Charley Straight

Charles Theodore “Charley” Straight (January 16, 1891 – September 22, 1940) During the 1920s, Straight worked with Roy Bargy on the latter’s eight Piano Syncopations. In describing “Rufenreddy”, the fifth in the series, the ragtime historian “Perfessor” Bill Edwards stated: :The actual parentage of this piece will likely remain obscured to some degree, since Bargy’s collaborator, Charley Straight, more or less may have let Bargy take credit when the piano rolls of the Eight Piano Syncopations were transcribed into sheet music form. It is likely that Straight wrote the bulk of the composition in 1918, and Bargy added many of his individual touches to it in the performance, the end result being that there is some of each of them within. Straight died in Chicago on the evening of September 22, 1940, after being struck by a car. See also *List of ragtime composers References Sources * External links * * “Work-in-progress YouTube playlist of recordings and piano rolls made by Charley Straight” * Charley Straight recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.