[Ads-l] funky beat

[Ben Zimmer]

Online transcriptions suggest it's actually "As his bride starts to stride
to a boogie beat," and that's what it sounds like to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00caflStiWc

(Unless the movie has a different version?)

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:28 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

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