down the road a piece

[fg6971]

i have liked this song since i first heard it on a rolling stones album i bought in 1966. this old video is such a pleasant find thanks for posting. 

[consul1957]

Astonishing

[luckcosmo]

the man is doing a funny dance

[zbelzanger]

Classic thythm & blues. The epitome of it all. It will never be done any better.

[MonkeyHunch]

This presenter guy dont do air guitar he does air cello! 

[hotdogman67]

This shit goes hard...

[RozEddie]

This is it pour boggie

[Danh103663]

Love me some Amos Milburn!

[san5a89]

oh they could move away that jerk next to milburn...

[dingoswamphead]

I like the Air Bass too.

[iadvani]

Amos Milburn. Just fabulous. And the music lives today - check out Mike Sanchez's performances of this.

[909chuck]

What a great piece of history! Thanks for putting it on the YT clothesline!

[cinedux]

king of cool!

[jbones61]

this time of year, it seems like folks remember this music. I remember all year long. Thanks

[Puccinotti]

Unbelievable talent!!

[BOOTSYGetLIVE]

GENIUS !

[freakyhead20]

lets keep boogie woogie alive...thumbs up if you agree! :)

[hyzercreek]

This song was originally done in 1941 by a bunch of white guys and it was written by Don Raye, the same guy who wrote Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B, and Beat Me Daddy 8 to the Bar.

Search youtube for this song by the Will Bradley Orchestra with Freddy Slack, they did the original version.

[BaDonkaaDonk]

come on guyz support Amos Milburn page in FaceBook !! only 306 like !!! come on it should be millions :(

[funkydrummer14]

And they say Rock and Roll began in the 1950's!?!? Don't think so!

[mufilmfest]

Yes, the (kill the) "White Guy," is Willie Bryant. Correct that, the great Willie Bryant. Check out his band of the early Thirties. Later he was the emcee at the Apollo for many years. Oh, yeah, he is black. 

[2quundar]

somebody could kill the TV man for me ?I'm leavin too far from the USA. Thanxs

[irulehyrule2]

The white guy's awful dance moves really detract from the incredible musicianship.

[ChingaChe]

@irulehyrule2 The "white guy" is a black man and a pro dancer among his many talents

[honkydudeman]

FOR FUCKS SAKE ,,,,,IM NEARLY 57 ,,AND IM STILL GETTING BLOWN AWAY BY MUSICIANS I AINT HEARD O BEFORE ,,,,AS MODERN MUSIC IS PURE SHITE ,YET ITS HISTORY IS FANTASTIC ,THANK GOD FOR THE NET ,ALLOWING US TO DISCOVER OTHER AVENUES OF ITS PAST ,,,WERE GOING THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY ,,,,,AS THE STONES SAID ALMOST HALF A CENTURY AGO ,,,,,LEADING THE WAY ,,,AMEN

[theburdcotter]

@honkydudeman When I was 16 back in 1981, i first heard the Stray Cats and they introduced me to music that nobody knows about. And the net is the greatest thing to track down this stuff. Its amazing

[kittyjoker]

AIR CELLO

[PaulHWilliamsEstate]

The Paul Williams band did a great job accompanying Amos Milburn.

[jllorigins]

Little Willie Littlefield, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... step aside, here is AMOS MILBURN!!!

[TheTimLG]

And I always thought that Chuck Berry wrote this song.....this must pre-date Chuck Berry by years!! Fantastic!!

[daddyrollingstone]

So fuckin boss!

[buskerbuoy]

Killer

[didgeman987]

awesome awesome awesome

[jive4005]

awesome stage performer

[trebleclefts]

God like, so, so ,so beautiful, so, so, so , sweet he was the best then and is the best now 1:20 a true genius, and as said sitting side on his touch/feel is truly out of this world, what lable has this? they should remaster it and re-issue it.

[jamesmykal]

anybody know who the other guy is, the host of the show? he seems pretty hip for a jew boy, I mean you can tell he really knows the music..

