001/1002 10" LP 5/51 RED jacket, green translucent vinyl
[Box 592, Manitou Springs, Colorado] 45rpm EP ???
liner: Marshall Sprague
Cover design by Herman Raymond
MAX MORATH plays and sings at the Gold Bar Boom Piano
IMPERIAL HOTEL CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO
liner Marshall Sprague
Geo.Marvin, traps
RMM-1001
Imperial Rag (Morath)
I Love Girls (Dodd)
The Sunshine of Paradise Alley (Bratton-Ford)
Row, Row, Row (Jerome-Monaco)
Original Rag (Joplin)
RMM-1002
Bird in a Gilded Cage (Von Tilzer-Lamb)
Why Do They Always Say "No" (Nelson-Pease-Davis)
Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)
He'd Have To Get Under (Leslie-Clarke-Abrahams)
Comrades (McGlennon)
GOLD CAMP RECORDINGS KCMS-1091/1092 10" LP 4/56 YELLOW jacket, yellow translucent vinyl
* 45rpm extended play
Volume II, summer 1956
KCMS-1091
Gold Bar Rag (Morath) *
Take Back Your Gold (Pritxkow-Rosenfeld)
Come After Breakfast (Smith-Burris)
Sweet Georgia Brown (Casey-Bernie-Pinkard) *
KCMS-1092
Hard-Hearted Hannah *
Gay Nineties Medley
The Sidewalks of New York
The Band Played On
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Take Your Girlie To The Movies (Wendling-Leslie-Kalmar)
I Love Girls (Dodd) *
GOLD CAMP RECORDINGS KCMS 1129/1130 [FPA 5/57] LP 1957 yellow vinyl
* Available also on 45 rpm extended play
MAX MORATH plays and sings at the mighty gold bar piano
Imperial Hotel, Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1957
liner: Marshall Sprague
recording info C.M."Bud" Edmonds
Cover Design by Don Willis
Side I
Lies (Harry Barris)
Ace in the Hole (Dempsey, Mitchell) *
Row Row Row (Jerome, Monaco)
How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? (Donaldson, Lewis, Young)
Gold Bar Rag (Morath)
Tearjerker" Medley:
She May Have Seen Better Days
When the Garden of Roses Has Turned into Thorns
She is More to be Pitied Than Censured
A Bird in a Gilded Cage (H.Von Tilzer, Lamb)
SIDE II
Wang Wang Blues (Mueller. Johnson, Busse)
Bedelia (I Wanna Steal Ya) Jerome, Schwartz) *
Take Back Your Gold (Rosenfeld, Pritzkow) *
Spaghetti Rag (Lyons, Yosco)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Norworth, A. Von Tilzer) *
The Curse of an Aching Heart (Fink, Piantadosi)
Music for the Melodrama (Morath).
DOES ANYONE HAVE THE FOLLOWING RECORDING on the "San Francisco Records" label ???????????????????
Billboard Mar 2, 1957
MUSIC FOR MOOCHERS, GOLD DIGGERS, AND CATTLE RUSTLERS
Talking Machine TM-4
This is an engaging-and satirical-
package reproducing the saloon music
of the Gay Nineties-Western style,
Max Morath, who pounds the mighty
Gold Bar Pianola at the Imperial
Hotel, Cripple Creek, Colo., was re-
corded in all his tinny and enthusiastic
glory with portable equipment.
The tunes-like "Take Back Your
Gold," "Curse of an Aching Heart,"
etc.-are interspersed with hiccups of
the beery listeners and lusty conversa-
tion of gay ladies. A novelty pack-
age. Moderate sales indicated.
TALKING MACHINE TM4 Music for Moochers, Gold Diggers and Cattle Rustlers LP 1957
BARBARY COAST SLP/BC-33004 Moochers, Gold Diggers and Cattle Rustlers LP 1959, 1960
Max Morath, mighty Gold Bar pianola, Imperial Hotel, Colorado Springs.
liner: Marshall Sprague & Al Levitt
cover design Don Willis
recorded by Bud Edmonds, owner operator KCMS-FM Manitou Springs, Colorado
A1 Gold Bar Rag
A2 Take Back Your Gold
A3 Spaghetti Rag
A4 Memories
A5 How You Gonna Keep 'em Down On The Farm
A6 Lies
A7 Medley: Sidewalks of New York ; And the band played on ; Sweet Rosie O'Grady
B1 Curse of An Aching Heart
B2 Twelfth Street Rag LABEL: Tiger Rag
B3 Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
B4 Bird in a Gilded Cage
B5 Sitting On Top of the World
B6 Wang Wang Blues
B7 Silent Movie
GOLD CAMP RECORDINGS KCMS-1147/1148 LP 1958
* available on 45 rpm extended play
HONKY-TONK IN HI-FI ""Max's 4th ragtime record""
Imperial Hotel Cripple Creek, Colorado
MAX MORATH at the Gold Bar Room piano.
liner notes: Marshall Sprague
KCMS 1147
I Want a Doll *
The Vindicator Rag *
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
Joe Howard Medley
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now?
Goodbye, My Lady Love
Honeymoon
Hello, Ma Baby
Raw Gin
When the Saints Go Marching In
KCMS 1148
Dill Pickles Rag *
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? *
Waltzes You May Have Forgotten
Mother Was a Lady
Little Annie Rooney
Sunbonnet Sue
Cheyenne (Shy Ann)
Maple Leaf Rag
Peoria
GOLD CAMP KCMS 1168/1169 LP 1959
For the 1959 Imperial Hotel Melodrama Season Gold Camp Recordings proudly present
MORE MAX MORATH
KCMS 1168
St.Louis BLues
Much Obliged To You
Saloon
The Anatomy of the Tearjerker
Crazy Bone Rag
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
KCMS 1169
Oceana Roll
Come after breakfast, bring your own lunch
Grace and Beauty Rag
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Waltzes that Willy undoubtedly waltzed to
Car-Barlick Acid
Thomas.