Scott Joplin Movie Dueling Pianos Competition Scene - 1977
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This is the best clip in the movie Scott Joplin (1977) by Universal Studios. It depicts a competition between "professors" (brothel pianists) to win $100 from John Stark in Sedalia, Missouri. Louis Chauvin, who is a better pianist but can't read/write music, teams up with Joplin and unleashes Maple Leaf Rag upon the public for the first time (this did not actually occur.) You cannot buy this movie anywhere except terrible VHS non-original copies on Amazon and searching Google for the same terrible copies. Dick Hyman is playing the soundtrack and Billy Dee Williams is portraying Scott Joplin. Please contact Universal and encourage them to release a high quality DVD and/or streaming versions of this good, but historically inaccurate, movie!
I have done my best to try to clean the sound up using Audacity, but it's still a bit crackly. - Hudba
Epic Rag Battles of History!!!
sonat soonat i see what you did there
WhiskeyDelta-40 Clever...
Ahaha I get ut
Bruh
Now i know how the word rap was made
If only presidential debates were carried out in this manner
HA HA!!! The country would be better for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrWubbles Lol
well nowadays it would be a Rap battle right?? i think thats pretty fare...After all they should know how to debate with a lit bit of Style. I bet Mc Killary would drop some bombs...
MrWubbles That would be weird
Just seeing Donald Trump walk up to a piano and start playing the Weeping Willow Rag
Blue Deva I don't know, Crazy Old Lady Rag might not appeal to a lot of people.
Not to hate on rap battles or anything, but, somebody, please bring this shit back, and bring it back to every café/bar in the world! D:
Talk that talk
Talk that talk
There is a piano dueling bar in my town.
Zach Seuser
That's awesome :D
Tim Cools. Maybe a few years later and you will see me playing in Starbucks
"What key? What key?" Every guitar player I've played with.
En Japonés Con Rafy
Maestro que interesante verlo en este lugar !!😁😮
hiro kobayashi Saludos!
En Japonés Con Rafy
Maestro espero con ansias sus próximos vídeos.😁 .
Espero me ayude a salir del hueco en el que acabo de caer del japones ..😁
*LOL* XD
Then you got lucky. Most guitar "players" seldom know anything about keys or music theory.
He really just played some chords, with his whole entire fucking body against a man missing an arm.
Scott Joplin and ragtime are such an underrated part of musical history. Imagine being in the Maple Leaf club and hearing this masterpiece for the first time just like at 4:55. Would love seeing more dueling pianos at bars today
I am learning it now!
"what key? what key?!" killed me :D
The written music I learned it in was "Ab".
A flat is the best.
BrianDMS nice pfp
lol just developed perfect pitch
‘What you doing on them keys?’ 😂
5:06 - Now *_THAT_* is class!! You got beat but you still have respect for the person that beat you.
6:36 As the expression on his face!
these were some classy times
Jahun Koo when white people beat the shit out of blacks?
ᶘoᴥoᶅ Wrong
Lorenzo Koenig then?
There's always that killjoy acknowledging that one negative aspect of an overall better time.
Yoshi3000 Better for who? Stop being a sociopath and try some empathy for the plight of others for a change.
This is one of the most entertaining videos of the internet.
Is that a pun?
@@pianohelper8873 Lol didn't even realize
Guess they were "The Entertainers"
4:55 - literally me when i start playing good old Maple Leaf Rag in front of my friends.
lmao
At 3:34, Joplin is playing a modified version of Joplin's Elite Syncopations, and at 4:16 he plays Poet and the Peasant - Overture
thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthank thank you.
What about at 5:11?
+Somsak Jirakhajonkul 5:11 is "Maple Leaf Rag"
Are you sure? I can't find the connection. Is it 3x the speed or something?
Thanks for informing us. I have seen serveral people trying to figure that out.
Furens9 As for the part at 3:34, I don't recognize it, but the part at 4:16 definitely IS from the middle part of Poet and Peasant Overture. Perhaps someone else can confirm what is at 3:34?
Scott Joplin: the first black musician taken seriously as a composer.
Janis Joplin: the first famous white blues singer.
It's the name I tell you.
A similar analogy could be made between Art Tatum (best black pianist) and Channing Tatum (best white actor?).
