{"id":2198,"date":"2022-02-26T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T16:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/26\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-1940s-proto-rock\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T16:56:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T16:56:03","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-1940s-proto-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/26\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-some-1940s-proto-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some 1940’s Proto-Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freddie Slack and Will Bradley Trio (1940), Down the Road A Piece<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you like to boogie woogie, I know the place.<\/span>
It's just an old piano and a knocked out bass.<\/span>
The drummer man's a guy they call Eight Beat Mack.<\/span>
And you remember Doc and old "Beat Me Daddy" Slack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man it's better than chicken fried in bacon grease<\/span>
Come along with me, boys, it's just down the road a piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ella Mae Morse (1945), The House of Blue Lights.<\/a>  Shows that 'square' and 'daddy-o' and 'dig' were already in use in the '40s.  I had been laboring under the misapprehension that this patois first surfaced in Beat\/Beatnik circles in the '50s.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freddie Slack and Will Bradley Trio (1940), Down the Road A Piece. If you like to boogie woogie, I know the place.It's just an old piano and a knocked out bass.The drummer man's a guy they call Eight Beat Mack.And you remember Doc and old "Beat Me Daddy" Slack. Man it's better than chicken fried in … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some 1940’s Proto-Rock”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,407,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-manners-and-mores","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}