[jamesmykal]

I have the record, this is not dubbed to the record..I can tell because the call and answere at the beginiing is a differant voice.

[ShinyMighty]

The finest along with Memphis Slim

[mattybock]

this has been called the first rock song, and i'm incling to belive it. I listened to all of wikipedia's entries and this is the best contender to my ears. @ 1:03, what the hell is the white guy doing?

[doctornoe]

@mattybock that aint no white guy - it is the great Johnnie Otis and he is doin fine!!!!!

[mattybock]

@doctornoe- you gotta be kidding me....

[doctornoe]

@mattybock I kid you not. This was an appearance on his groundbreaking TV show. His son Shuggie Otis is one of my favorite psychedelic soul singers. Check it out dude.

[doctornoe]

@mattybock - my mistake ... it is Willie Bryant, but he is not exactly OFay:

Willie Bryant, an important bandleader for a time in the 1930s, was a familiar and likable fixture at the Apollo Ballroom in the 1940s and '50s, acting as an M.C. and taking an occasional vocal.

[doctornoe]

@mattybock then again somebody in my circle says it is Johnny Otis ...

"Milburn is fantastic, so driving and relaxed. Johnny Otis is just his fine self. I love the Stones recording of this, with some of my all-time favorite Keith Richards stuff, but this is not live, dubbed to the record. Alas. Think I have a live in London disc somewhere, just as good, or edgier. "

[texas77581]

Oh yes! love this stuff

[Maryasha33]

Что за музыка!! Что за мастерское виртуозное исполнение!! Великолепная музыка!! Спасибо!!

What kind of music!! What a masterful virtuoso performance!! Great music! Thank you!!

[hyzercreek]

The best boogie woogie piano player of the 40's was Harry The Hipster Gibson. He was 10 years earlier than Amos, and rocked harder. Search his name on youtube.

[starboy288]

Saw the Harry The Hipster vids and he was certainly ahead of his time & a fine boogie player, but with all due respect his bass line was static and his right hand riffs lacked the inventiveness and fluidity of Amos Milburn. He might have benefited from a band backing like Milburn had in his day.

Both surely deserve more historical significance as early influences on what became rock n roll and boogie blues.

[hyzercreek]

@starboy288 you only say that because Harry was white

[starboy288]

That's ridiculous. Players are players; every instrument, every color, every style.

Lighten up, everybody's who they are...and that my preference leaned in a different direction than yours, really had zero implication to racism or favoritism. I play piano & now consider both Gibson & Milburn under reported as concerns their contributions to music in their playing & singing. I just happen to like Milburn's style of playing piano. I didn't even know Harry until you pointed him out. Good find..

[hyzercreek]

@starboy288 The backing band is the paul williams orch, and the guy in the checkered jacket is PW himself.

[hyzercreek]

@starboy288 compare to the pic at the hoyhoy web site

[starboy288]

Great website. What a fine study of the era prior to what we think of as rock n roll; and, explanation of why so many performers weren't promoted. Good historical information for those who want to delve deeply into the real roots of rock n roll. Will enjoy listening to those excerpts provided of original material & performers from that pre-rock era. Again, good find.

[hyzercreek]

@starboy288 It wasn't a find. I wrote the web site. The painting of Milburn and the paul williams band was done by my then-girlfriend. Click the pic and see the photo of them. I also produced the "Rock Before Elvis" CD for the Hoy Hoy record label, which I own.

[JubalCalif]

Heavens to Murgatroid! What a thrill! Amos sure knew how to "get down"! Wonderful boogie woogie stuff! Truly classic! I've heard other versions of this tune...but this is the first time I've heard Amos do it. Coolsville to the max, daddy-o! I can dig it....can't help but be hep to that jive! THANKS for sharing this delightful "blast from the past" with us! And HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you & yours! :)

[SUNNYRHOADES9]

Let get him Inducted into The Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame . This Cat Is Pure Love Man - Dig It .This Gentleman was the Real First Jerry Lee Lewis .Genius .

