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		According to his marriage license, Harney was born "onboard a steamer," which might account for the fact that his birthplace is variously mentioned as Louisville, Nashville, and Middlesboro.
		Although he later said that he never heard any Afro-American musicians during these early years, Harney did set words to his melodies in what he described as a "darky dialect" in order to add what he considered to be a style suited to the music.
		For several years, Harney had listened carefully to the music being sung by rural folks in Kentucky, and now he was synthesizing his impressions into a notated, marketable form of stylized entertainment.
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	Ben Harney
		Ben Harney is generally said to have been born in Louisville, Kentucky, although some sources put his birthplaces as Nashville, Tennessee.
		Harney was light skinned with red hair; early in his career he played with African American theater troops, but later in his career he represented himself as white.
		Ben Harney died of a heart attack in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ben Harney
		While Ben Harney unfortunately was neglected by commercial recording studios during his lifetime, in 1925 a folklorist recorded Harney singing an example of an early ragtime song on a dictaphone phonograph cylinder, and this recording has survived.
		Harney was the son of Benjamin Mills Harney, a veteran of both the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, and his second wife Margaret Wellington Draffin, daughter of a prominent Kentucky lawyer.
		While Ben Harney unfortunately was neglected by commercial recording studios during his lifetime, in 1925 a folklorist recorded Harney singing an example of an early rag-blues song on a dictaphone phonograph cylinder, and this recording has survived.
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	Ben Harney - Music Downloads - Online
		According to his marriage license, Harney was born "onboard a steamer," which might account for the fact that his birthplace is variously mentioned as Louisville, Nashville, and Middlesboro.
		For several years, Harney had listened carefully to the music being sung by rural folks in Kentucky, and now he was synthesizing his impressions into a notated, marketable form of stylized entertainment.
		Benjamin Harney endured years of poverty and died of a heart attack in a cheap room in Philadelphia on March 2, 1938.
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	Ben Harney Ret. Lt. Det. Kentucky State Police
		Roll Call: Seems, one of Ben's officers been playing with his holstered gun, the end of the ammo clip has sprung off and bullits ard rolling on the floor.
		Ben said she was a very nice lady.
		Ben the picture was posed and not for real.
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		In an interview with Ben Harney, he noted that instead of being the full-fledged father of ragtime "it would be more correct to speak of him as the father by adoption".
		Harney was besieged by musicians and music publishers for songs and wrote so many that he says he can't remember all of them.
		Ben Harney was popular for the "stick dance" - some of the steps are shown in an Australian newspaper called "The Theatre", dated 1 Feb, 1911.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ben Harney
		Benjamin Robertson "Ben" Harney (6 March, 1872 – 2 March, 1938) was a United States of America songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music.
		Ben Harney is generally said to have been born in Louisville, Kentucky.
		Harney toured widely on the Vaudeville circuits in the USA, as well as tours of theaters in Europe and Asia, Australasia and the South Pacific.
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	Ben Harney at AllExperts
		Harney was the son of Benjamin Mills Harney, a veteran of both the Mexican War and the Civil War, and his second wife Margaret Wellington Draffin, daughter of a prominent Kentucky lawyer.
		Harney toured widely on the Vaudeville circuts in the USA, as well as tours of theaters in Europe and Asia, Australasia and the South Pacific.
		While Ben Harney unfortunately was neglected by commercial recording studios during his lifetime, in 1925 a folklorist recorded Harney singing an example of an early rag-blues song on a dictaphone phonograph cylinder, and this recording has survived.
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	Re: Harney in KY 1800s
		Newspaper articles say that Ben Harney was a native of Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Benjamin Mills Harney and Margaret Wellington Draffin.
		Benjamin R. Harney died in relative poverty, in a rooming house in Philadelphia, at the age of 66, March 2, 1838, from a heart attack.
		Ben R. performed with a fl band, and recently some authors are saying he was fl or of mixed ancestry.
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	Ben Harney - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ben Harney, from cover of 1896 sheet music Ben Harney is generally said to have been born in Louisville,_Kentucky, although some sources put his birthplaces as Nashville,_Tennessee.
		In January of 1896 Ben Harney moved to New_York_City, where he appeared regularly at Tony_Pastor's Music Hall.
		Harney quit touring after suffering from a heart_attack in 1928.
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	Ben Harney grave marker
		The Harney family of Louisville is a very interesting group of people...mathematicians, authors, newspaper publishers, and military officers...the main group of which are interred there in Cave Hill Cemetery.
		Ben and Jessie outlived most of them and were caught in old age by the Great Depression.
		It was said that when Ben Harney took his ragtime to New York City in 1895, a person could hear him performing four blocks away over street noise.
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	The Rag Time Ephemeralist
		Ben Harney is widely considered to have introduced ragtime piano playing to the mainstream theatergoing public.
		Ben R. Harney, a Westerner, introduced a novel act consisting of imitations of negro singing, dancing and piano playing, which is of unusual excellence.
		Ben R. Harney, another stranger at this house, jumped into immediate favor through the medium of his genuinely clever plantation negro imitations and excellent piano playing...
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	The Philly Wire: Ben Harney
		"Benjamin Robertson "Ben" Harney" (6 March, 1871 - 2 March, 1938) was a United States of America songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music.
		Harney's tunes "You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You've Done Broke Down","Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose", and "Cake Walk In The Sky" were big hits in the mid 1890s.
		In January of 1896 ben harney moved to New York City, where...
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	Biography: Ben Harney, 1872-1938 [biography]: The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance
		Others maintained that Harney was a white man so thoroughly inspired by the music played by African-American pianists in Louisville saloons that he assumed their style and made it his own.
		Harney took formal piano lessons in his youth, but he abandoned traditional music for the songs that he heard in the saloons of Louisville.
