Will Bradley - Beat Me Daddy: The Singles Collection 1939-47 (2026)

Will Bradley was a trombonist and bandleader who came to the fore during the swing and big band era of the late 1930s, and developed a strand of music during the early 1940s which took advantage of the then-current popularity of boogie-woogie music. Using a jazz and R&B-flavoured big band style, and often recording as a smaller group, he was aided in this by his featured drummer and singer Ray McKinley and his pianist Freddie Slack, who went on to have hits in his own right. Not all his recordings were boogie-woogie efforts, and he produced a great deal of stylish swing records, based around his trombone work, many of them featuring vocalists Ray McKinley, Jimmy Valentine, Louise Tobin, Lyn Gardner, Terry Allen and others. This 46-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on the Vocalion, Columbia, Joe Davis, Beacon and Signature labels from these years. It features his US No. 2 hits "Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar" and "Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat", plus his other hits "Down The Road A Piece", "Celery Stalks At Midnight", "There I Go", "High On A Windy Hill" and Cryin' The Boogie Blues". His was a very distinctive strand of the music of this era, and he was one of the most noted hitmakers in the boogie-woogie genre.

Tracklist:
1-1 Will Bradley - Memphis Blues [2:58]
1-2 Will Bradley - I Thought About You [3:19]
1-3 Will Bradley - I'm Fit To Be Tied [2:59]
1-4 Will Bradley - Mean To Me [3:29]
1-5 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Swingin' A Dream [3:09]
1-6 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Hallelujah! [3:08]
1-7 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - I'm Coming Virginia [3:13]
1-8 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - A Ghost Of A Chance [3:20]
1-9 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Jimtown Blues [3:11]
1-10 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - It's A Wonderful World [2:44]
1-11 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Flyin' Home [3:15]
1-12 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - O Sole Mio [3:21]
1-13 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - After I Say I'm Sorry [3:00]
1-14 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Rhumboogie [2:58]
1-15 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar Pts. 1 & 2 [5:08]
1-16 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Strange Cargo [3:10]
1-17 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - In A Little Spanish Town [3:01]
1-18 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Don't Let It Get You Down [2:49]
1-19 Will Bradley Trio - Celery Stalks At Midnight [3:17]
1-20 Will Bradley Trio - Down The Road A Piece [3:07]
1-21 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Rock-A-Bye The Boogie [3:07]
1-22 Will Bradley & His Orchestra;Ray McKinley - Scrub Me Mama, With A Boogie Beat [3:05]
2-1 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - There I Go [3:07]
2-2 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Five O'Clock Whistle [3:14]
2-3 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - High On A Windy Hill [2:41]
2-4 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Stardust [3:16]
2-5 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Chicken Gumboogie [2:50]
2-6 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Bounce Me Brother With A Solid Four [3:09]
2-7 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - It's Square But It Rocks [3:17]
2-8 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - That's Her Mason Dixon Line [3:10]
2-9 Will Bradley & His Orchestra;Ray McKinley - Think Of Me [3:22]
2-10 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Booglie Wooglie Piggy [2:59]
2-11 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Love Me A Little Little [2:38]
2-12 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - All That Meat And No Potatoes [3:13]
2-13 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - In The Hall Of The Mountain King [2:59]
2-14 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - I'm Tired Of Waiting For You [3:11]
2-15 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Call It Anything, It's Love [3:07]
2-16 Will Bradley - Basin Street Boogie [3:24]
2-17 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - April In Paris [3:20]
2-18 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - The Three B's [3:06]
2-19 Will Bradley & His Orchestra;Ray McKinley - Fry Me A Cookie With A Can Of Lard [3:13]
2-20 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Cryin' The Boogie Blues [2:54]
2-21 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Lightnin' Boogie [2:37]
2-22 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Sugar Hill Boogie [2:57]
2-23 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Turn The Knob On The Left To The Right [2:32]
2-24 Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Bop ‘N' Boogie [3:06]