78 RPM - Glenn Miller - Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar / Falling Leaves - Bluebird - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Glenn Miller
Label:	Bluebird
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	B-10876
Date:	27 Sep 1940
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	5 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$24
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PRICE GUIDE

$24

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Glenn Miller	Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar	Raye, Prince, Sheehy	Rate
B	Glenn Miller	Falling Leaves	Mack David, Frankie Carle	Rate

Notes

Glenn Miller And His Orchestra
A: Vocal refrain by Jack Lathrop
"Beat Me Daddy": Recorded Sep 12, 1940
"Falling Leaves": Recorded Sep 3, 1940.

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Comments and Reviews


fixbutte 11th Aug 2015		The Don Raye, Ray McKinley, and Freddie Slack connection was fruitful again with "Down The Road A Piece", written by Raye again who also does an uncredited vocal, and played by McKinley, Slack and bassist Doc Goldberg under the Will Bradley Trio flag (Columbia 35707, September 1940). The original lyrics, altered in the many cover versions, particularly by Amos Milburn, Chuck Berry and The Rolling Stones, mention the musicians as follows: The drummer man's a guy they call 'Eight Beat Mack' And you remember Doc and ol' 'Beat Me Daddy' Slack.



fixbutte 11th Aug 2015		Unfortunately, the video with the 1940 Bluebird recording is one of those that don't work for me in Germany. Anyway, the Miller's American Band Of The Allied Expeditionary Forces recording with the Ray McKinley vocal makes sense, as McKinley was not only the vocalist (and drummer) of the original version of "Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar" by Will Bradley And His Orchestra (Columbia 35530, June 1940) but also the inspiration of the song, written by Don Raye, see Wikipedia: The title adopts 1940s hipster slang coined by Raye's friend, Ray McKinley, a drummer and lead singer in the Jimmy Dorsey band in the 1930s. McKinley kicked off certain uptempo songs by asking pianist Freddie Slack – nicknamed "Daddy" – to give him a boogie beat, or "eight to the bar". For that reason Raye gave partial songwriting credit to McKinley. (The song was formally published under McKinley's wife's name, Eleanore Sheehy, because McKinley was under a songwriting contract with another publisher.)



Twitster 11th Aug 2015		The video of "Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar" below is performed by Miller's American Band Of The Allied Expeditionary Forces, featuring a Ray McKinley vocal. The number was taken from a transcribed Office of War Information (OWI) propaganda program commonly known as "The Wehrmacht Hour." The titles for this particular program (#6 in the series), were recorded in EMI's Abbey Road studios in London (yes, it's the same one the Beatles made famous) on November 27, 1944 and was aired on the ABSIE Network (American Broadcasting Station in Europe) on December 13th. The program was directed toward the common German soldier. It was hosted by Miller and German female announcer Ilse Weinberger.



W.B.lbl 31st Jul 2015		We know that Victor opened a plant in Indianapolis, IN in August 1939, and very likely they already had their Hollywood plant on North Sycamore (on which grounds occasional West Coast recording sessions were held); Camden, NJ, of course, is a given.



Twitster 29th Jul 2015		You and me both W. B. I've been tearing my hair out attempting to track these two down. Someone, somewhere must have an answer.



W.B.lbl 29th Jul 2015		I'm sure interested to know which plant signified what break in concentric circles within the label design as between {Images #808283 & 808284} and {Images #808285 & 808286}. We all know which plant signified what with respect to the later design.



BigBadBluesMan 22nd Feb 2015



BigBadBluesMan 22nd Feb 2015