Re. [Dixielandjazz] The Bridge

[Mike Durham]

Start a list? What a thought, Steve!

Just for starters: two from the Fats Waller recordings: "Boo Hoo" (44 bars) 
and "Sweetie Pie" (38), King Oliver's "Tears"  at 40, and then there's "I'll 
Take You Home Again Kathleen" at 48 and "When I Leave This World Behind" at 
36. And that's just the choruses!

Mike D.

>From: Stephen Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: barbonestreet at earthlink.net
>To: Bill Gunter <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
>CC: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: Re: Re. [Dixielandjazz] The Bridge
>Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:46:23 -0500
>
>
>
>Bill Gunter wrote: (polite snip)
>
> > Ps . . . the "bridge" is simply the third eight.
>
>While that might be the case in many popular songs adapted to jazz,
>there are
>also many songs that either don't have a third eight, or a when they do, 
>the
>third eight is not really a bridge. Besides "Indiana" there are "Chimes 
>Blues",
>(in fact just about all blues) "Copenhagen", "Panama", "After You've Gone",
>"Darktown Strutter's Ball", "Up A Lazy River", "Flee As A Bird", "Didn't He
>Ramble", "Muskrat Ramble", "Ja Da", "Struttin With Some BBQ", "South", 
>"Love
>Songs Of The Nile",  etc.  (and "Somebody Stole My Gal" with it's 40 
>measure
>chorus)
>
>For the song's third eight to be a proper bridge, the song construction
>probably has to be "aaba" with each section being 8 measures. There must be
>at least 500 songs that do not fit this pattern. Anybody care to start a 
>list?
>
>Cheers,
>Steve Barbone
>
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