Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar - Will Bradley

[LibraryPervert]

Once again, "rock" has been shown up by something from the supposedly boring Swing Era.

[aeneasFF7]

i am going to have a heart attack listening to this song!

[johnfindlaymusic]

this is the recording i learned from...unless others have this LH bass line..which is real hard to play..

[Georgewos]

Clarence Pinetop Smith was the originator of boogie woogie. Tommy Dorsey copied the music originally recorded by Pinetop in 1928, 10 years later. It became a big seller again in 1944.

[beccahday]

fantastic tune, thanks for posting.

[zbelzanger]

If I were limited to choosing just one WWII big band recording as a harbinger of things to come (rock & roll), it would have to be this one. It's even got the faint hint of a back beat in it. (And "back beat boogie" was one of the ways of describing it all in the early 50's before Allen Freed put the name Rock & Roll into the mainstream). Boogie woogie WAS the rock & roll of WWII. It was a small step from Freddie Slack to Jerry Lee Lewis. ("And when he jams with the bass and guitar....")

[JubalCalif]

@zbelzanger

I second that emotion! Well said & well put! This is boogie woogie at it's best! Thanks for an intelligent, articulate & thought provoking post! CHEERS, mate! :-)

[NickiWaters23]

@zbelzanger I love Freddie Slack, he is my friends Dad, and he is one of the greats for sure.



[dukkLips]

@Poptium,how exactly would you know that?

[CoyoteDeLosMuertos]

If this song is for Fallout, then IrRrIS1l3nt, ya better remove comments here too.

[IrRrIS1l3nt]

@CoyoteDeLosMuertos

since there are no 12 year olds spamming mindless crap, theres no need to. 

[CoyoteDeLosMuertos]

@IrRrIS1l3nt Groovy.

[wkunzelman1]

@IrRrIS1l3nt Can't help but notice that comment. I dislike spam, but I *do* like that video games were my gateway into the past, as paradoxical as that sounds. They introduced me to a lot of good old-time music. =P

[IAmWafflicious]

@IrRrIS1l3nt Im 13....

[poptium]

the guy looks like a pedofile

[beccahday]

@poptium what an ignorant, silly thing to say. and you misspelled the word, while you were at it.

[NickyCo]

Why did you cut off the end of this?

[IrRrIS1l3nt]

@NickyCo I didn't acutally, i had different recordings, unfortunetly i used the wrong one. Maybe ill post the full one i i feel like it =)

[aeneasFF7]

@IrRrIS1l3nt ooooo pleaseeeeeeeee upload the complete!

[gerkins1]

I used to play boogy music on the piano.

[radiokid2]

Yeah, Freddie retired to a small Oregon town not too far from Seattle (where I live)...wish I could have met him!

[drzarkov39]

This is just Part 1 of the recording. Part 2 is on the flip side of the record. Maybe someone could post Part 2.

[musicnsports95]

Lacing the shoe that kicked ass!!!

[thrummer1953]

Oh That's GOOD!

[RockRobT01]

Yeah for white boogie artistes. Not to demean the blacks at all, but we do have some rhythmn!

[zbelzanger]

In an interview, Ray McKinley said he came up with the title to this when he forgot the lyrics half way through a different song they where playing one night, so he yelled "O beat me daddy, eight to the bar". They then wrote this song around that phrase and the rest, as they say, is history. McKinley was a pretty hep guy when it came to jive boogie, and one of the better drummers of the big band era.

[generationll]

The singer Ray McKinley woud go onto play for Glenn MIller in his Army air corp band

[Bumblebee38]

Great freddie Slack ..................the best white Boogie woogie pianist EVER EVER

[Gilligan346]

I can't figure the bass line out to save my life! Help anyone?

[51362879]

@Gilligan346

Watch commander cody;'s jerry lewis telethon 1989 version here on youtube. the guy is ripping it up on a fender jazz bass and you can see his hand motions pretty clearly in most of it. hope that helps.

[JubalCalif]

I'm surprised there are not more comments here. This is one of the BEST examples of big band boogie woogie. The late great Freddie Slack is on piano...showing why he was considered TOPS in his field. I absolutely love this rendition....if I was on a desert island, it's definitely one those "must have' recordings.  Thanks a lot for sharing it with us!

[NickyCo]

Excellent