Louis Jordan and His Tympany Band - Swing Era: Films and Soundies (2003)

One of the chief progenitors of the R and B idiom and a pioneer of the small combo 'jump' blues style so popular during the Forties, vocalist and altoman Louis Jordan (1908-1975) is justly remembered as a performer who defined an era. An effervescent saxophonist and an enthusiastic singer with a very personal jive-loaded sense of humor, the irrepressible Jordan enjoyed a sensational string of hits while fronting his rock-solid Tympany Five band from the war years onwards to the early Fifties. The scale of his massive popularity during this period was truly astonishing. Besides decisively influencing Ray Charles and countless other R and B artists, from 1942 to 1951 he scored no less than 57 R and B chart hits on the Decca record label, including such timeless gems as 'Five Guys Named Moe', 'Caldonia', 'Choo Choo Ch' Boogie', 'Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens', and 'Saturday Night Fish Fry'. Gathering material from Jordan's feature films 'Beware' (1946), 'Reet, Petite and Gone' (1947), and 'Look Out Sister' (1948), plus a selection of different 'soundies' mainly shot for the black cinemas of America, this video offers a fascinating portrait of this true visionary of music, whose songs sound as irresistible today as they did over five decades ago. The legend lives on! ~Amazon

Tracks:
From "Beware", produced and directed by Bud Pollard (1948)
01. You Gotta Have The Beat
02. How Long Must I Wait For You
03. Hold On
04. Long Legg's Lizzie
05. Good Morning Heartache
06. In The Land Of The Buffalo Nickel
07. Got An Old Fashioned Passion For You
08. Don't You Worry About That Mule
09. Salt Pork, West Virginia
10. Beware
From "Reet, Petite and Gone", produced and directed by William Forrest Crouch (1947)
11. Let The Good Times Roll
12. Texas And Pacific
13. Reet, Petite And Gone
14. Wham, Sam
15. All For The Love Of Lil
16. The Green Grass Grows All Around
17. I Know What You're Putting Down
18. That Chick's Too Young To Fury
19. Ain't That Just Like A Woman
20. If It's Love That You Want That's Me
From "Look Out Sister", directed by Bud Pollard (1948)
21. Jack, You're Dead
22. Turkey In The Straw
23. (I Got Those) Roamin' Blues
24. Early In The Morning
25. Look Out Sister
Soundies
26. Caldonia
27. Five Guys Named Moe
28. Honey Chile
29. G.I. Jive
30. If You Can't Smile And Say Yes
31. Fuzzy Wuzzy
32. Tillie
33. Buzz Me
34. Down, Down, Down
35. Jumpin' At The Jubilee

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