Meade Lux Lewis - Boogie Woogie

[tatu8663]

I wish I could time travel so bad!

[AtADesk]

Does anyone think Mr. Lewis is the model for the pianist playing in Nick's in Pottersville in the movie "It's A Wonderful Life?"

[twongler]

Lovely, lovely stuff. Today's talentless nonentities who perpetrate plastic drivel should listen to this beautiful, colourful, fun music and hang their heads in shame.

[captaincutback]

and I thought the only dance you could do to Boogie Woogie was the Balboa

[AloisVonRot]

Good old boogie woogie. Great!

[dharmaseed]

He doesn't even have to look at the keys...wow.....

[yagaboo2u]

Pure



[branek52]

I suppose it's because this takes talent and years of work.

[gcpropertymanagement]

Branek52, I hate to say it but I think you're right!

[branek52]

So why, exactly, are we all wasting our time listentng to rap and hip-hop?

[aseeker2010]

@branek52 We are not ALL listening to rap and hip hop. Only those who don't know better.

[kurdtLycan]

Music rolls. Dancers are kinda Uncle Tom yo.

[wreyoG]

back when planet earth was HEAVEN

[plappolog]

wonderful!

[gcpropertymanagement]

This is as slick as it gets. You can't get this again. You can try but you can't get close to this. This is the American spirit in action. Nobody can beat this. The history will tell you that.

[gcpropertymanagement]

This is as slick as it gets. You can't get this again. You can try but you can't get close to this.

[RealRockandRoll]

@Gyphia Very true! although I'd throw doo wop music in just before rock!

[RealRockandRoll]

This is the beginning of all things rock and roll!

[Chicagopianoman]

awesome music !!!!

[TomiRing]

What an ultrafunny dance :DDDDDDDDDDDD. Lovely music, my favorite.

[sexykatie90]

thumbs up if you like Meade Lux Lewis - Boogie Woogie

[Dontbustthecrust]

Soul Train was pretty phat back then eh?

[Filotimos]

Damn these dancers are good, sooo bang on!

[billbonham]

This almost rock n roll.

[dvdsmlprstylr]

Brilliant, but if you think them girls are sexy...god help you

[andmaketherain]

@dvdsmlprstylr Back in da day they wuz...

[Commentator732]

that was the era of loose legs, man

[candycanelollipop]

This where the glory is.

[jolcom]

Who needs a band?

[gindinb]

The birth of rock and roll FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheSovietRooster]

those dances are better than the shit dances. Dougie eat your heart out

[ZhouFantastic]

@TheSovietRooster Fuck you.

[Filotimos]

Respect , respect, respect! Darn it man these dudes and dudesses are tops!

[Miau0909]

That's how the people were entertaining themselves in some half century or further ago. Nice one.

[tjeverso45]

HISTORY OF JAZZZZZZ....... FUCKKKK yeahhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Love Josh

[HandsomeVIVII]

I could listen to this all night. In fact, I think I just might :)

[schroederdevrient]

who the hell needs cocaine when you got him and Yancey!

[iselliot]

I love this music so much it makes me burst into tears.

[HoboGus]

Great Video!!! Awesome piano playing too. The 15 people at the bottom who rated this "dislike" are NUTS!! Put me down for "Dis I Like!! "

[cuoricinaization]

Great !!:DD

[plappolog]

love it!

[adz1012000]

if only R&B was still the same now its just sh**

[gix500]

nice music video, this from MTV??

[RockandrollPoet]

this guy rocked before there was rock!

[godard17]

more importantly, who the hell needs fred astaire and gene kelley when you have dancers like these.

[MotorheadMetallica]

Boogie Woogie with sexy girls dancing XD

great discribtion XD

[sirjuandabicho]

Maravilloso, muchas gracias.

!Viva Meade Lux!

[freakyhead20]

14 people clicked the wrong button..

[KamiKazeBliss]

Wow, just wow...this is so amazing!!! Thank you for loading this.

[abcdefgh1234534]

i was born in the wrong era

[kapitankusto]

Estos flamenquitos tienen mucho arte

[docorazius]

Ladies and gentleman thi is the reeeeeeal MUSIC!

[TangelTingelBob]

1:45

Incredible!

It´s a mirror!

[juv7]

an absolute jot to whitness they just dont make guys like him anymore thanks for posting and a real cutey ladie 1.59 lol brilliant

[janegael]

I'm asked if I like "Black" music. I laugh and say "Yes, but not the kind that you do." We owe you, Lux!

[ziomekjakzloto]

great :D

[mackintosh1967]

What film? What year?

