12th Street Rag

"12th Street Rag" is a 1914 ragtime piece by Euday L. Bowman, named after 12th Street in Kansas City. This page has the 12th Street Rag chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "12th Street Rag"

Euday L. Bowman wrote it and published it himself in 1914. It became one of the most recorded rags; Pee Wee Hunt's 1948 version sold millions of copies.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (1927).
• Pee Wee Hunt (Capitol, 1948).