Will Bradley

Will Bradley ( born July 12, 1912 in Newton, New Jersey, † July 15, 1989 in Flemington, New Jersey; actually Wilbur Schwichtenburg ) was an American big band leader and trombonist of swing, dance and music of the " Big Band - Boogie Woogie ".

Will Bradley began as a studio musician (including with Red Nichols ), played 1935/6 in Ray Noble's American band ( brokered by Glenn Miller) and founded in 1939 with the drummer ( and singer ) Ray McKinley, he and at " Milt Shaw his Detroiters " in 1931 met her, a big band by boogie woogie hits like" Beat me Daddy, Eight to the Bar " ( with McKinley as a singer ), " down the Road a Piece " (1940 ), " Bounce me brother with a solid four " and" Scrub me Mamma with a Boogie Beat " became known. Many of his hits came from Don Raye, who ( with Doc Goldberg and Freddie Slack ) also occurred with the Will Bradley Trio as a singer.

His first hit the charts in May 1940, the Walter Donaldson - number "( What can I Say ) After I Say I'm Sorry " (# 26 ), followed by another eight hits. Thu Rayes " Beat me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar" succeeded him to advance to Rank 2 in the charts. Your success numbers often had strange titles, such as " Etude Brutus " or " celery below at midnight " ( Celery Staks at Midnight, 1940).

The Bradley - band existed until 1942 and played in the 1940 " Famous Door " at the 52nd Street in New York. In it, among other things played Peanuts Hucko (tenor saxophone) and Freddie Slack (Piano), who also arranged for the band, but a band founded in 1941. During the Second World War he was a band in the Glenn Miller Air Force, but also took with his own band, so with Billy Butterfield, Johnny Guarnieri and Bob Haggart his last chart hit " Cryin 'the Boogie Blues " (# 23) and, inter alia, Anita O'Day with (1947). Bradley was then a studio musician who played many years in the "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.

His son is the jazz drummer Bill Bradley ( born 1938 ).