[IAmTheWoodenDoors]

One the precursors to Rock n' Roll.

[pompenel]

Excellent!

[jdhamiltonx2]

Amos is killer and is true representative of boogie woogie from the late 30's and early '40's.Boogie Woogie of the '40's was the foundation of '50's Rock and Roll.Chuck Berry and other musician's of the '50's knew the implications of that boogie woogie style and used it so it never really died because it is so prevalent in a lot of '50's music from Frankie Ford with Sea Cruise to Jerry Lee Lewis to Chuck Berry's piano player Johnnie Johnson .Boogie piano is still alive in many venues.Dig it !

[starboy288]

I can hardly believe how close these piano licks are to Johnnie Johnson's playing. Since Amos predated Johnnie (his heyday was 1949), one can assume Johnnie soaked up an awful lot of Amo's style & put it into Chuck Berry's songs that he played on in the 1950's.

But then we all learn from each other and absorb the past to create the future in so many instances in life.

Amos sure was the real deal and played as well as any of the more well known pianists of that style of jump blues/ boogie.

[jphar]

I think Jimmy Yancey pre-dated most of them, he's the greatest.

[starboy288]

Yep, Yancey was a pioneer, for sure, but hey, they're all terrific in their own right; Amos Milburn, Johnnie Johnson, Jerry Lee Lewis. Piano players are like fingerprints & snowflakes, all different.

Indeed, that might be said of all musicians. Some just play the notes mechanically, while some put their whole heart & soul into it, even if it's a quiet piece. It's why we respond differently to various musicians & singers and artists. Because we each have distinct tastes, as well. Art is grand.

[iDrum19]

this is great

[eljefegrande22]

that was fucking amazing. I am stunned. HOLY SHIT. I feel like curse words are the only thing that would come close to expressing how utterly drop dead fantastic that piano playing was. I would give up a lot of things to be able to play like that.

[thomasmantellwilliam]

Who's the Hep-Cat on the right?

[AlexAussAnt]

Good question, really! xD

[thomasmantellwilliam]

FOCKIN' "A"

[fistofate]

Dam that was hot! No Wonder Mr. Berry covered it!

[turkishpower08]

yeah boogie woogie!

[valentuss]

Can,t stop booging i,ll dance all night long... :>))))))

[Romny2]

Can,t stop booging i,m gone.

[PhilW66]

Wow - left hand bass - shhh.... genius at work here.

[xXxXBassistXxXx]

You must be mistakin, thats right-handed

[problem49]

Who's the brilliantine penguin that introduced the world to air acoustic bass?

[firripsz]

LOL!! The brilliantined penguin is, I believe, Willie Bryant. The clip is from a R&B Revue from the Harlem(?) Theatre late

40s/early 50s.

[STANLIZ4]

A genius at work! siting sideways to the piano, singing, looking around, in coversation, perfect rythmn, occasional glance at the keyboard, is it appreciated how good you have to be to manage that??

[ToddCMorgan]

It certainly is!!!!

[problem49]

Disgaceful that he wasn't considered good enough to eat at the same counter with illiterate rednecks. Thank goodness for YouTube where we can all appreciate his genious, and piss on the memory of systemic racism.

[bikeboytim]

@STANLIZ4 May not look it, but it's not as hard as it looks! Although his playing ability and showmanship is far far beyond anything that mine will ever be, what he's doing isn't that hard.

[limunan]

is this jazz style?

why stones cover that

[PAULLONDEN]

Thas Boogie Woogie....boy,!•♫!♫!•

W H Y ????

Because is C-O-O-L ☻▬☺

[valentuss]

Absolutely support you!!!

[bellgardens53]

Apart from Amos...Aha, as I was really interested about the emcee. So that is Willie Bryant....thank you very much. I can see he's a b lack man. Real´cool man, that sort you wanna meet in a bar but you seldom do.

[problem49]

Amos could really wail: check out -CHICKEN SHACK BOOGIE- The man was an unsung genious.

