Green’s Dictionary of Slang

ricky-tick adj.

[jazz use ricky-tick, old fashioned jazz]

(orig. US) old-fashioned, predictable, monotonous.

British Empire Modern Eng. Illus. Dict. 1257/1: Ricky-tick (Am.): Old-fashioned jazz.
[US]Detroit Free Press (MI) 17 Sept. 8/1: ‘We don’t care about these ricky-tick bands like [Guy] Lombardo’.
[US]J.A. Williams Night Song (1962) 187: You goddamn right you ain’t one of my boys, you with your ricky-tick-ass guitar playin’.
[US]A. Young Snakes (1971) 33: I aint talkin bout all this old rickytick that ofays play and rebop and bebop and shit.