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"Guitar Boogie" is a guitar instrumental recorded by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith in 1945. It was one of the first recordings in the style later dubbed "hillbilly boogie" to reach a widespread audience, and eventually sold nearly three million copies.〔 〕 It was the first guitar instrumental to climb the Country music charts, and then crossover and also gain high rankings on Pop charts.〔 "Guitar Boogie" has been interpreted and recorded by a variety of musicians. It is among the songs discussed as the first rock and roll record.〔 ==Original song== "Guitar Boogie" is an uptempo twelve-bar boogie-style instrumental and is patterned after older boogie-woogie piano pieces.〔In 1929 Blind Roosevelt Graves recorded a "Guitar Boogie" (Paramount 12820-A), which was patterned after Pine Top Smith's 1928 "Pine Top's Boogie" (Vocalion 1245).〕 Smith performs the piano parts on guitar, alternating between boogie rhythmic patterns and soloing. Originally a jazz musician, Smith explained, "I guess I picked that () from Tommy Dorsey's 'Boogie Woogie', 'cause I didn't listen to country or blues, I listened to big band in those days".〔 〕 Smith first recorded "Guitar Boogie" in 1945 with the Tennessee Ramblers, with Don Reno on rhythm guitar and Roy Lear on bass. There has been conflicting information on the type of guitar Smith used for the recording; several sources identify it as an acoustic guitar〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 and others as an electric guitar.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 The piece was released under the name "The Rambler Trio featuring Arthur Smith" by the independent Super Disc Records label. Regionally "Guitar Boogie" did well, due in part to Smith's appearances on popular radio programs, such as Charlotte, North Carolina WBT's ''"Carolina Hayride".'' In October 1948, MGM Records (which had purchased Super Disc and Smith's contract) re-released the instrumental under the name "Arthur (Guitar Boogie) Smith and His Cracker-Jacks".〔Although Craig Smith has written that "Guitar Boogie" was re-recorded for MGM, most sources, including Birnbaum, Dawson and Propes, McNeil, and ''Billboard'', indicate that the 1945 recording was re-released by MGM in 1948.〕 By 1949, "Guitar Boogie" reached number 8 during a stay of seven weeks in the Country chart and number 25 in the Pop chart,〔 〕 making it "the first guitar instrumental to climb the Country charts () crossover, and climb the Pop Charts".〔 〕 As an early popular example of hillbilly boogie, it is a link between 1940s Western swing and honky-tonk and 1950s rockabilly.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guitar Boogie (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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