Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a 1941 song by Don Raye and Hughie Prince, made famous by the Andrews Sisters. This page has the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"

Don Raye and Hughie Prince wrote it for the Abbott and Costello film Buck Privates (1941), where the Andrews Sisters sang it. It tells of a Chicago trumpet player drafted into the army who can only play reveille in boogie-woogie. The song was nominated for an Academy Award.

Recordings that made it a standard

• The Andrews Sisters (Decca, 1941) — the original, sung in the film.
• Bette Midler — The Divine Miss M (1973), a hit revival three decades later.