[Ads-l] Antedating of "Boogie" (Style of Playing Blues)

[James Landau]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 11:36:51 Zone + 0000 the musically literate  "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
>boogie (OED, n.3, 2., 1940 [17 Apr.])>>1940 San Jose Mercury Herald 18 Mar. 11/1 (Genealogy Bank)
>>Joe Turner sings boogie blues.


what about the related term "boogie-woogie"?  This term was in use by 1941 in the song "The Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy." sung by the Andrews Sisters.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Woogie_Bugle_Boy which says the Andrews Sisters recorded the song January 2, 1941.  Unfortunately WIkipedia does not give the date of composition of the song, but it has to have been later than the Selective Service Act, signed into law September 16, 1940, since the song presupposes the draft.

James Landau
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