[KawhackitaRag]

There's rather too much mugging and Uncle Tomism going on in this (makes me want to smack the white guys who came up with it/wrote it/directed it), but it's totally worth putting up with just to see the great Meade Lux Lewis in action!

It's too bad there isn't any film of him in a "natural" rent-party atmosphere, with people just being themselves for a change!

[goPistons06]

@KawhackitaRag in most of these old jazz videos black people are portrayed as idiots who can only smile and dance. i'm not black myself, but it makes me angry. i think also there's hardly any videos of bop musicians because they didn't fit into this"dumb happy nigger" image

[GETTINGYOUNGERONE]

@goPistons06 You misunderstand what is happening. Black people do enjoy music it's as if music is part of their souls. When I watched that clip I felt a kind of joy and wished I could have been there. I know of the "john crow" image, but I can assure you that they would not have smiled and danced if they were not part of the music.

[2grouchy1]

@goPistons06 : I could tell you weren't black by the bigoted nature of your post. all professional muscians smile as though they were happy but they often felt sad, it just couldn't show. I don't like bigots irrespective of their skin color. I asked a Jewish friend, one time, why Jews poked fun of their curture as do Blacks his answer was enlightening: Blacks and Jews have been denigrated from time immemorial to survive they had to laugh or cry, the price was the same..

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

@goPistons06 really....? are you f---ing insane? this did not occur all the time & in this film this is not the case. go get pissed somewhere else you lunatic. do u think ppl will accept u more readily if they see the extremity of your "feelings"? twit

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

My God that cat can melt an 88 with that speed. Meade was Rockin' & Rollin' & what not, back in the 1930's-40's. Thanx for the swell post!

[AssemblerGuy]

Hehe, you'll have to be a just-about-everything-plegic in order to NOT move to music like this... :-D

[floydian1987]

who the hell needs antidepressants when you got this vid to cheer you up! lol

[Junebug8147]

hahahaha, so right!

[SuperStuey2]

@floydian1987 ---Indeed!

[wizardalvin]

snaps for the cool

[fullweedman]

Amazing !

[crayon2323]

towards the end of his life due to the great depression meade lux lewis was reduced to the job of a car washer.

[geokush]

This sort of music has been round longer than that in barrelhouses -- i.e., traveling musicians would play this style in the booze and prostitution places that served, mostly African Americans, working in the lumber industry in the south. See Peter Sylvester's "A Left Hand Like God" for a pretty good history of boogie-woogie jazz.

[ComoKate2010]

The guy in the white hat looks like Snoop Dog !

[smy90]

Such scandalous clothing. Go back to your brothel, harlot!

[Maryasha33]

Музыка просто слов нет как хороша!! Высший пилотаж!!

Music simply no words how good! Aerobatics!

[blackc5356]

Where can I go in Moscow to hear music like this?

[RockabillyWilly1]

Its GODs music - devil is so LOOSER!!!

[DrDEEPPER]

Power Beat♪!

[mncook2008]

absolute fine show good old stick meade lux lewis

[Ltwally1966]

The Devil's Music

[RockabillyWilly1]

No, GODs Music!! GOD the Pancreator created man,man created boogie and rock n roll

[Analyze84]

@RockabillyWilly1 actually African-Americans created boogie woogie and rock and roll

[RockabillyWilly1]

Agree - thats true! I love this music - the foundation of true Rock n Roll & Rockabilly

[RockabillyWilly1]

Finally understood that Rock n Roll was from late 30s early 40s...True?

[ComoKate2010]

@RockabillyWilly1

this is Boogie Woogie and it goes back to the 1920's

[RockabillyWilly1]

Yes true! It went all way down from the late 1800s - called RENT PARTIES

[ReDRuM868]

@RockabillyWilly1 Yea to pay the rent! wish i could pay rent that way.

[marcusbarkton]

that link is crap. its from YumSexy. com

[JRussoBuffaloNY]

man,hit that 88!!! damn!

[irvinemuscles]

Old timers r the best.

[sosome57]

Boogie woogie is such great music, but seeing people that really know how to dance it really brings out the fabulous flavor. "It's a Wonderful Life" - watched it last night - the scene in "Nick's" bar! Wow. You know your boogie artists! Am I wrong or is there correlation between ragtime (originated in "cat houses" before the turn of the 20th century - "ragging" the music of the day) and boogie woogie? It's not much of a stretch in my mind.

[allenlewis]

The Blues is the mane spice in all American music. The Blues came from funken up what was heard in church," a sinful thing" lol.

[King689]

For More Meade Lux Lewis footage, check out "It's A Wonderful Life." Remember the scene where George Bailey gets kicked out of the bar? That's none other then Meade Lux Lewis on the piano.

