page_title: Ella Hudson Day
hierarchical_section_title: Ella Hudson Day
caption_attribution_description: English: Fried Chicken Rag, 1912 Français&#160;: Fried Chicken Rag, 1912
context_page_description: Ella Hudson Day was a ragtime musician from Texas best known for "Fried Chicken Rag". She also wrote a few works about Texas due to an "overflow of patriotism". She also stated, "I do not write music because I want to – I write it because I must get it out of my system and that seems the only practical way to do it".
  She and her husband, Eugene Day, moved to Rotan, Texas in 1907 where they helped to found the settlement.
context_section_description: Ella Hudson Day (born Luella Lucile Hudson, 1876 – November 4, 1951) was a ragtime musician from Texas best known for "Fried Chicken Rag". She also wrote a few works about Texas due to an "overflow of patriotism". She also stated, "I do not write music because I want to – I write it because I must get it out of my system and that seems the only practical way to do it".
  She and her husband, Eugene Day, moved to Rotan, Texas in 1907 where they helped to found the settlement.
caption: Ella Hudson Day's Fried Chicken Rag from 1912
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