Patty was the youngest of the sisters whose hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B.
One of their biggest hits was "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, " which became a World War II anthem.
His piano playing featured hints of both bebop and boogie woogie.
Mr. John Cash (Singer): (Singing) When the Luther plays the boogie woogie, Luther plays the boogie woogie, Luther plays the boogie woogie, Luther plays the boogie woogie, Luther plays the boogie woogie, Luther plays the boogie woogie, Luther plays the boogie woogie...
The city is still sprinkled with musicians who came of age in the 1950s and 1960s, when New Orleans was a hit factory cranking out million-selling records by Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles and Huey (Piano) Smith ("Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu").
I'm gonna do you a little boogie on this here piano, doing mighty fine, I'm gonna make you shake it, I'll make you do it and make you do it until you break it, it's called the Lewis boogie, in the Lewis way, Lord, I do my little boogie woogie every day.
Well, I felt so good and I went on boogie-woogie just the same, yes.
Mr. MYERS: Two fisted boogie-woogie was all the rage by the late 1930s.
Mr. MYERS: The slang boogie-woogie most likely evolved from booger rooger(ph), a phrase first coined by Texas blues Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Mr. MYERS: Even before Jerry Lee and the dawning of rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie was shifting away from the piano to electric guitar.
Mr. MYERS: Now if you listen to Lux Lewis' "Honky Tonk Train Blues, " you can hear how boogie-woogie echoed the railroad rhythms of old steam locomotives from the early 20th century.
And Pinetop showed the other two his timeless boogie-woogie.
Mr. MYERS: The jumping boogie sound even made it into high society when those three, calling themselves the Boogie-Woogie Trio, performed at Carnegie Hall for the now famous Spiritual Swing Concert in 1938.
Mr. MYERS: In "Hellfire, " Nick Tosches' biography of Jerry Lee, Nick recounts the scene where young Lewis was playing a Pentecostal hymn at a chapel service, and the preacher shot him a glance of reproach for he was playing it boogie-woogie style.
Somewhere along the line of woogie was lost and became just plain old boogie.
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