[4] During the early 1950s, Lou Busch adopted the personality of Joe "Fingers" Carr, and made a series of ragtime recordings.
[5] According to the noted sources[additional citation(s) needed], in the time frame from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, when Tichenor wasn't acquiring first a high school degree from Country Day School (1958) and then a bachelor of arts from Washington University (1963), he was spending his time acquiring notable collections of original ragtime sheet music and piano rolls and making contact with the active members and legends of the continuing ragtime tradition.
By 1960, Tichenor's house had become renowned in the area as a place where one could hear hours of excellent music by both amateur and professional ragtime musicians.
[7] The tables at the end of this article show that Tichenor regularly recorded ragtime music, both solo and with others, during a period of over 52 years, starting in 1962.
[9] Various authors[additional citation(s) needed] have noted that he had either the largest collection of ragtime piano rolls in the world, or one of them.
During his performance years at the Showboat Goldenrod, Tichenor did a brief stint around 1971 at community radio station KDNA-FM, St. Louis.
He contributed two volumes of a total of 127 rags which gave a broader perspective on the kind and quality of ragtime piano music of the years between 1897 and 1917.
With David A. Jasen, in 1978 Tichenor published a widely read compendium Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History.