Boogie on Down

[thebes]

Yes my children (or chillin) as the singer might say, it's time to go 8 beat to the back bar and do a little boo gye woogie.

Toe tapping with an irresistable beat, a sense of time and place, a musical wonder crafted on these vary shores and used by modern rockers as diverse as Stevie Ray and the Stones. Gotta figure every piano player has this lick down.

Da, dah,da,dah!

Let's start it rolling and rockin with Stevie Ray's version of Chuck Barry's "No Money Down":

As I was motivatin'

Back in town

I saw a Cadillac sign

Sayin' "No Money Down"

So I eased on my brakes

And I pulled in the drive

Gunned my motor twice

Then I walked inside

Dealer came to me

Said "Trade in you Ford

And I'll put you in a car

That'll eat up the road

Just tell me what you want

And then sign on that line

And I'll have it brought down to you

In a hour's time"



I'm gonna get me a car

And I'll be headed on down the road

Then I won't have to worry

About that broken - down, ragged Ford



"Well Mister I want a yellow convertible

Four - door de Ville

With a Continental spare

And a wide chrome wheel

I want power steering

And power brakes

I want a powerful motor

With a jet off - take

I want air condition

I want automatic heat

And I want a full Murphy bed

In my back seat

I want short - wave radio

I want TV and a phone

You know I gotta talk to my baby

When I'm ridin' alone"



Yes I'm gonna get that car

And I'm gonna head on down the road

Yeah, then I won't have to worry

About that broken - down, ragged Ford



"I want four carburetors

And two straight exhausts

I'm burnin' aviation fuel

No matter what that cost

I want railroad air horns

And a military spot

And I want a five - year guarantee

On everything I got

I want ten - dollar deductible

I want twenty dollar notes

I want thirty thousand liability"

That's all she wrote



I got me a car

And I'm headed on down the road

No money down

I don't have to worry

About that broken - down, ragged Ford

[thebes]

It is characterized by a regular bass figure, an ostinato and the most familiar example of shifts of level, in the left hand which elaborates on each chord, and trills and decorations from the right hand.

It is not strictly a solo piano style, but is also used to accompany
singers and as a solo part in bands and small combos. It is sometimes
called "eight to the bar", as much of it is written in common time (4/4) time using eighth notes (quavers) (see time signature). The chord progressions are typically based on I - IV - V - I (with many formal variations of it, such as I/i - IV/iv - v/I, as well as chords that lead into these ones.

For the most part, boogie-woogie tunes are twelve-bar blues, although the style has been applied to popular songs like "Swannee River" and hymns like "(Just a) Closer Walk with Thee."

[oldbuckster]

sorta' like ..... "Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar" : Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen !!!!!!!!!!!!! ....... EH !!!!