1940 HITS ARCHIVE: Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar (Pts 1 & 2) - Will Bradley (Ray McKinley, vocal)

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Beat Me Daddy (Eight To The Bar) (Raye-Prince-Sheehy) by Will Bradley & his Orchestra, featuring Ray McKinley (vocal) and Freddie Slack (piano)

One of the year’s hottest-selling discs, Bradley’s “Beat Me Daddy” was followed by a number of other boogie-woogie themed hits for various artists throughout the early decade, many of them composed by Don Raye, who was the primary writer of this one. See also the Andrews Sisters version.

THE 1940 HITS ARCHIVE - a collection of commercial recordings and songs that proved popular during the calendar year 1940 (some were recorded in 1939) via sales, sheet music, and radio exposure.…plus some others that have gained increased recognition or have been shown to have had an impact during the decades that followed. .
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