Boogie Woogie

"Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" is a 1928 piano piece by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, the first record to call the style boogie-woogie. This page has the Boogie Woogie chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Boogie Woogie"

Pinetop Smith recorded it for Vocalion in December 1928, a few months before his death, calling out the dance moves over the rolling left hand. Tommy Dorsey's big band arrangement of 1938 made it a swing hit.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Pinetop Smith (Vocalion, 1928).
• Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (Victor, 1938).