Santosificationable LMFAOOOOOO
Self proclaimed...Joplin..appropriation
TnseWlms hmmm...
As a pianist with an interest in ragtime, regardless of historical inaccuracy, this scene is incredible!
What's the inaccuracy?
@@aileenj This scene never happened, this is not how Joplin presented the Maple Leaf. He most likely presented it at the Chicago World Fair or The Maple Leaf Club, and it was himself, not his friend, as it is in this clip. Still a super cool concept and sounds amazing.
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." Yes, this fictitious scene is the best part of the movie. I wish a clean version were available on DVD.
Update -- I bought the DVD. :)
That's great dude :)
almost 5 years have passed. Still, the song at 3:30 remains a mystery to this world
+Joaquin G. Manalo Indeed, I would do anything for the last melody music sheet, I know it's maple leaf rag and some other songs.
+Joaquin G. Manalo some Tiger Rag I guess, while he's jumping with all of his body in the piano
shazam it maybe?
It's a improvised version of an excerpt of poet and pheasant overture.
39 years, actually
4:44 best part. he released his creation to the world through his friend.
i wanna know which music is this lol
@@jjjj4075 the piece is poet and peasant - overture
@@jjjj4075 it's maple leaf rag
@Joseph Deluna I believe Scott Joplin wasnt as much a performer as his friend
Joplin composed the songs, his friend played them
I think his friend was that knowledgeable in music theory, but darn could he play piano
Scott Joplin is the greatest American composer of our entire history. Period. Sublime and haunting melody which once he grabs you with, you can NOT forget. How I love this music.
I'd rank him as #2 or #3 ever. Beethoven is unmatched, and even though I'd choose Joplin over Tchaikovsky, either one could be #2 or #3. Probably Brian Wilson after and maybe John Williams or Little Richard #5.
@@SconnerStudios what are you waffling about
@@SconnerStudios he said american
@@kasajizo8963 His influence basically created Jazz and Swing, which would sprout out to Rock music, which then would sprout into hip-hop. So if you listen to Jazz, Swing, rock, or hip-hop, you should appreciate and thank Scott Joplin for his work. It's just a shame he died so young, he had so much potential. Even wrote an actual opera on top of pioneering ragtime.
Beethoven was the first person to truly make music emotional, though. He broke the mold of making music about something and not just "happy happy happy" music for wealthy European elites.
@@andrewjacobs6576 then for American composers I would say no doubt Joplin. Though Joplin shouldn't get all the credit, as slave songs heavily influenced him and later genres. But there was no single slave composer, it was obviously something created by probably thousands of slaves across the hemisphere over centuries. Joplin understood and harnessed influence of their music for the first time, though.
This is literally the great great grandfather of Rap and Hip Hop.
Hahahaha And Jazz
yep. much respect to him.
Son of slave music, though. All music in America has origins in slave songs. The only genre that doesn't is some types of classical, which obviously comes from Europe. But rock, country, soul, hip hop, dance, everything else is from black culture.
This is fantastic! I love ragtime. Scott Joplin was a genius
And over 48 years later look how much entertainment has changed
Jake Roth It was the Maple Leaf Rag not Entertainer
Orphan Racer So funny I forgot to laugh.
Actually this was a movie to show the time of Scott Joplin which was in 1902, and it IS called "The Entertainer" idiots.
+christian baroya I thought so... came out in the wake of The STing and all the popularity it caused for ragtime and Scott Joplin... they rushed it out that's why it's not so great.
+Thomas Nielsen no dude. If it was a 100 years ago it'd be 2077 right now.
that maple leaf rag transition was smooth af
I didnt know Lando was so good at piano lol
+wolfmanwill COLT 45, it works everytime!
He is good! Piano must be made of "mahogany " :)
He won it from Han in a card game.
devils1trusaxon all he need was a can of colt 45.
I saw this clip at my music class.. even before watching Empire Strikes Back. so first time I saw Lando on that movie I was like 'why Scott Joplin's here?'
Hahahahahahaha.
Noice
10 years and i still come back every once and awhile to listen to this
4:57 I love how Joplin's opponent is just vibin' out while playin one of the best rags in the world
His face when he starts Maple Leaf is so funny to me.
