Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra "Bugle Call Rag" & "Ole Miss" 1940

The Tommy Dorsey band, featuring a.o. Buddy Rich (drums) and Ziggy Elman (trumpet) with "Bugle Call Rag"; traditionally leading into "Ole Miss" and which they re-titled "Well, Git It".

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[trumpetvids]

I read that by the time "The Benny Goodman Story" was filmed, Elman's chops had deteriorated to the point where he was unable to play his own solo on "And The Angel's Sing" and they had to dub in someone else doing it.

[harryoakley]

That "someone else" was Mannie Klein.

[trumpetvids]

Totally different tune than Bugle Call Rag.

[harryoakley]

No it is not. They may CALL it "Well Git It" but it is a reworked "Bugle Call Rag" leading (from the clarinet solo) into "Ole Miss".

[trumpetvids]

@harryoakley Similarities in chord progression doesn't make it "the same tune reworked".

[harryoakley]

Read the other comments and listen to other versions of "Bugle Call Rag" from the 1930's which all progress into "Ole Miss". Dorsey simply reworked the same arrangement as recorded by (for instance) the Chocolate Dandies, and re-named it "Well Git It". It is still very much "Bugle Call Rag" and "Ole Miss" though.

[k5laman]

This isn't bugle call rag. It's called "Well, git it". Great video either way.

[rhythm61]

That was very common, as I have noted on other threads. Two of my favorite Band era songs are "And the angels sing" and Sing Sing Sing.

Both are re-workings of older songs made more famous by the embellishments.

Ziggy Elman added a piece from an old klezmer song to the end of a fairly standard piece and Benny Goodman's version of Sing was Louie prima's + a sped up version of "Christopher Columbus"

The same thing happened when early British rockers took credit for altered blues standards.

[trumpetvids]

@Beachdude57 Yes, it's in the movie along with other performances by the Dorsey band.

[edwardconway27]

fucking epiiccc!!!

[Beachdude57]

@trumpetvids This is not from Dubarry was a lady it's from a music short. It was thier MTV back then in the movie theatres.

[MrHealey1006]

Swing !!! Nothing else !!!!!

[ladykws]

HOLY COW -- that made me pee my pants. LOVE IT!

And two pianos? You're killin' me.

[hep2jive]

Buddy Rich was so cute

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Ahhhhh Buddy Rich, already working on all that grimacing he did when he was playing...

[marksmartus2]

This is the music they play when the stoned Roman soldiers are dancing in Mel Brooks' "History of the World Part 1"! I always wondered what that was. Before they start dancing, one of them shouts "LINDUS!", which I assume is pseudo latin for "Lindy Hop".

[chriskcr]

chrsker to trumetvids every time i play well git it it's still ziggy and jimmy zito whether it"s in color or black and white . peterson was on the original 78 .