The song “Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar” sung in the 1940s, by the Andrew Sisters, is about a piano player that has the gift of when playing piano people want to get up and dance. The song’s form, when the Andrew Sisters sing, is a particular form of AA’AA’BB’, but the form somewhat changes in each verse. This slight change is due to that the Andrew Sisters would sing as if to impersonate harmonizing trumpets, which tended to be improvised when played, and use that characteristic of the “Big Band” trumpet on the way each line was sung. The songs meaning is supported by the syncopated sound of the piano playing at the beginning of the song and during an instrumental break. The Andrew Sisters show the syncopation of the piano in the song during the part where they mimic the sound of the piano “a-plink, a-plank, a-plink plank, plink plank…a-riff, a-raff, a-riff raff, riff raff”.
The Andrew Sisters sing the song in an upbeat tune, resembling swing/”boogie woogie” style peaking in popularity at the time. This makes the song to appear to not support the argument in Lawrence Levine’s article “American Culture in the Great Depression”. The article was about how the economy was extremely down and people were looking for a sense of purpose and looked to music as that, but the song “Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar”, being pre WWII, has an upbeat tune that relates to the fact that the times then were looking better and the economy was up again.

I have to comment on my own because i missed writing a key part in it. When I said pre WWII, I meant pre US involvment. Please accept this correction for my disscussion. Thank you.