		Harney later played a world tour, leaving the stage in the early 1920s, when health issues made it impossible for him to continue his career.
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	Bluegrass Messengers
		Ben Harney (1871-1938) version is similar to to Bascom Lamar Lundford’s version (See Version 2) of ‘The Dummy Line.” Both versions take the song back to the late 1800’s or early 1900’s.
		Harney was forced to retire in 1923, after a heart attack, and spent his final years in poverty and declining health in Philadelphia (Blesh, pp.
		Of course, because Harney published his text in 1895 and performed it frequently for the next thirty years, it is quite possible that at least some of the texts recorded by folksong collectors during the early decades of this century reflect the popularity of Harney's song.
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	Baby News
		Born July 26, 2007 to Ben and Michelle
		You may order prints by contacting Ruthie at (541) 573-6421 or stopping by 'Ruthie's' at 380 N Broadway in Burns.
		Harney District Hospital, 557 W Washington, Burns OR 97720
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	Band B4 - Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932 (The American Folklife Center, Library ...
		Band B4 After finishing his performance of "The Wagon" Ben Harney (1871-1938) announced to Gordon's recording machine: "This is absolutely the first song published in ragtime; the first song ever written in ragtime.
		But even at the time it was obvious that his primary claim was not for originating the form, but for bringing it to the attention of the public through his vaudeville performances.
		The song itself is deceptively simple; Harney's syncopated piano accompaniment is more "ragtime" than his singing, although it is hard to tell from this performance how Harney would have sounded with a piano accompaniment.
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		Ben CarsonM.D. Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk
		Author: Ben CarsonM.D. Synopsis: You can find our culture’s obsession with avoiding risk everywhere, from multiple insurance policies to crash-tested vehicles.
		Surgeon and author Dr. Ben Carson, who faces risk on a daily basis, offers an inspiring message on how accepting risk can lead us to a higher purpose.
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		(Ben wrote both the words and music.) In 1895, he had his first real hits.
		In 1897, Harney's publisher, Isidor Witmark, published Harney's 'Ragtime Instructor', a book of lessons on how to play piano rags.
		He certainly did much to introduce piano rags to New Yorkers, and the rest of the country.
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	Ben Harney Music - Favorite Songs - Lyrics From
		Ben Harney, another ragtime pioneer, was billed in 1896 as "the rag time pianist"...
		Ben Harney is generally said to have been born in Louisville, Kentucky, although...
		Image disabled) Ben Harney, from cover of 1896 sheet music Ben Harney is generally said to have been born in Louisville, Kentucky, although some sources put his birthplaces as Nashville, Tennessee...
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		In the book, Ben promoted his thesis that rags were not a composition, but rather a style of playing.
		In this work, Ben gave examples of rag-ing the classics, such as Rubinstein's "Melody in F"; Mascagni's "Intermezzo" from the Cavalleria Rusticana, and Mendelson's "Spring Song".
		From all the foregoing, we see that Harney may have been one of the first White men to write piano rags and to put his ragtime effects on paper.
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	Benjamin Robertson Harney
		Benjamin Robertson Harney was an American vaudeville artist, comedian, singer, pianist and composer of popular music and is generally considered to be an originator of ragtime music from which jazz and modern syncopation was derived..
		Harney moved to New Yorkin 1896 appearing regularly in Tony Pastor's Music Hall.
		Harney toured widely in America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the South Pacific billing himself as "The Originator of Ragtime" or "The Father of Ragtime", a claim not accepted by all.
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	Courier-Life Publications - You Go Girl: Tony Award Winner Brings Hit Broadway Musical to Brooklyn Fans - The ...
		Twenty-four years after Ben Harney won the Tony Award as best actor in a musical for his performance in Dreamgirls, Harney is taking the legendary show on again, this time right here in the borough of Brooklyn.
		While, Harney said, the crew and performers are not union members, professionalism, he stressed, “has more to do with attention to details than with the money you’re paid or the venue you’re in.”
		The upcoming performances, said Harney, are something of a “fundraiser.” Having lost the 4,000 square foot space they had moved into on the border of Williamsburg and Bushwick, at the end of last year, Harney said the goal is to find and move into a new space that can be a home to the organization.
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	The Spokesman-Review.com - Ben Harney
		Harney spent the war as an artillery officer, spending time in Texas, Panama, New Guinea, and eventually Japan as part of the Army of Occupation.
		Harney was a 40-year member of the Washington Society of CPAs.
		Survivors include his wife; six children, Phyllis McMillan, Dwayne Harney, Marilyn Schroeder, Karen Albano and Janet McBride, all of Spokane, and Glenn Harney of San Diego; two sisters Marcella Nimmow of Devils Lake, N.D., and Eileen Carter of San Rafael, Calif.; 16 grandchildren and 14 grandchildren.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /news/obits.asp?ObitID=16415&PubDate=12/14/2004 (476 words)

	BEN HARNEY: Still Realizing The Dream
		The BV Newswire caught up with Harney, who also serves as the Director of the Adult Drama Department of Brooklyn megachurch Christian Cultural Center.
		Ben's voice is truly a gift from GOD because when he sang you listened to the words and became lost in the song.
		Comment from bonnieseye - 1/4/07 3:31 AM Beb Harney is a man of God.He does the work of the lord daily.He might not be making a lot of dollars,but he sure makes a lot of cents.
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	Kentucky Blues Society - History
		Also called "Father of Ragtime", Ben R Harney, was a Kentuckian
		While the music has its roots from the African-Americans in the south, it was Ben R. Harney who first had it written down on paper and popularized the music across the nation.
		Ben R Harney was a native of Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Benjamin Mills Harney and Margaret Wellington Draffin.
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