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88137476 | Play | Down The Road A Piece | 00:00 Tools | |
36350887 | Play | Flying Home | 00:00 Tools | |
36350888 | Play | Celery Stalks At Midnight | 00:00 Tools | |
36350889 | Play | Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar | 00:00 Tools | |
36350890 | Play | I Thought About You | 00:00 Tools | |
36350891 | Play | Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat | 00:00 Tools | |
36350893 | Play | Down the Road Apiece | 00:00 Tools | |
36350892 | Play | Scrub Me Mama (Swing Republic - Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350894 | Play | In A Little Spanish Town | 00:00 Tools | |
36350896 | Play | Down The Road A-Piece | 00:00 Tools | |
36350895 | Play | This Little Icky Went To Town | 00:00 Tools | |
36350897 | Play | Five O'clock Whistle | 00:00 Tools | |
36350898 | Play | April In Paris | 00:00 Tools | |
36350927 | Play | Quicksilver Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350899 | Play | The Booglie Wooglie Piggy | 00:00 Tools | |
36350900 | Play | Basin Street Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350901 | Play | Three Ring Ragout | 00:00 Tools | |
36350902 | Play | Rock-A-Bye The Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350903 | Play | There I Go | 00:00 Tools | |
36350904 | Play | Rock A Bye The Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350923 | Play | Flying Home (arr. F. Henderson) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350906 | Play | Scrub Me Mama | 00:00 Tools | |
36350905 | Play | Bounce Me Brother With a Solid Four | 00:00 Tools | |
36350907 | Play | Jingle Bells Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350917 | Play | Jimtown Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36350911 | Play | Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (feat. Ray McKinley) - Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
36350908 | Play | Quicksilver | 00:00 Tools | |
36350943 | Play | Wham (Re - bop, Boom, Bam!) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350909 | Play | A City Called Heaven | 00:00 Tools | |
36350915 | Play | Booglie Wooglie Piggy | 00:00 Tools | |
89882542 | Play | Etude Brutus | 00:00 Tools | |
36350944 | Play | Calery Stalks at Midnight | 00:00 Tools | |
36350919 | Play | Strange Cargo | 00:00 Tools | |
36350910 | Play | In the Hall of the Mountain King | 00:00 Tools | |
36350920 | Play | Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350924 | Play | Old Doc Yak (arr. R. McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350914 | Play | That's Her Mason Dixon Line | 00:00 Tools | |
36350929 | Play | It's A Wonderful World | 00:00 Tools | |
36350912 | Play | Fascination | 00:00 Tools | |
36350913 | Play | Scrub Me Mama (Swing Republic | 00:00 Tools | |
36350922 | Play | Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat | 00:00 Tools | |
36350918 | Play | Chicken Gumboogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350916 | Play | Dearest, Darest I | 00:00 Tools | |
36350948 | Play | Boogie Woogie Conga | 00:00 Tools | |
36350921 | Play | Beat Me, Daddy, Eight To The Bar | 00:00 Tools | |
36350926 | Play | Jim Town Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36350951 | Play | Scrub Me Mama, With a Boogie Beat (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350925 | Play | What'cha Know Joe | 00:00 Tools | |
36350932 | Play | Fatal Fascination | 00:00 Tools | |
36350928 | Play | Scramble Two | 00:00 Tools | |
36350930 | Play | Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
36350931 | Play | Indian Boogie Woogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350938 | Play | Rhumboogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350946 | Play | Boogie Woogie Maxixe | 00:00 Tools | |
36350934 | Play | Memphis Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36350935 | Play | Bounce Me Brother | 00:00 Tools | |
36350962 | Play | Hallelujah (arr. M. Whitney) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350941 | Play | One O'Clock Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350947 | Play | I Though About You | 00:00 Tools | |
36350933 | Play | Bounce Me, Brother, With A Solid Four | 00:00 Tools | |
36350936 | Play | Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
36350953 | Play | Very Warm for May: All The Things You Are | 00:00 Tools | |
88137477 | Play | Celery Stalks at Midnight (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
88137478 | Play | Bounce Me Brother with a Solid Four (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350937 | Play | Watch The Clock | 00:00 Tools | |
89882543 | Play | Down the Road a Piece (with Don Raye) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350939 | Play | I Boogied When I Should Have Woogied | 00:00 Tools | |
36350940 | Play | Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Ba | 00:00 Tools | |
36350942 | Play | All That Meat and No Potatoes | 00:00 Tools | |
36350949 | Play | Old Doc Yak | 00:00 Tools | |
36350950 | Play | When You and I Were Young, Maggie | 00:00 Tools | |
88137479 | Play | Starlit Hour | 00:00 Tools | |
88137490 | Play | Down the Road Apiece (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
88137483 | Play | Pinocchio: When You Wish Upon A Star | 00:00 Tools | |
36350952 | Play | King Calypso (arr. F. Slack) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350945 | Play | Chicken Gumboog(ie) | 00:00 Tools | |
88137480 | Play | Basin Street Boogie (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
88137482 | Play | Five O'Clock Whistle [12H3] | 00:00 Tools | |
36350955 | Play | Scrub Me Mama (Swing Republic Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350957 | Play | Back Beat Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
