[Ads-l] funky beat

[Jonathan Lighter]

A song in the H'wood musical _You'll Never Get Rich!_ (1941) called "The
Wedding Cake Walk" contains the line, "His bride's got to stride with a
funky beat!" The lyrics are credited to Cole Porter.

This now ubiquitous collocation is unnoticed by OED, which has "funky" from
1935 (but applied to the piano-player, not the beat) and nothing again till
1954.

HDAS I not handy at the moment.

JL

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