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"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a
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song written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince which was introduced by
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in the
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, '' Buck Privates'' (1941). The Andrews Sisters' Decca recording reached number six on the U.S. pop singles chart in the spring of 1941 when the film was in release. The song is ranked No. 6 on Songs of the Century.
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's 1972 recording of the song also reached the top ten on the U.S. ''
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'' Hot 100. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was nominated for the
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but lost to "
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". The song is closely based on an earlier Raye-Prince hit, "
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" is a song written in 1940 by Don Raye, Hughie Prince, and Ray McKinley. It follows the American boogie-woogie tradition of syncopated piano music. Background The title adopts 1940s' hipster slang coined by Raye's ...
," which is about a virtuoso boogie-woogie piano player.


Storyline

According to the lyrics, a renowned trumpet player from
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is drafted into the
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but is reduced to blowing the wake-up call (reveille). Restrained from playing boogie-woogie, he is depressed until the captain empathizes and drafts other musicians. The bugler now plays reveille in his own style, with a positive effect on the rest of the company.


Creation

Abbott and Costello's first starring film for
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pictures, '' Buck Privates'', was designed to capitalize on the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The studio added the Andrews Sisters, who were also under contract, for musical relief, and hired
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and Hughie Prince to compose songs for the film. (The sisters also performed songs written by others in the film.) Raye and Prince had previously composed the hits "Rhumboogie" and "
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" for the trio. The songwriters turned in "You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "Bounce Me Brother, With a Solid Four", while also composing a novelty tune, "When Private Brown Becomes a Captain", for Lou Costello. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" closely follows the template of "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", which is about a famous syncopated piano player. However, in its earliest stages, "Boogie Woogie Bugler" (as it was then known) was originally conceived for Lou Costello, but reworked for the Andrews Sisters, while a separate song was composed for the comedian.


Inspiration

Articles published in '' Stars & Stripes'' on 19 March 1943, as well as ''Billboard Magazine'' and ''The Christian Science Monitor'' during WWII claimed that Clarence Zylman of
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, was the original Boogie Woogie Bugler. The song's lyrics agree with several aspects of Zylman's life. Drafted at age 35, Clarence had been performing for 20 years, beginning with Chicago radio station WBBM and then with several big bands, beginning with Paul Specht and Connie Connaughton, and most recently with the Tommy Tucker Orchestra. He brought his playing style to
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where he was a bugler for an engineer company, playing Taps and Reveille. He eventually was transferred to an army band. Articles in ''
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) support this, and go on to claim that Clarence was sent to teach other buglers his techniques. However, Clarence Zylman did not enlist in the Army until June 9, 1942, well after "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was written and recorded. Nonetheless, a sculpture of Zylman as the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy has been dedicated in his hometown of Muskegon, Michigan, at the LST-393 Veterans Museum. The sculpture was created by artist Ari Norris. A more likely claimant to the title—though he seldom mentioned it—was Harry L. Gish, Jr. (1922–2005), who recorded with songwriters Raye and Prince. At age 17, after a meteoric rise in the mid-1930s based out of the Ritz Hotel in
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, Gish ventured to
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where he appeared (studio only) with the Will Bradley "All Star Orchestra" with highly regarded solos on the Raye-Prince songs "Celery Stalks at Midnight", "Scrub Me Mama With a Boogie Beat" and "The Boogilly Woogilly Piggie". He also performed with the Olsen & Johnson (of '' Hellzapoppin''' fame) band, Ray Anthony and was popular in the
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( Lake Placid) area before returning to
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in Chicago. He also had a "summer replacement" radio show there for CBS from WBBM radio. In the 1980s and 1990s, he honored many requests to play at services for veterans' funerals, and in 1995, in the character of The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (still able to fit in his World War II uniform: he enlisted in the Army Air Corps) he opened the combined service units (
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and others) celebration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in
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, where he opened with "
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" and closed the ceremony with " Taps."


Bette Midler version

American actress and singer
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included a cover of the song on her 1972 ''
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'' album, and released it as the B side of the album's second single, "
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". However, faced with the near-simultaneous release of
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's rendition (which would peak at #1 on both the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts), the single was quickly flipped, with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" becoming the new A side. Midler's version peaked at number eight on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart in mid-1973, introducing it to a new generation of pop music fans. The single was produced by Barry Manilow. The track was also a number-one single on the ''Billboard''
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chart.


