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Being a music lover, and supporting a team whose best player is known as Boogie, I wanted to get together some music to get me in the mood for the upcoming season. So I went looking for songs I Iike and songs that have appropriate titles. Several styles of music have used the word "boogie".
We need to start with the master of the blues boogie, John Lee Hooker. His song Boogie Chillen was first released in 1948. This is probably the first time "boogie" was related to music. Here's a great version from 1971, with JLH playing with Canned Heat.
These guys know how to play the boogie. ZZ Top in 1982 doing La Grange. Same riff, different setting. And louder.
The next one is kind of obscure. Few if any of you will have heard of Catfish Hodge, unless you're from Detroit or you're like me and saw him in a club many years ago. I include it because the song title -- Boogieman Gonna Get Ya -- perfectly reflects what I hope is a frequent occurrence at Kings games this year. And, as a bonus, he talks about listening to John Lee Hooker records. The video for the song has disaappeared from YouTube, so this one contains the entire (1973) album. The song starts at 28:00, and be forewarned that there's some talk of substance abuse.
Switching musical styles, the Jackson Five had a song with a great title -- Blame It on the Boogie (1979).
Here's another one with a great title from Earth, Wind & Fire -- Boogie Wonderland.
Just ran into the limit on five items of media in a post, so more to come.
We need to start with the master of the blues boogie, John Lee Hooker. His song Boogie Chillen was first released in 1948. This is probably the first time "boogie" was related to music. Here's a great version from 1971, with JLH playing with Canned Heat.
These guys know how to play the boogie. ZZ Top in 1982 doing La Grange. Same riff, different setting. And louder.
The next one is kind of obscure. Few if any of you will have heard of Catfish Hodge, unless you're from Detroit or you're like me and saw him in a club many years ago. I include it because the song title -- Boogieman Gonna Get Ya -- perfectly reflects what I hope is a frequent occurrence at Kings games this year. And, as a bonus, he talks about listening to John Lee Hooker records. The video for the song has disaappeared from YouTube, so this one contains the entire (1973) album. The song starts at 28:00, and be forewarned that there's some talk of substance abuse.
Switching musical styles, the Jackson Five had a song with a great title -- Blame It on the Boogie (1979).
Here's another one with a great title from Earth, Wind & Fire -- Boogie Wonderland.
Just ran into the limit on five items of media in a post, so more to come.