[jdhamiltonx2]

Yo Folks.Boogie woogie from the late 30's and early 40's was basically the format of Rock & Roll.Chuck Berry was basically playing what these boogie players did with their left hand and it really worked out because it became ROCK & ROLL.Jerry Lee Lewis stole from these guys with what he did with his left hand.From about 1944 when Boogie Woogie died until 1955 there was nothing.Then in the mid 50's Elvis ,Fats Domino,Jerry Lee lewis,Chuck Berry became the rage and copied that boogie format=R&R jd

[JosephNScott]

Boogie was extremely popular in the late '40s & early '50s. Wild piano was normal in R&B of about '50 -- e.g. on the average record by Freddie Mitchell (who Freed later filed under rock and roll, rightly). Chuck's playing was mostly a continuation of the style heard on records like "Riffette" by Freddie Slack '42, "Ain't That Just Like A Woman" by Louis Jordan '46, "Rock Awhile" by Goree Carter '49, "Poppa Stoppa" by Pee Wee Crayton '51, & "Flat Foot Boogie" by the Jackson Brothers '52.

[limunan]

isthis RandB or boogie style?

[autorail72]

Excellent!!!!J adore!!! Merci!!!

[gamster68]

Wildhias theres no need to state colour who cares what colour Willie Bryant is saying white guys dance bad is plain racist why bother .Back to the clip Amos Milburn is amazing one of the pioneers of r & b great vintage footage.

[satomiwa]

By the way, thanks for posting this! I grew up on Amos Milburn 78's in the 70's because he was one of my dad's favorites in the 40's and 50's. Bad Bad Whiskey, Let Me Go Home Whiskey, Milk & Water, One Scotch One Bourbon One Beer... so many great songs. My favorite was "I'm gonna tell my mama what you've been doin' to me - I'm gonna tell her that your kisses taste like wine, send cold chills up and down my spine". Amazing piano and sax work in that one. Is this from a dvd?

[beachblues]

It's from a video made by Ben Frye in 1955 called The 1955 Rhythm and Blues Review and also includes Nat Cole, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Turner, Ruth Brown and a host of thers and can be found at the Internet Archive.

Beachie

[ceaserdd]

what tv show is this from ? could we see the whole show ? what a great video post that would b !! roll on amos !! thanx for posting this great vid !!

[TDKIII]

the Rolling Stones' rocked up version is via Chuck Berry's cover, I think from Rockin at the Hops, Manfred Mann do well with it as well

[ShinyMighty]

YEAAAAAAAAAH BABYYYYYYYYYYY

ARG ! Je ne m' en lasserais JAMAIS !!!

Quel swing !!

[hegeland]

I can't hear this too many times! Crackin' stuff!

[wildhias]

Love this song, there is alos a great (young) Rolling Stones Rock N Roll interpretation on the album Now.

PS: even though it's not exactly clear to see - the announcer must be  a white dude otherwise he wouldn't emberass himself so much with his dancing moves

[satomiwa]

That's Willie Bryant, legendary band leader and emcee of the Apollo! He wasn't embarrassing himself, in fact he was a professional dancer. He was feeling it is all. Also, not that it matters, but he's a light skinned black man.

[Rafalongo707]

"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation. " eso aparece con este tema, pero de los rolling stones... porq lo removieron???

[Ronniethefish]

Echo the 6th star comment from earlier...superb.

[EdwardBlues]

impressive, beautiful,strong ....old stuff is the best

[70Martin70]

Incredible, so natural and relaxed...

[polarisguy1]

there's alot of people that have never even heard of Amos. I'll go ahead and call him a "forgotten giant". He was an important part of music history. I just love this video, he's just so full of energy on stage. Lots of fun. Could watch it all day.

[mattcol99]

love the guy next to him dancing at 1.03 ! makes me laugh. The riff at 1.20 makes sense when I realised its played in G (not Ab as it sounds). Its just a run down on the white notes.

[fanrockroll]

Where is the sixth star?

[pianofrizz]

Thank you "boogieman" for this Milbourne video. I love it.