My daughter heard Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" and in her third year on the piano at age 10, sat down daily for hours and began to learn the adult version of The Entertainer . After two months she pretty well had it licked. However, because it took her so darn long to learn it, she didn't want to play it anymore after she nailed it. We love Scott Joplin's piano ragtime tunes. He is like a Black American Mozart of ragtime in our opinion.
Forget 1900 and Secret, this is a real piano-duel.
Im Chinese and I love the way Afro-American speaks it sounds so swing
Hh Bh no racism intended
@@js1.987 We appreciate the compliment!
Ayatollah Blak Martian
RACE RELATIONS 100
The two boys dancing added even more life to the scene, though their time was brief. They deserve more time in front of a camera.
Scott Joplin is such an underrated composer. If not for the movie "The Sting", nobody would know about him. Marvin Hamlish was the genius, who stood for the filmscore.
This gave me full body tingles. My dad used to bang-out the MLR like a badass. He and Mr Joplin would have had good times together. :)
which Star Wars episode was this?
457
+Sour Caustic SW 12: Lando Carlissian strikes black
STAR WARS EPISODE 457: The Joplin Strikes Back
The prequels have terrible piano players.
Han Solo dies.
on 3:30 it sounds like Chopin played ragtime :)
***** well it kinda is supposed to be Joplin, i meant Chopin because that part you can really feel the romanticism in, also the ornamentation is somehow similar for me
***** no he means chopin close to romantic time period. my two fav artists!!!
***** No, Joplin left and had his buddy finish Maple Leaf. Joplin was played Billy Dee Williams (who also played Lando Calrissian)
***** Yes, that was their plan. But this never happened in real life.
***** His buddy (Louis Chauvin) was a better player. Joplin was just the composer of the song. He just leaves so the publisher can hear the song he composed and that louis chauvin played by ear.
the fact that joplin let chauvin doing his sheet and doing a "mash up" is what makes this scene is really cool, it's shows how genius chauvin and how humble joplin was
A Bluesman in those days had to have real showmanship. James Brown learned. Jimi Hendrix learned. Michael Jackson learned it. Pure American.
This six minutes and fifty-two seconds brings me to tears every time.
"Hey, what key you in?"
A sharp minor bitch wazzap
No one even likes that key lol
Mr. Original Nah It's not a bad key I just meant that A Sharp Minor is one of the least used keys. Most times, It's substituted by It's enharmonic, B Flat Minor since it has only five flats.
you should look at music scored for pedal harp - the more flats the better (the open strings have a better sound)
Yeah C-Flat is the "Home" key for the Harp with all the pedals down and it has 7 flats.
Fun fact the old man was actually Eubie Blake and the man lived long enough to witness Joplin himself.
Not to mention his composition came out the same year as Joplins Maple leaf rag 🫡
3:34 Elite Syncopations , 4:17 Dicht und Bauer from Franz Von Suppé and 4:55 is Maple Leaf Rag
3:34 is not elite syncopation, not even one bit of it sound like elite syncopation
Scott Joplin died 100 years ago: April - 01 - 2017. OK-Dreamband recorded two Ragtimes in Memory of Scott: The Entertainer and Clarinet Rag.
Great for a low-budget made-for-TV movie. Hollywood needs to make a better movie about Scott Joplin.
yes, he deserves that at least
yes, he deserves that at least
yes, he deserves that at least
yes, he deserves that at least
Yeah... with John Batiste
Chauvin's facial expressions when he starts MLR are amazing.
what an unknown composer and what a genious SCOTT JOPLIN! for me the best of all times. There won't never be anyone like him...
Scott Joplin is my favorite music. I play many of them all the time!
"Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play Ragtime fast..." Scott Joplin
Music has no rules. Jelly roll Morton came along and destroyed that slow ragtime
Alex Stewart it was somewhat fast to begin with.
nobody hates ragtime more than Joplin fans. Whiny bitches can’t pick a tempo you like. I know it sped up considerably, but I bet you probably think his tempo right when he started playing MLR was too fast. And it was very very moderate, but pissy Joplin fans think they know everything about the ragtime era just because you know one pretentious ass quote about ragtime speed
@@_Synthronix_ Yeah, you can't play slow. We get it.
