Will Bradley

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Down The Road A Piece 00:00 Tools
Flying Home 00:00 Tools
Celery Stalks At Midnight 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar 00:00 Tools
I Thought About You 00:00 Tools
Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat 00:00 Tools
Down the Road Apiece 00:00 Tools
Scrub Me Mama (Swing Republic - Remix) 00:00 Tools
In A Little Spanish Town 00:00 Tools
Down The Road A-Piece 00:00 Tools
This Little Icky Went To Town 00:00 Tools
Five O'clock Whistle 00:00 Tools
April In Paris 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver Boogie 00:00 Tools
The Booglie Wooglie Piggy 00:00 Tools
Basin Street Boogie 00:00 Tools
Three Ring Ragout 00:00 Tools
Rock-A-Bye The Boogie 00:00 Tools
There I Go 00:00 Tools
Rock A Bye The Boogie 00:00 Tools
Flying Home (arr. F. Henderson) 00:00 Tools
Scrub Me Mama 00:00 Tools
Bounce Me Brother With a Solid Four 00:00 Tools
Jingle Bells Boogie 00:00 Tools
Jimtown Blues 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (feat. Ray McKinley) - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver 00:00 Tools
Wham (Re - bop, Boom, Bam!) 00:00 Tools
A City Called Heaven 00:00 Tools
Booglie Wooglie Piggy 00:00 Tools
Etude Brutus 00:00 Tools
Calery Stalks at Midnight 00:00 Tools
Strange Cargo 00:00 Tools
In the Hall of the Mountain King 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) 00:00 Tools
Old Doc Yak (arr. R. McKinley) 00:00 Tools
That's Her Mason Dixon Line 00:00 Tools
It's A Wonderful World 00:00 Tools
Fascination 00:00 Tools
Scrub Me Mama (Swing Republic 00:00 Tools
Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat 00:00 Tools
Chicken Gumboogie 00:00 Tools
Dearest, Darest I 00:00 Tools
Boogie Woogie Conga 00:00 Tools
Beat Me, Daddy, Eight To The Bar 00:00 Tools
Jim Town Blues 00:00 Tools
Scrub Me Mama, With a Boogie Beat (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
What'cha Know Joe 00:00 Tools
Fatal Fascination 00:00 Tools
Scramble Two 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar Part 1 00:00 Tools
Indian Boogie Woogie 00:00 Tools
Rhumboogie 00:00 Tools
Boogie Woogie Maxixe 00:00 Tools
Memphis Blues 00:00 Tools
Bounce Me Brother 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah (arr. M. Whitney) 00:00 Tools
One O'Clock Boogie 00:00 Tools
I Though About You 00:00 Tools
Bounce Me, Brother, With A Solid Four 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar Part 2 00:00 Tools
Very Warm for May: All The Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Celery Stalks at Midnight (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
Bounce Me Brother with a Solid Four (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
Watch The Clock 00:00 Tools
Down the Road a Piece (with Don Raye) 00:00 Tools
I Boogied When I Should Have Woogied 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Ba 00:00 Tools
All That Meat and No Potatoes 00:00 Tools
Old Doc Yak 00:00 Tools
When You and I Were Young, Maggie 00:00 Tools
Starlit Hour 00:00 Tools
Down the Road Apiece (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
Pinocchio: When You Wish Upon A Star 00:00 Tools
King Calypso (arr. F. Slack) 00:00 Tools
Chicken Gumboog(ie) 00:00 Tools
Basin Street Boogie (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
Five O'Clock Whistle [12H3] 00:00 Tools
Scrub Me Mama (Swing Republic Remix) 00:00 Tools
Back Beat Boogie 00:00 Tools
As Long As I Live 00:00 Tools
Old Doc Yack 00:00 Tools
Memphis Blues (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
Love Nest 00:00 Tools
Jimtown Blues (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
Boardwalk Boogie 00:00 Tools
Old Doc Yak (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
The Five O'Clock Whistle (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
Request For A Rhumba 00:00 Tools
Yancey Special 00:00 Tools
Honky Tonk Train Blues 00:00 Tools
The Yolo Anthem 00:00 Tools
Roll 'Em 00:00 Tools
Funny Face, Act I: Isn't it wonderful 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Mean To Me 00:00 Tools
Down The Road To A Piece 00:00 Tools
Say Si Si 00:00 Tools
I'm Comin' Virginia 00:00 Tools
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (feat. Ray McKinley) - Part 2 00:00 Tools
The Johnson Rag 00:00 Tools
The Booglie Wooglie Piggy (feat. Ray McKinley) 00:00 Tools
This Changing World 00:00 Tools
Dark Eyes 00:00 Tools
Celery Stalks At Midnight ('40) 00:00 Tools
Scrub Me, Mama, With A Boogie Beat 00:00 Tools
44-Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat 00:00 Tools
Will Bradley: Down The Road A-Piece 00:00 Tools
Reginella camoagnola, "Woodpecker song" 00:00 Tools
Southern Exposure 00:00 Tools
This Is The Beginning Of The End 00:00 Tools
Fry Me A Cookie 00:00 Tools
Forever More 00:00 Tools
Love Me a Little Little 00:00 Tools
Bugles In The Sky 00:00 Tools
Man, That's Groovy! 00:00 Tools
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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.