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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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This is jazz musician, Maurice Rocco, was born in Oxford, Ohio, Maurice Rockhold (1915-1976). He later became known as a jazz musician who played the piano while standing up. He performed briefly with Duke Ellington. His career included musical performances in several movies during the 30s and 40s and he later toured in Europe and Asia. He was murdered in Bangkok, Thailand while he was living there and performing at nightclubs.
Of course our favorite Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar came out on the
"Lost In The Ozone" album by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen…
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Clarence Smith came from deep in the heart of Alabama. After playing piano for a few years and developing his own style derived from the blues he had heard all around him, Clarence first performed publicly in Birmingham at around age fifteen. Soon after, he relocated north to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he launched his career as a performer, and a moniker of "Pinetop"
Based for a time in the Steel City, Smith joined the Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA) Vaudeville circuit--he was one of Maddy Dorsey's pickaninies.
PANTAGES IN PINETOP'S TIME
PANTAGES THEATER TODAY
Pinetop, though,focused more on piano as his stint with TOBA progressed, often taking in the local night spots on their tours where barrelhouse pianists played the deepest of blues and also at rent parties, local taverns, and the occasional brothel.
By the mid-1920s, he had a fairly well developed boogie style, and enhanced it with a moving bass ("eight to the bar"), and coined that as Boogie Woogie. Smith soon became a master of Boogie Woogie and his reputation spread. He moved his family to Chicago in late 1927 or early 1928.
Smith cut his first sides at the end of 1928...
While performing PineTop's Boogie Woogie the composer talked over the playing giving instructions on how to dance to the tune. When released, it was allegedly the first record with the name "boogie woogie" on the label, and it soon became a hit in Chicago and beyond.
He was soon playing in Chicago hot-spots and had a promising future.
On March 15, 1929 "PineTop" Smith was performing at a Chicago dance hall when a fight broke out and gunplay followed. Smith was hit by a bullet from the gun of David Bell.
The headline in Downbeat magazine read "I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood and Fall."
The world was deprived of a promising string of original performances and compositions by this stellar player who left behind his wife, two children, a handful of records, and a cadre of mourners...
R.I.P. Pinetop Smith ~ The Cat Who Invented Boogie Woogie!!!