36350964 | Play | As Long As I Live | 00:00 Tools | |
36350959 | Play | Old Doc Yack | 00:00 Tools | |
36350965 | Play | Memphis Blues (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350966 | Play | Love Nest | 00:00 Tools | |
36350982 | Play | Jimtown Blues (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350954 | Play | Boardwalk Boogie | 00:00 Tools | |
88137481 | Play | Old Doc Yak (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350976 | Play | The Five O'Clock Whistle (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350956 | Play | Request For A Rhumba | 00:00 Tools | |
36350975 | Play | Yancey Special | 00:00 Tools | |
36350963 | Play | Honky Tonk Train Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
36350958 | Play | The Yolo Anthem | 00:00 Tools | |
36350977 | Play | Roll 'Em | 00:00 Tools | |
36350967 | Play | Funny Face, Act I: Isn't it wonderful | 00:00 Tools | |
36350960 | Play | Stardust | 00:00 Tools | |
36350970 | Play | Mean To Me | 00:00 Tools | |
36350972 | Play | Down The Road To A Piece | 00:00 Tools | |
88137485 | Play | Say Si Si | 00:00 Tools | |
88137486 | Play | I'm Comin' Virginia | 00:00 Tools | |
88137491 | Play | Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (feat. Ray McKinley) - Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
36350980 | Play | The Johnson Rag | 00:00 Tools | |
88137487 | Play | The Booglie Wooglie Piggy (feat. Ray McKinley) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350981 | Play | This Changing World | 00:00 Tools | |
36350979 | Play | Dark Eyes | 00:00 Tools | |
36350968 | Play | Celery Stalks At Midnight ('40) | 00:00 Tools | |
36350983 | Play | Scrub Me, Mama, With A Boogie Beat | 00:00 Tools | |
36350971 | Play | 44-Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat | 00:00 Tools | |
36350973 | Play | Will Bradley: Down The Road A-Piece | 00:00 Tools | |
89882544 | Play | Reginella camoagnola, "Woodpecker song" | 00:00 Tools | |
88137489 | Play | Southern Exposure | 00:00 Tools | |
36350974 | Play | This Is The Beginning Of The End | 00:00 Tools | |
36350978 | Play | Fry Me A Cookie | 00:00 Tools | |
88137492 | Play | Forever More | 00:00 Tools | |
89882545 | Play | Love Me a Little Little | 00:00 Tools | |
36350969 | Play | Bugles In The Sky | 00:00 Tools | |
88137493 | Play | Man, That's Groovy! | 00:00 Tools |
Bradley was born Wilbur Schwitchenberg on July 12, 1912 in Newton, New Jersey and died on July 15, 1989. Will Bradley will always be remembered most for his boogie-woogie orchestra of the early 1940s. Bradley himself, however, preferred to play ballads and had a long and successful career as a trombonist outside of his band. Bradley was a busy studio musician throughout the 1930s, working with such artists as Red Nichols, Eddie Cantor, Victor Young. Jacques Renard, Nat Shilkret, Andre Kostelanetz, Raymond Paige, Kate Smith, and Al Jolson. In 1935 Glenn Miller, who thought Bradley the best trombonist in the business, hired him to play in Ray Noble's American band, which Miller was organizing. He left Noble the following year, however, and returned to studio work. Bradley also played with Milt Shaw's orchestra in 1931, where he met drummer Ray McKinley. Bradley's name was unknown to the general public when in 1939 William Morris talent agent Willard Alexander suggested he form a swing orchestra. Trombone-playing leaders, such as Miller and Tommy Dorsey, were currently popular, and Alexander felt Bradley would do well on his own. Drummers were also the rage, and Alexander teamed Bradley with old bandmate McKinley, who was then with Jimmy Dorsey. Backed by a powerful publicity campaign the duo's orchestra debuted in 1939 under Bradley's name and soon had its first big hit in ''Celery Stalks.'' The band initially featured pianist Freddie Slack and a young Peanuts Hucko on tenor sax. Trumpeters Lee Castle and Pete Candoli later played with the group. Arrangements were provided by Hugo Winterhalter, Leonard Whitney, and Al Datz. McKinley sang on the more swinging numbers. Other vocalists included Carlotta Dale, Phyllis Miles, Louise Tobin, Larry Southern, and Jimmy Valentine. The group's first recordings were on the Vocalion and Okeh labels. Subsequent releases were on Columbia. In 1940 Bradley and McKinley began to feature the boogie woogie sound in their arrangements. Initial success with the song ''Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar'' sparked a slew of similar recordings, such as ''Bounce Me Brother, with a Solid Four'' and ''Scrub Me Mama, with a Boogie Beat.'' The new style proved popular with the public, and the band quickly developed a niche following. By early 1942, however, Bradley had tired of boogie-woogie and wanted to focus more on ballads. McKinley disagreed and left to form his own band. Bradley set about reforming his orchestra but was forced to hang up his baton after only six months due to the war. He lost too many musicians in the draft and was unable to replace them. The new orchestra did not enter the studio. Vocalists were Terry Allen and Lynn Gardner Bradley continued to record under his own name during the war, using studio musicians, on the Signature label. Ironically, considering the cause of his orchestra's break-up, in 1944 he released material on the Beacon/Celebrity label as Will Bradley and His Boogie Woogie Boys. In 1947 he also recorded with vocalist Anita O'Day on Signature, and in the 1950s he released three albums, which included one RCA collection of boogie woogie songs. Bradley worked often as a studio musician after the war and spent many years in the Tonight Show orchestra in the Johnny Carson era. In 1953 he had a brief spell with the Sauter-Finegan Band and also composed several classical works in his later years. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.