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Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5

Title: Route 66

Label: Hoodoo Records

Cat No:263403
Format:CD

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• This essential collector’s edition assembles 29 tracks from 1956 to 1957 by the effervescent jump jive, R&B vocalist-sax player who had helped lay the roots of Rock & Roll. Some consider 1950’s “Saturday Night Fish Fry” by the Louis Jordan the first rock record, and Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, James Brown, Bill Haley, and Bo Diddley have all cited the sensational bandleader as their main influence.

• Jordan had been musically active since the early 1930s - joining Chick Webb’s band in 1936 - and under his own name having jump jive / R&B hits all through the forties and fifties. Lively, infectious music with jazzy horns, bluesy beats, sassy lyrics. In the mid-50s Jordan moved from Decca to the new Mercury label, who marketed him as “The Original Rock & Roller”.

• “Louis Jordan had been playing ‘rock & roll’ for as long as I can remember – way before Elvis.” – Dizzy Gillespie

• Personnel : Louis Jordan, vocals and alto sax, plus: His New Tympany Five: Ernie Royal (trumpet), Ernie Hayes (piano), Mickey Baker (guitar), Wendell Marshall (bass), and Charlie Persip (drums). Also featuring: Sam “The Man” Taylor (tenor sax), Budd Johnson (tenor and baritone sax), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), among others. Recorded in New York City, between 1956 and 1957. Original recordings produced and arranged by Quincy Jones.

• Total Time: 78:32 mins. - 29 tracks - also includes: 16-page booklet, rare photos, vintage visual memorabilia & detailed liner notes.

Track Listing for Route 66
01. Choo Choo Ch’boogie 2:17
02. Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens 2:35
03. Caldonia 2:23
04. Knock Me A Kiss 2:54
05. Let The Good Times Roll 2:43
06. Beware, Brother, Beware 2:43
07. Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby? 3:17
08. Big Bess 2:29
09. Cat Scratchin’ 2:49
10. Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying 3:15
11. I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town 3:23
12. Salt Pork, West Virginia 2:48
13. Run Joe 3:14
14. Early In The Morning 3:19
15. Rock Doc! 2:22
16. Fire 2:31
17. Ella Mae 2:28
18. The Jamf 2:32
19. Route 66 2:55
20. Saturday Night Fish Fry 2:37
21. Sweet Lorraine 2:32
22. Got My Mo-Jo Workin’ 2:49
23. Sunday 2:22
24. A Man Ain’t A Man 2:34
25. The Nearness Of You 2:57
26. I’ve Found My Peace Of Mind 2:18
27. I Hadn’t Anyone Till You 2:33
28. The Slop 2:31
29. Chicken Back 2:23

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Route 66