The Bugle Call Rag

"Bugle Call Rag" is a 1922 jazz tune by Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel, built around a military bugle call. This page has the The Bugle Call Rag chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "The Bugle Call Rag"

Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel wrote it in Chicago, where they played in the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. It is an instrumental; the bugle call that opens it gives it its name.

Recordings that made it a standard

• New Orleans Rhythm Kings (1922) — the first recording, by the band its writers played in.
• Benny Goodman and His Orchestra (1936) — the swing version that kept it in the big-band book.