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Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five

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Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 - February 4, 1975) was 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. Jordan was one of the most successful African-American musicians of the 20th century, ranking fifth in the list of the all-time most successful black recording artists according to Billboard magazine's chart methodology. Though comprehensive sales figures are not available, he scored at least four million-selling hits during his career. Jordan regularly topped the R&B "race" charts, and was one of the first black recording artists to achieve a significant "crossover" in popularity into the mainstream (predominantly white) American...

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Discography

  • The Chronological Classics: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 1943-1945, 1996
  • The Chronological Classics: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 1945-1946, 1997
  • Beware / Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin', 1946
  • The Chronological Classics: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 1940-1941
  • Saturday Night Fish Fry, 2000
  • Caldonia / Someone Done Changed The Lock On My Door, 1945
  • The Chronological Classics: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 1950-1951
  • The Chronological Classics: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 1941-1943
  • G.I. Jive / Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby), 1944
  • Ain't That Just Like A Woman (They'll Do It Every Time) / If It's Love You Want Baby, That's Me, 1946
  • I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town / Knock Me a Kiss, 1941
  • Choo Choo Ch'Boogie / That's Chick's Too Young to Fry, 1946
  • Friendship / You're Much Too Fat (And That's That), 1952
  • Choo Choo Ch'Boogie, 1999
  • Five Guys Named Moe, 1991
  • Let the Good Times Roll / Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens, 1946
  • Ration Blues / Deacon Jones, 1943
  • The Chronological Classics: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 1934-1940
  • Open the Door, Richard! / It's So Easy, 1947
  • One Guy Named Louis
  • Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five, 2001
  • What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again) / The Chicks I Pick Are Slender and Tender and Tall, 1942
  • The Entertainers - With Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, 1995
  • Let the Good Times Roll, 1965
  • The Chronological Classics: Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 1946-1947

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