Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is a 1941 song that was recorded in the original version by the Andrews Sisters and became very popular during World War II . The song was voted 6th in the 2001 Songs of the Century election hosted by the RIAA .
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The song was written and composed by Don Raye and Hughie Prince and is based on their earlier hit Beat me Daddy, Eight to the bar . On January 2, 1941, the original version was recorded by the Andrew Sisters in the Hollywood studios of Decca , just under a year before the United States entered World War II. The title was first introduced in the " Abbott and Costello " film Buck Privates ; Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy was then nominated for an Oscar in the Best Song category.
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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is about a talented young trumpeter from Chicago who is widely admired. When he is drafted into the army to accompany the war marches, he is initially unhappy because his talent is not being used. However, when a band is added to his side, he is satisfied and makes the whole company dance and thus distracts them from the war.
Cover versions, parodies and tributes
- Bette Midler covered the song in 1973 and achieved a hit: The song reached number 8 on the US Billboard charts and stayed in the top 10 for two weeks.
- In 1976, Earl Wilson was sued by MCA Music on copyright issues for using a sexually suggestive parody of the song in Phil Oesterman's musical "Let My People Go" .
- The group En Vogue recorded the track in 1990 for their debut album Born to Sing .
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy was the 2006 debut single for The Puppini Sisters trio .
- Christina Aguilera's 2007 hit Candyman is heavily based on the song. This is also evident in the video clip in which Aguilera portrays all three Andrew Sisters.
- In the series "Outlander", which is about a journey through time of a woman from the end of the Second World War to the year 1743, she appears with a "Scottish version" of the song and has great success with it (season 1, episode 14).
- The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 25 (as of 2015) cover versions of the pop song in the field of jazz , from 1941 a. a. by Gene Krupa and His Orchestra , Woody Herman and His Orchestra , The Squadronaires , Eddie Brunner , Sugar Chile Robinson , Juliusz Skowronski and Joe Webster .
- In 2017, the US a cappella band Pentatonix released a cover of the song. Before that, they had already used a short part of the title in their "Evolution of Music" medley.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/cases/case_mcawilson.html
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)