[78-L] Records about Records

[Kristjan Saag]

Sure sounds like "bop", but available lyrics on the net say "Bach to 
Dixieland". Give it another listen and you'll as might as well hear it.
However, the word "bebop" was used in the late 1920's already as a scat 
syllable, and by Jack Teagarden (!) in 1936 in "I'se A Muggin".
According to the Wikipedia article on the word "bebop" it even became a 
word meaning scat songs in general in the late 1930's. But it doesn't 
mention the use of the shortening, "bop".

Here's an article by Ralph Gleason on the subject, from 1959, probably 
one of the sources for the Wiki article:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19590215&id=5LxOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_AAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6125,874814
My guess is he would have mentioned the Barnet record if the word "bop" 
was in it.
Kristjan



On 2020-04-20 03:06, Rodger J Holtin wrote:
> I mentioned this one in my list a few weeks ago. Stay Up Stan, The All 
> Night Record Man (Mayer-Willard Robison) - Charlie Barnet and His 
> Orchestra vocal by Charlie and Judy Ellington - July 17, 1939 BB-10373 
> I pulled it off the shelf this afternoon and gave it a spin. Now I 
> have a burning question. "He'll play you anything, Bop to Dixieland." 
> What would they have considered as Bop in the summer of 1939? I don't 
> think of Bop until post-war. What have I missed? Rodger Holtin 78-L 
> Member Since MCMXCVIII For Best Results Use Victor Needles


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