@@_Synthronix_ Nothing wrong with fast rags, it's just that Joplin's weren't. So, the tempo was right when he started Maple Leaf, and then sped up a fair bit. It's not whiny to point out that the performer didn't follow the composer's directions
when Eubie Blake comes up, @1:20 turns your glass over and tell you "You're done"... baby, you're done!
Bugsy Cline Eubie was a treasure.
4:08 “Whachyu doin’ on em keys!?”💀💀
LMAOOOO
I wish Scott Joplin still a live
Same!
It would be cool but he would have to be 155 lol
This scene refuses to get old :)
My entrée into music appreciation as a kid was Scott Joplin's music used in the movie The Sting. I used my allowance money to buy the soundtrack on 4 track tape. Later I bought several discs of ragtime. I watched this movie in its original broadcast and then again in a midnight showing on tv. The subject matter was rather trying for a twelve year old, both Joplin and his friend getting syphilis from prostitutes. But I loved it nonetheless. Thanks for posting this and bringing me back to my first love.
I don't know but 3:47 gives me extreme chills :D
yeah it sounds so graceful.
“What you doin’ on them keys?”
واحدة من أعظم معارك البيانو
شاهدت هذا الفيديو قبل 10 سنوات يعيد لي الذكرايات
whoa! we should thank the cameraman for going back in time for this wonderful moment.
I don't know how and why but the magic in this video let me watch this through the whole 7 minutes and not one second I was bored
Great scene and greatly underrated movie about a genus of an original American art form.
Has there ever been a musical based on this man's life?
Briefly mentioned in the "ragtime"😭 he must have his own!
Nothing gets more epic than this
Unbelievable good playing
Thanks for posting! My Momma raised me on this great music!
Joplin would HATE this performance of the MLR. Way too fast. He gave specific instructions about the speed of ragtime.
But it's still a great scene.
yeah it is kinda supposed to be in ragtime march @joeo and lazlosplane :S
Who cares about Scott Joplin opinion ? An author is not necessarily the best player of his own works. Personally I don't like very much his original recording, too "music box". But still a great author.
Philippe Durand mon dieu! :O
Philippe Durand Finally someone who isn't stuck in tradition when it comes to piano music. Most people say you're supposed to play it like the author would.
Man, although I love hearing these fellas play I'm pretty sure Tom Brier would kick all their asses in a ragtime piano duel.
Tom plays it too fast aswell
His was all one piano player, specifically, Dick Hyman. He was a virtuoso in the 70s. What a horrible name, though!
@@MrJJoshson against scot joplin oh hell nah
True lol
@S R won't deny that. As a show for people to watch it's no fun if the players don't match up well. In a sense a bit like one punch man, where the dissonance is so big that you can't really call it a proper duel. Brier would either go too far and his opponent wouldn't be able to follow nicely or he wouldn't play with all his heart and it wouldn't be right, sorta. People would know he could do more. He did play a lot with people though, but that doesn't necessarily mean he might be good in a duel regardless of what I think.
What a beautiful time this was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Underrated movie about an underrated composer. While the film is not entirely accurate, the way "Lando Calrissian" plays this legendary composer is quite spot-on, in my opinion. Of course, this is partly because Scott Joplin is one of my favorite piano composers.
That transition at 4:50 was clean af 👌 🔥
Billie Dee Williams lookin fine even before the Cloud City
😍👍
I looooove ragtime. I am going to watch this movie on netflix and then buy it. Thank you so much for posting.
Sound quality is fine by my ears. Brilliant.
The most memorable scene ever in Rag history!!!!!!
Das währe was für die Bars heute 👍
Sicherlich
This is absolutely fantastic, thank you for sharing!
That was inspiring, wonderful and lots of other praising adjectives. Thank you so very much.
shit got real when the opponent started playing his own piece
Girl: What kind of fights do you like?
Me:*its complicated*
This was, and still is one of favorite tv movies I watched as a kid...you gotta figure out that this film got produced because of the interest generated in Joplin's music after "The Sting" (1973) was released in theaters. Movies with dueling banjos or dueling pianos are great...right??? Haha. This scene is superb in depicting Joplin's modus operandi of making modulations (i.e., changes-of-key) within his compositions.
Joplin's music is a gift to us... I'm practicing the Entertainer, Maple Leaf Rag & Original Rag at this time... hard but such a pleasure to play right (not too fast as the author said?)