[Showtime675]

What a jam, great fucking song

[Nandito2006]

bienn.. good

[wamij2]

nothing wrong with hot chicks dancing to some straight 8 rochin' blues!

[JubalCalif]

The "dancing" is a bit over the top but the boogie woogie piano is FIRST RATE! Thanks for sharing this scintillating soundie with us! What a delight! :)

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

That's how they used to dance to it at that time. Boogie Woogie got big in the late 20's.

[RockabillyWilly1]

Sooooo Awsome!!!!

[pyannaguy]

Boogie woogie fans - type in Vince Weber and check out his "Vince the Prince" (1981)

Oh my God! He tears it up with the best and sings like a blues powerhouse! He's German (and still alive and kickin' it!

[RagnarRollo]

rock solid

[cushtichavi]

That young man and girl were in all these soundies...who are they?

[BuckshotLaFunke]

Around 0:50 I can hear his left hand sing: 'Rock 'n' Roll, rock 'n' roll...'.

[gangerollo]

Meade Lux Lewis - if you can work on the black and whites like that you sure gotta have a suitable name like Meade... . This IS Rockn'Roll for me loong time before it was called that. This man is just super. Add AA and PJ. OMG what a trio!

[idaltuguy]

Well, technically, this wasn't related to blues. Blues artists began incorporating this into their music. Barrelhouse/Boogie Woogie is actually more closely related to stride piano.

[KawhackitaRag]

Dude, you're nuts. Boogie-Woogie IS a way to play the blues! In fact, many of the basic boogie basses were used (infrequently) from the late teens and early 20s on and were just considered blues piano basses. Once somebody figured out all this train tune/party tune stuff, it became "boogie-woogie".

Are you one of those people who think that Delta blues (or country blues) is the only "real blues"? Because it's not the only one. There are many ways to play the blues.

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

Actually, you're wrong on that. The Boogie pattern was used in the blues guitar styles (you can even hear it a little in BLind Lemon Jeffersons "Matchbox Blues"), but it came out of Piano 1st. It was directly related through transitionary ragtime piano styles (which some have erroneously called "honky tonk"-even though there really was no such things as honky tonk piano in reality. That term was used as a

[BarnacleBillsBastard]

(continued)

descriptor of certain roadhouses/jukejoints/bars in the songs). It wasn't until the 40's/50's (w/ the resurge of interest in novelty piano, ragtime, Stride etc. that people began throwing it all together & calling it "Honky Tonk" piano. Couple that w/ the fact that Many honk tonk country artists (totally separate of course) began playing "honky tonk" piano in their breaks, and you have the formula for real confusion.

[KawhackitaRag]

Just for the record... two of my favorite blues pianists are Everett Robbins and Clarence Johnson.

I still can't believe you wrote that: "Well, technically, this wasn't related to blues." HOW can you write this? You must be from another planet or something.

[Bumblebee38]

From a 1944 soundie !!!

[PatsBooks]

I just feel so happy. I got to dance y'all. It is so infectious. Yeah! Excuse me. I got to get my boogie woogie on!

[hellpmaboab]

What a contrast ... fabulous stuff by MLL, and Olympic-Gold-Medal-standard hamming and posturing.

The past is a foreign country.

[johnny9148]

great sounds like pete johnson joe turner rocknroll

[nocterbalbulus]

Which is the name of the tune?

[Juands10]

to think that these 12 bar blues influence rock 30 years later is pretty neat

[Monkeyspankerelite]

Damn, I´m born 70 years too late...

[GeneralLukeford]

Then you were born in 1940 and you were 29 on woodstock...man I'm born 60 years too late :/

[MrKurozuka]

@Monkeyspankerelite

Not only you!

[ALex4815162342]

what wouldn't i give to just go back in time and see him play...

[shihanmac]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jogador0000]

someone knows how to see the cast of actors of this movie?

[stefanberko]

Omg thats pretty ok :)

[kermitelmo]

lol just leave the sleeping baby right next to the boogie woogie piano

[jkaaco]

This should have 130 MILLION views not 130 thousand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[refici222]

wow that man can play

[boowoojo]

Meade rules forever!

[Monkeyspankerelite]

Wonderful! Wich year was this recorded???

[gbalah162]

1927 i believe. it was recorded with honkey tonk train blues. Meade Lux Lewis, recorded by Paramount Records; 1927 in music, first released in March of 1930.

[drxl44]

Previously he earned his living driving a taxi.

