2006-11-20 08:22:55 · 9 answers · asked by 2bbent 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
It's from a song that Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B. I think that the bar refers to a musical note on the eighth count but I'm really not sure.
2006-11-20 08:25:25 · answer #1 · answered by Marenight 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the saying was popularized by a song recorded by the Andrews Sisters but the meaning comes from slang of the time and refers to palying a stand-up bass. The bass player "slaps or beats" the strings to get a certain tone and "8 to a bar" would be 8 beats per bar which most "boogy woogy" music was written to.
2006-11-20 08:30:15 · answer #2 · answered by shifty67 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. It started in the "30's, 40's phrase used on an uptempo dance tune, as a command to the rhythm section (the drummer is "daddy" as in "daddy-o") to emphasize 8 beats to every bar of music, giving it a feel of double time (as opposed to 4 to a bar)
2. a command used by the singer to go to double time, such as after a chorus, to shout "beat me, daddy, eight to the bar!"1
The phrase was incorporated as a song lyric into a song by the same name by boogie woogie big band leader Will Bradley, who may have coined the phrase though it may have been in use before Bradley wrote the song. This song was recorded by many artists including the Andrews Sisters.
2006-11-20 08:57:33 · answer #3 · answered by lobster37 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Boogie Woogie" jazz expression from the Big Band era, late 1930s-early 1940s. In the space that you might count a typical measure of four beats, the "boogie woogie" player would play eight. Hence the request for uptempo "eight-to-the-bar" dance music as in the phrase "Beat me, etc."
2006-11-20 08:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means give me an 8/8 beat (or eight beats to a bar). Daddy is just slang a kin to "daddy-o".
2006-11-20 08:27:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know really where it came from. I believe it was in the Andrews Sisters(popular singing group during WWII) "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" song. I believe it has something to do with eight notes to the bar. (in music) If you had 8 notes to the bar you would be playing pretty fast.
2006-11-20 08:26:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
30's, 40's phrase used on an uptempo dance tune, as a command to the rhythm section (the drummer is "daddy" as in "daddy-o") to emphasize 8 beats to every bar of music, giving it a feel of doubletime (as opposed to 4 to a bar)
hope that covers it
2006-11-20 08:25:59 · answer #7 · answered by aka.rene 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
8 to the bar is a music term, 8 beats in a bar of music, it meant he wants an 8 beat rythem
2006-11-20 08:25:28 · answer #8 · answered by parental unit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
honestly..i have never heard that before....EVER.
2006-11-20 08:25:30 · answer #9 · answered by Jamie* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