Chart performance


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


Other versions

*
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have recorded at least four different versions on different labels. The Original on
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in 1941, V-Disc in 1944,
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in 1956, and
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in 1962. *In 1990, pop/R&B group
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did a shortened version of the song for their album '' Born to Sing'', rewording it to sound more urban, i.e. "boogie woogie hip hop boy". *In 1991,
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recorded the song as an inspiration for the military and as part of her USO tour for
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and
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. *In 1995, UK dance act Two In A Tank produced a dance version called ''Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Don't Stop''. *In 1997, the Kidsongs Kids and the Biggles recorded the song for their Kidsongs video "I Can Do It!". *In 2003, Brighton downtempo act Backini remixed a version called ''Company B Boy'' for their album ''Threads''. *In 2006, the Puppini Sisters recorded the song for their album '' Betcha Bottom Dollar''. *In 2007, R&B/Gospel group Jerry Lawson and Talk of the Town recorded the song on their album ''Jerry Lawson Talk of the Town''. *On their 2008 ''Live in Concert'' DVD, the
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sang this song. *In 2010, on ''VH1 Divas Salute The Troops'', the song was performed by
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,
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and Jennifer Nettles. *In 2015, Rebecca Ferguson,
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and
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performed the song at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember in London. *In 2015, Brazilian vocal trio Cluster Sisters recorded the song for their self-titled debut album. *In 2017,
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published an a cappella cover of the song as part of their ''
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'' EP. They had previously included a fragment of the song their medley "Evolution of music" *The song was rearranged by Diana Rock and Mia Yamasaki on the album "Bop Mille Donte You Doo?" and the film "Company B Would Be There".


Homage

* The song inspired the 1941 cartoon ''Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B'' produced by
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. * The song is referenced in the
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, ''
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'' in the song, "The Boogie Woogie Bakery Man" written by
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. * The song was parodied on an early 1980s episode of Chicago-based horror movie show '' Son of Svengoolie'' as "The Boogie-Woogie Bogeyman of Berwyn". *
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covered the song in the
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episode, ''Just One of the Girls''. * In the sitcom ''
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'', episode "Nuts to War Part 2", Earl, Roy, and Charlene dress up as USO girls and sing the song. * In the 2nd-season episode "Flaming Forties" of '' Mama's Family'', Thelma "Mama" Harper ( Vicki Lawrence), Fran Crowley ( Rue McClanahan), and Naomi Harper ( Dorothy Lyman) impersonate
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and sing the song to entertain the classmates of Thelma's grandkids Buzz & Sonia after the band Medication that was hired failed to show up. * In the 2nd-season episode "Lucy & The Andrews Sisters" of ''
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'', Patty Andrews guest stars and sings a medley of Andrews Sisters hits which includes this song with
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playing LaVerne Andrews,
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playing Maxene Andrews and
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*
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and Linda Perry wrote " Candyman" (released as a single in 2007) from Aguilera's hit album '' Back to Basics'', as a tribute to the Andrews Sisters and their "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy". * The Miami-based girl group Company B took their name from the song. They recorded their own version of the song in 1989. * In the ''
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'' song "Dance Myself to Sleep", Ernie has Rubber Duckie play the bugle and calls him "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Duck of Sesame Street." * On an episode of ''
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'', Whitley, Kim, and Jaleesa dress up in military attire and sing "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" to pay homage to their friend Zelmer (played by
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), who is about to depart for war in the
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. * One championship winning clip featured on ABC's ''
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'' was entitled "Boogie Woogie Booger Boy" which is a take off on the song's name. *The song was featured in the miniseries, '' The Shining'', with
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as the conductor. * Albert Ammons recorded a boogie-woogie piano elaboration of the Andrews Sisters original, released in February 1944, when the musicians' strike ended. * The song is featured in the cafe scenes in the movie '' Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front''. * The ''
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'' episode " Catch 'Em If You Can" features an elderly man listening to the song on a 1940s radio that he carries on his shoulder. Grampa Simpson struts along the beach in Miami as the song plays. * An animatronic toy created by Gemmy Industries called the "Sing & Swing Bear" sung this song and danced to it. * In May 2015, the movie ''
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'' used it as reference to returning to basics and to help the "Barden Bellas" rediscover their original sound. * In episode 14 of the first season of Starz's '' Outlander'', Claire suggests to Murtaugh that they add a song to liven up the dance Murtaugh is performing along the road to attract Jamie's attention. The song she sings is "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," but since it is 1743, Murtaugh has obviously never heard the song. He likes the tune, however, and Claire ends up performing a traditional bawdy Scots song "The Reels o' Bogie" to the tune of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." *Comedy duo Morecambe & Wise mimed to the song along with Leonard Rossiter during a 1978 episode of The Morecambe and Wise Show.


Samples

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is one of the tracks that was sampled for "
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" by
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, which appeared on both the 1983 EP '' Into Battle with the Art of Noise'' and their debut studio album '' Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise?'' (1984).


Copyright lawsuit

The adult-oriented stage musical '' Let My People Come'' featured the song "The Cunnilingus Champion of Company C". It became the subject of a lawsuit filed by MCA Music against composer Earl Wilson Jr., and which was decided in favor of the plaintiffs in 1976. The court found that the song, which openly borrows the "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" melody, "could not be construed as a burlesque of plaintiff's work per se", but was merely a "commentary on an era" and therefore was not protected by
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. As a result, the defendants were found liable for
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.


See also

* List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1973 (U.S.)


References


External links


The Puppini Sisters' official website
(featuring a sample of their version)
Jerry Lawson's official website
Columbia Law School Arthur W. Diamond Law Library Music Plagiarism Project. * {{authority control Songs of World War II Songs about the military Boogie-woogie songs Songs about music Songs about musicians Songs about trumpets Songs about soldiers Songs written for films 1941 songs 1941 singles 1973 singles Atlantic Records singles The Andrews Sisters songs Bette Midler songs Songs written by Don Raye Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Pop standards Songs written by Hughie Prince