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 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five

Name:  Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Artist: Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5
Styles: Blues - Jump Blues - Jazz - Swing - R&B and Soul - Classic R&B & Soul - R&B
Media: Audio CD
Features: Box set
Release Date: 28 May 2001
Label: Jsp
  
UPC Catalogue No: 788065900526
Amazon Sales Ranking: 12273
Number of Discs: 5

Description
 
Think the five discs and 131 songs of Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5 is too much Louis Jordan? Not a chance. Not for a man who so consistently and so definitively achieved the elusive and delicate combination of musicianship and accessibility. Not for a man who paved new and vital musical roads without ever losing his sense of style or his appetite for fun. Covering Jordan's historic (not to mention commercially successful) Decca tenure from 1938 to 1950, this amazing collection finds the alto-sax player, songwriter, and singer building blues and swing into a hot mix that came to be known as R&B, producing hit after hit with top-notch bands behind him, streamlining the big-band concept without diminishing the music's force. Much has been made of his role in the development of R&B--and as a result, rock & roll--and his importance as a musical pioneer can't be under estimated. But all ideas about "historical importance" fade away as these vibrant, insistent, irresistible tracks roll by. --Marc Greilsamer		  

Tracks
 1  Honey in the Bee Ball
 2  Barnacle Bill the Sailor
 3  Flat Face
 4  Keep A-Knockin' (But You Can't Come In)
 5  Sam Jones Done Snagged His Britches
 6  Swingin' in a Coconut Tree
 7  Doug the Jitterbug
 8  At the Swing Cat's Ball
 9  Jake, What a Snake
 10  Honeysuckle Rose
 11  'Fore Day Blues
 12  But I'll Be Back
 13  You Ain't Nowhere
 14  You're My Meat
 15  June Tenth Jamboree
 16  You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business
 17  I'm Alabama Bound
 18  Somebody Done Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man
 19  Bounce the Ball (Do da Dittle Um Day)
 20  Penthouse in the Basement
 21  After School Swing Session (Swinging With Symphony, Sid)
 22  Oh Boy, I'm in the Groove
 23  Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand's Doin'
 24  Don't Come Cryin' on My Shoulder
 25  Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
 26  Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird
 27  Pompton Turnpike
 28  Do You Call That a Buddy? (Dirty Cat)
 29  I Know You (I Know What You Wanna Do)
 1  Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
 2  Two Little Squirrels (Nuts to You)
 3  T-Bone Blues
 4  Pan Pan
 5  Saint Vitus Dance
 6  Saxa-Woogie
 7  Brotherly Love (Wrong Ideas)
 8  Boogie Woogie Came to Town
 9  How 'Bout That?
 10  Mama, Mama Blues (Rusty Dusty Blues)
 11  Knock Me a Kiss
 12  Green Grass Grows All Around
 13  Small Town Boy
 14  I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
 15  What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)?
 16  Chicks I Pick Are Slender, Tender and Tall
 17  I'm Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town
 18  That'll Just About Knock Me Out
 19  Five Guys Named Moe
 20  It's a Low Down Dirty Shame
 21  Ration Blues
 22  Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
 23  Deacon Jones
 24  I Like 'Em Fat Like That
 25  Mop! Mop!
 26  G.I. Jive
 27  You Can't Get That No More
 1  My Baby Said Yes (Yip, Yip de Hootie)
 2  Your Socks Don't Match
 3  Buzz Me
 4  Caldonia Boogie
 5  Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door
 6  How Long Must I Wait for You?
 7  Salt Pork, West Virginia
 8  Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule
 9  Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming) -
 10  Petootie Pie
 11  Recoversion Blues
 12  It's So Easy
 13  Beware, Brother, Beware
 14  Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
 15  Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
 16  Ain't That Just Like a Woman
 17  That Chick's Too Young to Fry
 18  No Sale
 19  If It's Love You Want Baby, That's Me
 20  Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
 21  Let the Good Times Roll
 22  All for the Love of Lil
 23  Texas and Pacific
 24  Jack, You're Dead!
 25  Reet Petite and Gone
 26  Sure Had a Wonderful Time
 27  I Know What You're Putting Down
 1  Friendship
 2  Open the Door, Richard
 3  Boogie Woogie Blue Plate
 4  Barnyard Boogie
 5  Every Man to His Own Profession
 6  Early in the Morning
 7  Run Joe
 8  Look Out
 9  Have You Got the Gumption?
 10  We Can't Agree
 11  Chicky-Mo, Craney-Crow
 12  Roamin' Blues
 13  Inflation Blues
 14  You're Much Too Fat (And That's That)
 15  Pettin' and Pokin'
 16  You're on the Right Track, Baby
 17  Don't Burn the Candle at Both Ends
 18  Why'd You Do It Baby?
 19  Daddy-O
 20  Safe, Sane and Single
 21  I Know What I've Got, Don't Know What I'm Getting
 22  You Broke Your Promise
 23  Push-Ka Pee-Shee Pie (The Saga of Saga Boy)
 24  Cole Slaw
 25  Beans and Corn Bread
 1  Onion
 2  Baby's Gonna Go, Bye-Bye
 3  Heed My Warning
 4  Psycho-Loco
 5  Baby, It's Cold Outside
 6  Don't Cry, Cry, Baby
 7  School Days (When We Were Kids)
 8  Hungry Man
 9  Saturday Night Fish Fry
 10  I Want a Roof Over My Head
 11  Show Me How (You Milk the Cow)
 12  Blue Light Boogie
 13  Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own
 14  I'll Never Be Free
 15  Tamburitza Boogie
 16  (You Dyed Your Hair) Chartreuse
 17  Lemonade
 18  It's a Great, Great Pleasure
 19  You Will Always Have a Friend
 20  Trouble Then Satisfaction
 21  Life Is So Peculiar
 22  You Rascal You
 23  Teardrops from My Eyes

