1940 HITS ARCHIVE: Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar (Pts 1 & 2) - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley, vocal)

[@ShermanWestlake]

That is FANTASTIC!

[@walpoleandworcester]

5 minutes of pure fun! Thank you Ray McKinley and Ray Bradley for this timeless classic!

[@JohnWanner]

An "alternate take" version for "Part 2/Side 2" section that I've NEVER heard!...that's amazing...and beautifully transferred complete with the quick switch from side 1 to side 2! Blown Away...love it! Thankyou for your work!!!!

[@the78prof72]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@moldyoldie7888]

Damn, the fidelity is better than the "official" releases, and no stinking reverb added! Thank you!

[@the78prof72]

You're very welcome (thanks for noticing).

[@moldyoldie7888]

@@the78prof72 Now maybe you could do something with Charlie Spivak's Autumn Nocturne. (No good deed goes unpunished.)

[@the78prof72]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll remaster it today from 78, though it's probably no better than the version in the Spivak CD "The OKeh and Columbia Years."

[@moldyoldie7888]

@@yellowbird5 Thank you. My parents' generation too. Yes, reverb on old recordings in retrospect was a bad idea. It's unfortunate that RCA reverbed so many of Glenn Miller's Chesterfield shows, for example. I'm sure you could think of other instances. I can.

[@randallhesse5011]

Yes, I realized a while ago. To almost always pick the 78prof download choice on KZbin. Lots of other choice don't even come close. The example I thinking of right now is Riders in the sky by Vaughn Monroe.

[@stonyrerootkit8922]

I inherited a copy of this Great record when I was was quite young, and played the Isht out it, especially Part/Side2! 🎈💒 There is a tonne of musical talent represented on this recording, may they all be at peace!!😀😎😏😻😸😺💤🙏

[@henrybrowne7248]

Side 2, aye? Damn I wish we could flip this here record right on over . .

[@henrybrowne7248]

OOPS . . I swear no sooner than I typed that, the damn thing DID literally flip over! It's one song both sides.

[@akamarcel3566]

When I hear this all I think of is "Go man go!!"

[@fromthesidelines]

Recorded on May 21, 1940.

[@michaelbenardo5695]

This song has always been a favorite of mine.

[@ericseal9027]

Damn, this is good! Makes me want to go back in time, to the "Savoy", in Harlem, or to the "Hollywood Canteen", in Hollywood and do some serious dancing!!

[@Santafunk]

Times may have been rough but shoot they were the times

[@Santafunk]

Not sure why, but this kind of music sure gets me excited

[@elizabethdraper8490]

Reminds me of when I was seven or eight years old. Found this in my dad's albums. LOVED this song!!

[@anthonyochocki6535]

LoL...that 'Daffy Duck cartoon, where he's a Talent Agent and Porky Pig is a Producer''...a quick send-up of this tune....

[@legoware]

Never knew this was the original version, very nice.

[@williambullard9599]

The ensemble between Slack and percussion is seamless. Great recording.

[@kingoftheforestgnomes8045]

Best dish-washin' music there is

[@hipsterdoofus1026]

thanks for part 2!( I've only ever heard part 1, I never knew there was a 2.)

[@the78prof72]

My pleasure....glad that you like it.

[@torbjornbrunzell5060]

swing it! My feet are jumpin

[@atompunk5575]

LET'S LINDY!!!

[@singsonggirl9267]

YES!!! I'll wear my poodle skirt!

[@williambullard9599]

Freddie Slack on the piano. He D the percussion drives this.

[@bohumilknop563]

Thanks!

[@zigfrid2010]

goooooooooooood! thanks!

[@DAN-lo5db]

boogie wogie big band music

[@Trombonology]

The story goes that one night at the Famous Door, Mac, instead of playing a two-bar break, simply shouted out "Beat me daddy eight to the bar!" Songwriters Don Raye and Hughie Prince approached the drummer, telling him that the phrase would make a great song title and that they'd cut him in for a third on authorship if they could use it. Mac agreed, getting around the fact that he had an exclusive songwriting contract with a different publisher from Raye and Prince by putting the name of his wife, Eleanore Sheehy, on the song. Later, Mac said, Ms Sheehy, with whom he parted ways, sold her share in the song for a mink stole. As we know, with the huge success of this eight-to-the-bar number, the band came to be known as boogie-woogie specialists; many humourously titled boogie numbers followed. It got to the point that leader Will, an extremely talented and versatile trombonist whom Glenn Miller deemed to be the best in the biz, wanted to devote a little more time to ballads. Ray, knowing that boogie was their bread and butter, felt differently and left the band to start his own outfit. Soloists, in order, are Freddie Slack, Joe Weidman and Will.

[@derekmtheriault]

#ugottalisten2b4udie Then when he plays, he gets a hand. The rhythm that he plays puts the cats in a trance. Nobody there ever bothers to dance.

[@jmontarsi]

as in hand job? LOL