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| LOUIS JORDAN |
A pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #59 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time…
"What's the Use of Getting Sober" is a 1942 novelty song by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. The song was Louis Jordan's second release and the first of eighteen number ones on the R&B chart…
Louis Jordan in 1944…
Jordan had a lot of hits in the 1940s, another one being “Buzz Me” in 1946…
Open the Door, Richard in 1947…
Beans and Corn Bread is a 1949 jump blues song by Louis Jordan and Tympany Five, released by Decca…
In 1951, Jordan put together a short-lived big band that included musicians such as Pee Wee Moore and others, at a time when big bands were on their way out; this is considered the beginning of his commercial decline, even though he reverted to the Tympany Five format within a year. By the mid 1950s, Jordan's records were not selling as well as they used to and he ended up leaving Decca Records…BUT put out great tunes like…
And great tunes like this one…
Blues Guitarist B.B. King recorded an album called Let The Good Times Roll-The Music of Louis Jordan, as well as the songs "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Caldonia" Check out the original CALADONIA…
This cat was born WAY before his time…
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