[elcamino7887]

man this rocks

[rodrigoraulsuarez]

Hey, Jerry Lee have a record on this song in his 1995 "Young Blood"

[waltts]

what year is this?

[closedcircle1]

I was listening to all this stuff as an 18 yr old with a friend in 1980 while everyone else my age was into punk. We didn't need drugs - this was enough to make us blow our tops!

[milburn110]

Thanks for posting my uncles' music. Can you find "Chicken Shack Boogie" (the fast verion)?

[d820m]

1948 version or the 1956 New Orleans version?

[ToddCMorgan]

I can't believe that when this kind of music is out there, people would choose to listen to Kanye West and crap like that! Can you?

[VirtreousOrKiniko]

Real music.

[freakyhead20]

a great musician and a awesome song ! :D

[hyzercreek]

I made a mistake before. The conversation at the intro of the 1940 Will Bradley record was between Eight Beat Mack and Don Raye, the guy who wrote the song!!

[TravelChampion]

Top Draw stuff - not too fast, not too slow...it just swings along with that natural true Boogie Woogie Feel.

Love the extended intro too - sets the whole piece up real nicely!

[boogiewoogietechnics]

i was born in the rong dam era

[hyzercreek]

The origianl version of the song was recorded in 1940 by the Will Bradley Orchestra. The drummer was Ray McKinley also known as "Eight Beat Mack" mentioned in the lyrics. After that the lyrics go "And you remember Doc and Beat Me Daddy Slack" but Amos Milburn messes up the lyrics and changes them to "beat me in Daddy's shack" or something. "Doc" was Will Bradley, and Freddy Slack was the piano player. I think Will Bradley's version was way better than Milburns

[hyzercreek]

Correction. "Doc" was the bass player Doc Goldberg. Will Bradley himself was not in the session.

[JosephNScott]

Fun how they have the MC, Willie Bryant (known as "the mayor of Harlem") do the other side of the conversation at the start. On the record Amos did both sides of the conversation.

[hyzercreek]

In the original record the conversation was kept by Will Bradley and Ray "Eight Beat Mack" McKinley. McKinley sang the song, with "Doc" Bradley adding comments. The piano playing by Freddy "Beat Me Daddy" Slack was every bit as good as Milburn's. People usually think Milburn did the original, but that's not true at all, his version was 1947 and Bradley's was 1940. Even Harry "The Hipster" Gibson was doing this song before Milburn.

[hyzercreek]

On the original version the conversation was between Will Bradley and Ray "Eight Beat Mack" McKinley. The conversation on Bradley's 1940 record was word for word the same as on this video!

[JosephNScott]

Except he says something about "you remember me... Shack" rather than "Slack," which I guess is a reference to his own hit "Chicken Shack Boogie."

[hyzercreek]

another double post?

[hyzercreek]

For the original 1940 version go to rhapsody dot com and then /player?type=track&id=tra.2733­483&remote=false&page=&pagereg­ion=&guid=&from=

[hyzercreek]

I'm sorry that's the wrong link. Now I can't find it again, but its there online somewhere

[JosephNScott]

You can hear the opening talking part of the 1940 record by going to cdconnection dot com and searching on

will bradley eight to bar very best

and then clicking on Details

[hyzercreek]

OK you can hear the whole song at rhapsody dot com and then add this to the URL

/album/jukejointjumpaboogiewoo­giecelebration/downtheroadapie­ce/lyrics.html

And it gives you the lyrics and you click play and hear the whole track

[hyzercreek]

This is even easier. Just go to rhapsody dot com backslash freddieslackorchestra

They call it Freddie Slack Orchestra but it's the 1940 Will Bradley track for sure

[hyzercreek]

When i say backslash i mean forward slash. I mean this /freddieslackorchestra comes after rhapsody dot com. Dont type backslash just type /

[odilonsfriend]

Great ! You can see where Chuck Berry came from...

[kamckenzie]

Thank you. I really enjoy all of Amos Milburn's music.