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Well, I felt so good and I went on boogie-woogie just the same, yes.
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Mr. MYERS: Two fisted boogie-woogie was all the rage by the late 1930s.
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Mr. MYERS: The slang boogie-woogie most likely evolved from booger rooger(ph), a phrase first coined by Texas blues Blind Lemon Jefferson.
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Mr. MYERS: Even before Jerry Lee and the dawning of rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie was shifting away from the piano to electric guitar.
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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.
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And Pinetop showed the other two his timeless boogie-woogie.
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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.
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I'm going to do my little boogie-woogie everyday.
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I'm talking about the boogie-woogie flu.
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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.
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