Customer Reviews
 
Almost everything you wanted to hear Rating: 5.0

I was first intoduced to Louis Jordan by the excellent musical Five Guys Named Moe and have been a huge fan ever since. He is the godfather of R&B, artists such as Clanrence Gate Mouth Brown and B.B King have made tribute albums, while Little Richard and Chuck Berry name him as a major influence. You have probably heard his songs in tv ads (Knock Me A Kiss and Beans and Cornbread spring to mind) and Elwood Blues plays "Saturday Night Fishfry" in Blues Brothers and names him as an impoart influence in Blues Brothers 2000 (what more recomendation do you need)There are a lot of good albums of his out there, but this clearly the biggest and a pleasure it is to. There are many tracks I had never heard before, but it is missing "Hurry Home" a track that seemed almost impossible to hunt down. But this collection is fab, you get hear Louis sing with Louis Armstrong in a couple of numbers and Ella Fitzgerald in a couple others. All the track sound good, i have had a couple of CDs that sound like records, so this was a treat. At this price you can't go wrong. If you like what you hear you can seek out Louis exploits with Big Bands and how he later updated his songs pumping in more energy.
This is a good start but there is much more to discover

 
Wonderful music played with joy, absolutely brilliant. Rating: 5.0

After watching the TV series Walk on By I was intrigued by the short clip of Louis Jordan and found this magnificent 5 CD set. Have a listen to the music and songs and if you don't want to Jive, Jitterbug etc just sit back and enjoy the Band, especially that Saxaphone. JSP Records must be congratulated on this fabulous CD set and it is worth its weight in gold. Also, thanks Amazon UK for such prompt and efficient service, ordered and received in just over week here in Melbourne.

 
Excellent Rating: 5.0

I was looking for an introduction to the music of Louis Jordon and when I saw this boxed set... I went for this instead. It's an excellent collection - with all the well known songs plus some not so well known - if you're looking for a Louis Jordon CD buy this one - at this price you can't go wrong - excellent value and the sound quality and re-mastering is superb. Recommended

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