Tom Brier Karaoke: Hindustan
147Tom played this with Julia Riley on flute and the late Kitty Wilson on washboard on April 13, 2008, during a concert in Sutter Creek, California. The piano he was playing was a recording piano that captured his performances. I have the raw MIDI files and intend to clean them up so that Julia or others can "play with Tom" once again. Here is the first cleaned-up file, played on my Knabe console piano with PianoDisc playback system.
As Tom was playing accompaniment in most of these performances, he isn't taking the melody except during piano solos. So, to present them to you, I decided it would be fun to put up the original sheet music so you can read the melody and lyrics. Now you can play with Tom accompanying you! You could try to sing it, but this is at dance-band tempo so the verse may be tricky. Thus this is more of an instrumental karaoke than a singing karaoke!
Download the sheet music as PDF from here http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SheetMusic/id/5525 or here https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100009691/
Hear recordings of this piece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKy9LVVZJWI (dance band recording from 1918)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjvA43cGR7c (song version recording from 1918)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQab2s2hn0 (The Raspberry Jam Band with Tom on piano, recorded 2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCMBpQp9pmg (a period piano roll, played at song tempo).
Song is by Oliver G. Wallace and Harold Weeks, published in 1918.