Charles Leslie Johnson: The Ragtime Virtuoso Behind 'Dill Pickles'
American ragtime composer, pianist, and prolific songwriter associated with Tin Pan Alley.Charles Leslie Johnson, born in 1876 in Kansas City, Missouri, became a prominent figure in the ragtime era. Primarily working as a staff arranger and composer for the music publisher M. Witmark & Sons in Chicago, he produced hundreds of pieces under his own name and the pseudonym Raymond Birch....