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Old Memories!!!! Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy???

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JD Seller

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I was reading a story tonight an it mentioned swing music and dancing. That flashed me back to my childhood. I can remember my Father and Mother dancing to that song. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy) It was one of the few "good" times I can remember the two of them having. They would have been in their early twenties at the time. They had all the moves down pat. I later asked my Mother about it. She said they used to have dance contests and that she an my father would go to them. She said they never won first but where second and third a lot. That really blew my mind in that I could not picture them doing that. It is funny how we look on our parents as never being just about like we were when young. LOL

So watch this video and for those a little older than me you may remember doing these dances.
Couple dancing swing style to
 
I watched Buck Privates the other night and they had the Andrews Sisters on it singing that song. Given that I wasn't born until '68, that was way before my time but, regardless of age, that's one of those songs that just has a beat that gets you hooked. Watching them sing it, and everyone dance, just adds to the whole experience.
Andrews sisters in Buck Privates
 
Reminds me of a time (my mother was in her 80s then) when I brought a fiddle along on a trip to visit her. She took the fiddle and played "Home Sweet Home" !! In all my days prior to that she had never mentioned that she knew how to play fiddle. Had learned from an older brother when they were young.
 
When I was in my 20's one time we were somewhere that there was a pinochle card game and my Dad was very good at it.Us kids were astounded-Dad never played any games that we knew of during our lives.He always just worked.Mom and Dad did do a little square dancing for a time,but that was about it. And when our youngest son was about 10 or 12,we were on vacation and played pool in a game room.He seemed amazed that I could shoot pool.Mark
 
We must have watched it on the same night. Just out of curiosity I looked the Andrews sisters up. Seems they came from very humble beginnings (started singing and dancing for money as young girls after their father's business failed). Some time in the late 40s early 50s they had a falling out because of their husbands and boyfriends and spent the next 30+ years squabbling among themselves.
 
Kind of like when I saw my dad pick up a baseball bat. I'd never seen him play sports in my life but he was going to bat against my older brother that was a pretty good pitcher. After a couple foul balls he cracked three in a row over the fence at the ball park we were practicing at with the rest of the team. It was an even bigger shock to my brother - he'd never had a single person hit a home run off him in a game (and he never did).

Turned out dad had played baseball in the army and then some Legion ball after he got out. Mom later said that was the first time she ever saw him - he was at bat and everyone in the crowd kind of paused to see how hard he was going to hit.
 

People used to know how to dance. Not anymore. I always wished I learned when my mother was still around to teach me. Dumb.
 
I was about 11 years old and my brother 15. One day my father pulled a harmonica out of his pocket and began playing, and playing very well. Up to then we had no idea he could do that.
 
Nice reminder. I surf youtube for this kind of stuff. Here's one by a band called "The Tractors" of all things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ASbKF3TB2c
 
Neat ,, The Andrews sisters ,,. WW2 era ,,. One of the only few experience of WW2 my Dad would freely and happily talk about.. He claims that he danced with one of the Andrews girls serveral times ,. he had a favorite , and she was great to talk with at the USO dances in California before heading west into island hopping hale,../ it was evident Mom didn't mind when we were All watching Buck Privates ,,. she asked him teasingly , which one was his girlfriend ?/and he would point out "that one on the end Rite there ,,. That's Her ".. Lol ,..
 
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