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Bugle Call Rag
Words- Jack Pettis. Music- Billy Meyers.
ARTIST: Recorded as instrumental by Monroe; Flatt & Scruggs others.
Listen: Bill Monroe- Bugle Call Rag
Listen: Gus Cannon- Bugle Call Rag
Listen: Tony Rice And Seldom Scene- Bugle Call Rag
CATEGORY: Fiddle and Instrumental Tunes. DATE: 1922- 1923.
OTHER NAMES: Bugle Call Blues (Cab Calloway)
RECORDING INFO: New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass, Elektra EKS-7238, LP (197?), cut# 14 Cannon's Jug Stompers. Cannon's Jug Stompers. The Complete Works. 1927-30, Yazoo 1082/3, Cas (1989), cut# 5 Clark, Roy; and Buck Trent. Banjo Bandits, ABC AY 1084, LP (1978), cut# 2. Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys. Foggy Mountain Banjo, Columbia LE 10043, LP (196?), cut# 11. Original Washboard Band. Scrubbin' and Pickin', RCA (Victor) LPM-1958, LP (1958), cut# 6. Smeck, Roy. Roy Smeck Plays Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele, and Guitar, Yazoo L-1052, LP (197?), cut# 13 .Snowden, Elmer; Quartet. Harlem Banjo, Riverside RLP 9349, LP (1961), cut#B.05. Travis, Merle. Maple Leaf Rag; Ragtime in Rural America, New1 World1 NW 235, LP (1976), cut# 2.
NOTES: Jack Pettis is also credited with composing a lyric for the tune "Bugle Call Rag" (with music by composer Billy Meyers), which was recorded by Benny Goodman's band as well as others.
This popular jazz tune has become a bluegrass standard. Listen to the rare live clip of Bill Monroe's 1954 band: Listen: Bill Monroe- Bugle Call Rag.
BUGLE CALL RAG-Jack Pettis circa 1922
VERSE: You're bound to fall, for the bugle call.
You're gonna brag, 'bout the Bugle Call Rag.
Thin or fat, young or old, shake their shoulders bold.
You're bound to fall, for the bugle call.
You're gonna brag, 'bout the Bugle Call Rag.
CHORUS: Hold me baby, let's syncopate to the blue melody.
Just hesitate, while a break they take,
Shh! While we're dancing please hold me tight, step lively, don't lag.
Swing along to that Bugle Call Rag.
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