Okay, its been a long time since I last posted. With some work stuff taking over my time and some parties that have since passed, I now have a more time, so let’s get back to the audio!

Here we have a hit song featuring a duo that only plays drum and bass. No, its not Dillinja or Goldie because these are actual instruments. Also, its not Local H or The White Stripes because the time period is the late 1930’s.

Now, I’m not sure which Winnteka they’re talking about… either the droll suburb of LA or the suburb of Chicago where Laurie Dann did that killing spree that motivated their cops to regulate Uzi machine guns for their officers after that tragedy. Maybe that explains the “big sound.”

I bring you Bob Haggart & Ray Bauduc!

Bob Haggart & Ray Bauduc were part of the rhythm section for a band called The Bob Crosby Orchestra who did some swing stuff from the late-thirties into the fifties. He was especially known for a Dixieland Jazz group called The Bobcats which featured these two backup men, one on bass and the other on Drums.

Bauduc is very well known for his drumming style, and this song was even a radio hit. His colourful style, making full use of woodblocks, cowbells, the Chinese cymbal and tom-toms, marked him out from most drummers of the swing era, and made him one of the few white drummers (George Wettling, Dave Tough and Gene Krupa were the others, but they were not so obvious) to be directly influenced by Warren “Baby” Dodds.