[gbalah162]

ohhh. ok. thanks. What does that have to do with anything anyways. well thanks for that

[1400deadwood]

Boogie woogie - sounds every bit as good today as ever!!

[temidocucho]

una maravilla

[3pp0]

she is really beautiful. im prettier tho!

20.F here bA

[ethanspongebob]

~ going on cam

[gjazz22]

is that dance called the black bottom?????

[bonecrusher303]

"The Roots of Rock n Roll are the Delta Blues.

The Fathers of the Blues; Charlie Patton and his contemporaries along with Son House, Robert Johnson etc, are considered to be the

'Ancestors of what would come to be called Rock n Roll. There wouldn't be any Jazz without the vital Blues ingredient in the menu. There wouldn't be Rhythm and Blues or Funk. Mead Lux Lewis is one of the Founding Fathers of Boogey Woogie. What he helped do was -put that 'Boogie Woogie SWING into Rock N Roll'. "

[mridrid]

of course even delta blues has its roots so you could say that african drumming is the roots of rock'n'roll but lets not get penicity ey?

[bonecrusher303]

"You certainly do sound PENICITY yourself".

[mridrid]

i was just illustrating a point. the point being that evryone has their influences and its juvenile to imagine that the blues is the only founder of rock'n'roll. my proposal is that blues, jazz, honky tonk gospel country, rag-time even all grew up together with shared influences and sounds. To say blues is the only root of rock'n'roll and all that followed, is just ignorant. to say that all those other genres werent equaly influential, frankly, is just offensive. so i suppose my point is shut up

[bonecrusher303]

"Your point is very well Illustrated although

many millions would beg to differ. So yes, now

you've gotten it off of your chest I guesse you ought to certainly shut up. Dont let life wear you down, just relax and listen to all the beautful, inspiring and interesting music

that one can freely access here on YouTube. I'm sure you'll discover more than enough to

keep you Happy."

[theplanetariumscene]

I agree with alot of what you said.People often put an over emphasis on Delta Blues as the roots of Rock, because this type of Blues is largely guitar based.But they overlook that Rock & Roll was initialy a piano/brass dominated style, stuff like Fats Domino.Blues, Boogie Woogie, Jazz and Black Gospel were all important roots to the music.Country music would eventualy be added to the mix, but not all Rock & Roll is influenced by it.

[theplanetariumscene]

Oops! I wanted my comments to be a reply to mridrid.

[Bushman821]

That's "PERSNICKITY" DUMB ASS.

[bonecrusher303]

'Ok' Bushman821. Thanks GAY ASS!

[musicpeacesex]

i love that coool yeah yeah

[gangerollo]

Orami...don't forget Albert Ammons, as great as the 2 others and when you are into Jerry Lee Lewis, a big influence was of course Hank Williams. He was more rocknroll than some so called rockers of today. My 2 cents

[gangerollo]

Gotta loooove that boogie woogie. MLL, AA and PJ...for me they are the 3 main boogie guys. Anyone who knows what boogie woogie excatly means?

[Brutus2]

Nobody knows for sure, but there are some ideas...

[oramikleepunk]

Both of these guys are the roots of Rock n Rooll.

[gitfiddlejim]

It could be a sexual inuendo, like reelin & rockin aint about dancin. Well, Ok horizontal dancin.

I doubt this is on any video, but it could be on a CD , Boogie Woogie by Honey Hill, a guy, superb pianist from the 30,s, accompanied Amos Easton on many recording, Easton, aka Bumble Bee Slim.

So his version of the boogie is outstanding, & very well recorded, I have it one one of those things called an LP, limited edition from 60,s, worth a few quid by now, not for sale folks.

G

[mrpossibilities]

LOL! The Mtv of the 20's!

[lamiamano]

boogie woogie! put that into today' boring life and kick it and you'll see that life will begin with a smile!

Spontanous excellent top of the performer!

[4skinmasseure]

A master at work.

[HauptSpieler]

Trust me. You really don't.

[controreazione]

I think they all had gunpowder for breakfast.

[MrTycho]

No you don't

[peachfoot]

yeah, Pete Johnson is amazing. But this guy is one of the originators/pioneers.

Such precision! Such ease!

[JosephNScott]

Pete Johnson was born in 1904, Meade Lux Lewis in 1905.

[oramikleepunk]

Jerry Lee lewis would be nothing without these guys.

[joomuck]

Nothing bettr than listening to Meade as to listening to the greatest, that is, Pete Johnson.

[planetcaravan72]

Great kick ass boogie! Simply beautiful!

[lam95jlm]

THAT is piano!!

[musictranscription]

I can write for you any sheet music

[georg2007ch]

I LOVE IT.