Jo Ann Castle plays "Dill Pickles Rag" @omar

Uploaded August 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 minutes ago

Footage courtesy Chris Pikal (You can find his Lawrence Welk channal with more clips of Jo Ann playing here: youtube.com/channel/UCZOhHeMV1X2j0t7XsuXOl3g ). Jo Ann Castle was a honky-tonk and ragtime pianist on the Lawrence Welk show, appearing weekly between 1959 and 1969. Here she is on the January 9th, 1960 show to play Charles L. Johnson's classic 1906 rag, "Dill Pickles". If you want to learn more about Jo Ann, I wrote an in depth blog about her which you can find here: thatraggedyragtime.blogspot.com/2019/01/jo-ann-castle-icon-of-50s-revival-and.html

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