I was thinking, "put a moustache on that guy and it could be Lando" Then it hit me xD
It is lando
when he dropped the maple leaf rag the world was never the fucking same
Thanks for this, great performances and highly enjoyable.
Love every pianist in this video. So good
So much class... look at the people today... Can somebody please rent me a time machine... You can find it in a museum afterwards again... thanks...
Soooooo.... do you play piano? You can do it too, after years of study and practice! But that's what it takes... and anyone can play piano, if they have a good teacher, and put in the time and effort and hours of practicing....
The last piano play reminds me of Oscar Peterson. R.I.P Oscar .P the great Jazz pianist for your music will still live for ever.
Tnx for this upload.. and for pusuading Universal to release it in HD.
Scoot Joplin was a nice intelligent good guy extremely renowned
I guess y’all don’t get it
Louis Chauvin (who won this contest) was the 1st member of the "27 Club". YT Search "27 Club".
@@AClockworkTammy666 OK, thank you. I've seen some "27 Club" videos citing Robert Johnson as the 1st. But, Alexandre Levy probably didn't visit the Crossroads in Clarksdale, MS. (Not that that is the only place to make a deal.)
@@KenPotter Louis Chauvin died omg March 28 1908, form syphilitic-dementia, same way Joplin would die, they died 10 years and two days apart. “Heliotrope Bouquet” was his last piece, he only composed half of it, Joplin composer the second half with chauvin so weak he could only tell him how he wanted the song to sound, by the last 4-5 cords of the song, Chauvin died. Joplin laid The now finished music on his grave with a set of the flowers the song was named after.
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George Lucas: "So Art, remember when I told you about being in Return of the Jedi after you did that Christmas project? Wellllllll, I have something better for you anyways and you'll still be acting with Billy Dee Williams!"
Thank you so much for the clip and the info. Great music!!!
i am watched this 100000 times and it didnt bored me xD
There are three authentic musicians here. Taj Mahal, who is the guy Scott cut, Clifton Davis, who is Scott's friend and who cuts him (He wrote Never Can Say Goodbye) and the contest judge, Eubie Blake.
Interesting! Never knew that Davis wrote this great hit! A real multi-talent!
I wish they woulda had Eubie play.
Isn’t it louis Chauvin
"You trying to beat me?"
"no lol."
Thank you so much. I've searching for this piece for ages
4:26 I love the way he says like “c’mon, f*** off”
Who knew Lando could play the piano.
Ragtime (ragged-time, «tiempo rasgado»), abreviado en
ocasiones como «rag», es un género musical estadounidense que se popularizó a
finales del siglo XIX derivado de la marcha, caracterizado por una melodía
sincopada y un ritmo acentuado en los tiempos impares (primer y tercero). Entre
sus raíces aparecen elementos de marcha en el estilo de John Philip Sousa y de
ritmos provenientes de la música africana.1
Es una de las primeras formas musicales
verdaderamente estadounidenses y una de las influencias en el desarrollo del
jazz.2 Su principal compositor fue Scott Joplin, quien saltó a la fama tras la
publicación en 1899 del Maple Leaf Rag, el cual, junto con otros éxitos
posteriores, contribuyó a definir la forma conocida como ragtime clásico, con
una armonía, estructura y métrica particular, en contraste con las formas más
primitivas de ragtime caracterizadas por una mayor flexibilidad
I love ragtime so much, it’s the main genre I play on the piano, there’s just nothing like it
you can see how complex and unrated genius,..Scott Joplin music ,. is ... anyone who is a musician would know that this a very HARD and difficult to play ... Joplin had a amazing talent i wish people would appreciate his more,.. his music ,.. black history month i celebrate of genius Joplin music
I'm changing the key. Pray I don't change it again.
Billy Dee Williams has more rhythm in his elbow than most people have.
I'm learning the maple leaf rag and hearing the switch to rag time here is really helping me get into it. Although I'm struggling a lot with the part he starts with in this video. Terrific video. Thanks for sharing
That section is really tricky Mike slow it down, hands separately then put it together. Don't give up, you'll get it :)
Got er down pat now, only the last two sections to go!
Amazing that Joplin was awarded a posthumous Oscar for the soundtrack of The Sting!
I believe that the Oscar was actually given to Marvin Hamlish for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation, not to Joplin.