His was a very distinctive strand of the music of this era

Will Bradley was a trombonist and bandleader who came to the fore during the swing and big band era of the late 1930s, and developed a strand of music during the early 1940s which took advantage of the then-current popularity of boogie-woogie music. Using a jazz and R&B-flavoured big band style, and often recording as a smaller group, he was aided in this by his featured drummer and singer Ray McKinley and his pianist Freddie Slack, who went on to have hits in his own right. Not all his recordings were boogie-woogie efforts, and he produced a great deal of stylish swing records, based around his trombone work, many of them featuring vocalists Ray McKinley, Jimmy Valentine, Louise Tobin, Lyn Gardner, Terry Allen and others. This 46-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on the Vocalion, Columbia, Joe Davis, Beacon and Signature labels from these years. It features his US No. 2 hits 'Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar' and 'Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat', plus his other hits 'Down The Road A Piece', 'Celery Stalks At Midnight', 'There I Go', 'High On A Windy Hill' and Cryin' The Boogie Blues'. His was a very distinctive strand of the music of this era, and he was one of the most noted hitmakers in the boogie-woogie genre.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Memphis Blues
• I Thought About You
• I'm Fit To Be Tied
• Mean To Me
• Swingin' A Dream
• Hallelujah!
• I'm Coming Virginia
• A Ghost Of A Chance
• Jimtown Blues
• It's A Wonderful World
• Flyin' Home
• O Sole Mio
• After I Say I'm Sorry
• Rhumboogie
• Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Pts. 1 & 2
• Strange Cargo
• In A Little Spanish Town
• Don't Let It Get You Down
• Celery Stalks At Midnight
• Down The Road A Piece
• Rock-A-Bye The Boogie
• Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat

Disc 2:

• There I Go
• Five O'Clock Whistle
• High On A Windy Hill
• Stardust
• Chicken Gumboogie
• Bounce Me Brother With A Solid Four
• It's Square But It Rocks
• That's Her Mason Dixon Line
• Think Of Me
• Booglie Wooglie Piggy
• Love Me A Little Little
• All That Meat And No Potatoes
• In The Hall Of The Mountain King
• I'm Tired Of Waiting For You
• Call It Anything, It's Love
• Basin Street Boogie
• April In Paris
• The Three B's
• Fry Me A Cookie With A Can Of Lard
• Cryin' The Boogie Blues
• Lightnin' Boogie
• Sugar Hill Boogie
• Turn The Knob On The Left To The Right
• Bop ‘N' Boogie

Additional Details

Label: Acrobat

Genre: Jazz

Language: English

Run Time: 141 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 05/08/26

UPC: 824046359324