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Johnny Maddox

Johnny Maddox

Johnny Maddox

Johnny Maddox

Johnny Maddox

Upon hearing him play in 1952, W.C. Handy is reported to have called Maddox "the white boy with the colored fingers."
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In 1954, Maddox was voted America's Number One Jukebox Artist by the Music Operators Association.
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An avid collector of ragtime memorabilia, he has amassed a collection of over 30,000 records, wax cylinders, and piano rolls, as well as a sheet music collection of over 200,000 pieces, some 3,000 of which he claims to have committed to memory.
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Maddox has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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In 1955 Maddox recorded "The Crazy Otto Medley," made up of pieces written by German comic performer Fritz Schulz-Reichel under the persona Otto der Schrage.
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