Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)
Context
Written by Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart and Bud Green and recorded on February 17, 1938, for Vocalion (4021), the duo's first and biggest hit reached #2 on the US sales charts; Vocalion had "floozie" replaced by "floogie." Covered the same year by Louis Armstrong with the Mills Brothers and by Django Reinhardt, it is one of the three pieces of music placed in the 1938 Westinghouse time capsule.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Swing, big bands, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Swing, big bands: Chicago, Stride (Harlem piano), Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Kansas City, Boogie-woogie, Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras.