You Rascal, You (The Mills Brothers)

The Mills Brothers · 1931 · Chanson de Sam Theard, version vocale swinguée

Context

Cut for Brunswick on November 19, 1931. The quartet offers it in a vocal version and an imitated instrumental version, alongside Louis Armstrong's contemporary version.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Tiger Rag (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• Nobody's Sweetheart (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• Baby, Won't You Please Come Home (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• Rockin' Chair (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• Good-bye Blues (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• St. Louis Blues (The Mills Brothers) (1932)

Sources

• adp.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Mills Brothers discography

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