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Originally called Barrelhouse. Boogie Woogie was more of a Piano musical style (C,G,A,G) than a dance with Pinetop Smith writing the first official Boogie Woogie song in 1928. However, there were main parts of the music style as far back as 1900.
If there is such a dance, it is known as swing dancing (any style) usually called "Jump Swing" done to faster Blues or Boogie-Woogie music, hence the term "Let's Boogie" (Move Out, Go, Get it in Gear) as well as the term "boogie" meaning: let loose, don't hold back, get down etc. Boogie Woogie Music is not always fast however and can be danced to this slower form, usually among the West Coast Swing Dancers. 'Eight to the Bar' is basically a double boogie Woogie, these Piano Keys ARE HIT TWICE, such as (Cx2,Gx2,Ax2,Gx2).
Country Boogie basically are the piano keys: C,G,E,G (can be done eight to the bar also) a shuffle rhythm can also be applied.
In 1938 The Cotton Club Revue featured Cab Calloway and the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. Cab sang and the Hoppers danced to the song "A Lesson In Jive" and it is said the Boogie-Woogie dance formed from this. Not all Boogie Woogie is fast however, some Boogie-Woogie beats have an excellent feel for slower swing music with a BOOGIE WOOGIE beat. West Coast Swing, Hollywood style and Jitterbug were all Boogie Woogie dances when the music became fast. Movements would sometimes consist of Jumps, Stomps, Flying Feet, Hops etc. The movements are not sloppy but tight and clean considering the speed at times. The boogie Woogie has a definite distinctive 8 beat rhythm that makes you want to swing.
Rockabilly style was a fusion of Blues and Boogie Woogie by white singers or musicians such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis etc. Today the Europeans have a dance they call 'Boogie Woogie' , It is in the Le Roc / Ceroc / Jive family of swing dances (It is not Lindy Hop!.) It works on the East Coast Swing / Jive basic of 1-2-3a4-5a6. There are two styles: 1) Floorwork (no aerials) 2) Acrobatic (Gymnastic-Lifts etc.) [This style will probably eventually be the dancesport usage in the Olympics].
New Orleans
c.1910
George W. Thomas
Swing
1912 - That Syncopated Boogie Boo
1911 - New Orleans Hop Scop Blues (Thomas)
The Shine Boogie
1927 - Honky Tonk Train Blues (Lewis)
1949 - Be Bop Boogie
1928 - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
1941 - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Co. B.
1953 - Boogie Woogie Maxixe
1990s - Boogie and Beethoven
Boarding House Blues
1940 - Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues
Buck and Bubbles
Bumble Bee Boogie
Dirtie Gertie from Harlem USA
1940s - Cow Cow Boogie
Follow The Boys
Jump, Jive and Wail
House Rent Party
Minuet Boogie (Pete Johnson)
Juke Joint
Pitch a Boogie Woogie
Royal Crown Revue
$ Boogie Woogie Trio I (CD)
Swingers
Swing Kids
Beware - Louis Jordan
All Swing Nightclubs/ Ballrooms
1938 - Carnegie Hall
n/a
Cotton Club
Palomar Ballroom
Savoy Ballroom
1936 - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (Film Short)
1989 - Black and Blue
1942 - Boogie Woogie Dream*
1942 - Cow Cow Boogie* (Dandridge)
1942 - Spirit Of Boogie-Woogie
$1944 - Pin Up Girl
1945 - Scotch Boogie
1945 - T.G. Boogie Woogie
1947 - No More Mr. Ghost (Cecil Grant)
1947 - Queen Of The Boogie
1948 - Boogie Woogie Blues*
$1948 - Melody Time (Animated)
1948 - Pitch a Boogie Woogie
Groovie Movie
$1967 -Jungle Book
$1979 - Roller Boogie (Disco Skate)
$1997 - Boogie Nights (Disco)
1930-39 - 20th Century News Reel (32:10)
Bug
East Coast Swing
Jump Swing
Push
Carolina Shag
Flying Lindy
Lindy (Hop)
Rock and Roll
Ceroc / Leroc
Jitterbug
Mess Around
The Slop
Double Shuffle Speed Swing
Jive
New Yorker
West Coast Swing
Encyclopedia Of Jazz
Feather, Leonard
1955
Horizon Press
$ Albert Ammons (1907-1949)
Andrew Sisters
$ Clarence Williams (1893-1965)
$ Count Basie (1904-1984)
$ Cow Cow Davenport (1894-1955)
$ Fats Waller (1904-1943)
George W. Thomas (c.1910)
$ Jimmy E. Yancey (1898-1951)
$ Louis Jordan (1908-1975)
$ Louis Prima (1911-1978)
$ Meade Lux Lewis (c.1927)
$ Pete Johnson (1904-1967)
Clarence 'Pinetop' Smith (1904-1929)
8 to the bar
Blue Note
Honky-tonk
Rockabilly
12 Bar Blues
Cathouse
Hop
Shine
45's rpm records
Double Boogie
Stomp
American Bandstand
Field Hollers
Jump Blues
Stride Piano
Barrelhouse
Gin Mills
Rent-Party
Western Swing
Some Lyrics from a popular Boogie Woogie Big Band Song (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B)
He was a famous trumpet man from old Chicago wayyyyyyy!, He had a boogie style that no one else could play, He was the top man at- his- craft, But then his number came up and he was gone with the draft, He's in the army now, a-blowin' reveille, He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B............
They made him blow a bugle for his Uncle Sammmmm, It really brought him down, because he couldn't jam, The Captain seemed to understand, Because the next day the Cap' went out and drafted a band, And now the company jumps ... ... when he plays reveille, He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B..............