Description:
Howdy, Friends his signature tune offers a portrait of Ray McKinley’s career to 1953. There are four rare tracks, otherwise unavailable, of a lively jazz group he led in 1936, which included Skeets Herfurt and Joe Sullivan. Prominent are the big hits he enjoyed with Jimmy Dorsey The Love Bug Will Bite You and Will Bradley – a string of boogie style smashes Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar . . .. Then there are 11 exuberant tracks with his own orchestra Civilization . . . and two with rhythm section alone You Came A Long Way From St. Louis . . .. |
 Howdy Friends
Love In The First Degree
New Orleans Parade
Smack In The Back
Fingerwave
The Love Bug Will Bite You
Beat Me, Daddy, Eight To The Bar
Scrub Me, Mama, With A Boogie Beat
Chicken Gumboogie
Southpaw Sereande
Bounce Me, Brother, With A Solid Four
In The Hall Of The Mountain King
Down The Road A Piece
Borderline
Jiminy Crickets
Red Silk Stockings And Green Perfume
Civilisation (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)
Tambourine
You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
For You, My Love
Blue Moon
Memphis Blues
Long Gone
Rock-A-Bye The Boogie |
Personnel: Will Bradley, Billy Butterfield, Toots Camarata, Cutty Cutshall, Jimmy Dorsey, Chris Griffin, Skeets Herfurt, Peanuts Hucko, Dean Kincaide, Al Klink, Yank Lawson, Fud Livingston, Tony Mottola, Freddie Slack, Joe Sullivan, Joe Yukl, more |
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