Ragtime Annie

The earliest record of the tune is Eck Robertson's 1923 recording with Henry Gilliland, both Texas fiddlers. It doesn't turn up in older printed collections, and there are stories that Texas fiddlers were playing it around 1900 to 1910, but no proof.

Robertson played three parts, with the third moving to G. Many older Southwest fiddlers did the same, while others learned only two parts, so both ways are right. A 1952 "Raggedy Ann Rag" by Joe "Fingers" Carr came far too late to be the source.