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Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jordan Louis & His Tympani Five
Label: Jsp Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $28.98
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 76671
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5 x 2.1
UPC: 788065900526
EAN: 0788065900526
ASIN: B00005KFUG
Release Date: July 10, 2001
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Disc 1
| • | Honey in the Bee Ball - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Barnacle Bill the Sailor - Louis Jordan, Luther, Frank | | • | Flat Face - Louis Jordan, Williams, Courtney | | • | Keep a Knockin' - Louis Jordan, Bradford, Perry | | • | Sam Jones Done Snagged His Britches - Louis Jordan, Bradford, Perry | | • | Swingin' in a Coconut Tree - Louis Jordan, Williams, J. Mayo | | • | Doug the Jitterbug - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | At the Swing Cat's Ball - Louis Jordan, Campbell | | • | Jake, What a Snake - Louis Jordan, Williams, J. Mayo | | • | Honeysuckle Rose - Louis Jordan, Razaf, Andy | | • | 'Fore Day Blues - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | But I'll Be Back - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | You Ain't Nowhere - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | You're My Meat - Louis Jordan, Tolbert, Skeets | | • | June Tenth Jamboree - Louis Jordan, Price | | • | You Run Your Mouth and I'll Run My Business - Louis Jordan, Armstrong, Lil | | • | I'm Alabama Bound - Louis Jordan, Jackson, Mike | | • | Somebody Done Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man - Louis Jordan, Wilson, Wesley | | • | Bounce the Ball (Do da Dittle Um Day) - Louis Jordan, Jackson, Mike | | • | Penthouse in the Basement - Louis Jordan, Bishop, Walter | | • | After School Swing Session (Swinging With Symphony, Sid) - Louis Jordan, Feyne, Buddy | | • | Oh Boy, I'm in the Groove - Louis Jordan, Fitzgerald, Ella | | • | Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand's Doin' - Louis Jordan, Delaney, Ted | | • | Don't Come Cryin' on My Shoulder - Louis Jordan, Altman, Arthur | | • | Waiting for the Robert E. Lee - Louis Jordan, Gilbert, L. Wolfe | | • | A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird - Louis Jordan, Wallace, Emmet "Bab | | • | Pompton Turnpike - Louis Jordan, Osborne, Will | | • | Do You Call That a Buddy? (Dirty Cat) - Louis Jordan, Wilson, Wesley | | • | I Know You (I Know What You Wanna Do) - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] |
Disc 2
| • | Pinetop's Boogie Woogie - Louis Jordan, Smith, Pinetop | | • | The Two Little Squirrels (Nuts to You) - Louis Jordan, David, Mack | | • | T-Bone Blues - Louis Jordan, Hite, Les | | • | Pan-Pan - Louis Jordan, Daniels, Jerry | | • | Saint Vitus Dance - Louis Jordan, Jackson, Mike | | • | Saxa-Woogie - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Brotherly Love (Wrong Ideas) - Louis Jordan, Feathers | | • | Boogie Woogie Came to Town - Louis Jordan, Bishop, Walter | | • | How 'Bout That? - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Mama, Mama Blues (Rusty Dusty Blues) - Louis Jordan, Williams, J. Mayo | | • | Knock Me a Kiss - Louis Jordan, Jackson, Mike | | • | The Green Grass Grows All Around - Louis Jordan, Johnston, Arthur | | • | Small Town Boy - Louis Jordan, Bartley, Dallas | | • | I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town - Louis Jordan, Razaf, Andy | | • | What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)? - Louis Jordan, Meyers, Bill | | • | The Chicks I Pick Are Slender, Tender and Tall - Louis Jordan, Jackson, Mike | | • | I'm Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | That'll Just About Knock Me Out - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Five Guys Named Moe - Louis Jordan, Bresler, Jerome | | • | It's a Low Down Dirty Shame - Louis Jordan, Shepard, Ollie | | • | Ration Blues - Louis Jordan, Clark, Collenane | | • | Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? - Louis Jordan, Austin, Bill | | • | Deacon Jones - Louis Jordan, Heath, Hy | | • | I Like 'Em Fat Like That - Louis Jordan, Demetrius, Claude | | • | Mop! Mop! - Louis Jordan, Demetrius, Claude | | • | G.I. Jive - Louis Jordan, Mercer, Johnny | | • | You Can't Get That No More - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] |
Disc 3
| • | My Baby Said Yes (Yip, Yip de Hootie) - Louis Jordan, Robin, Leo | | • | Your Socks Don't Match - Louis Jordan, Carr, Leon | | • | Buzz Me - Louis Jordan, Baxter, Danny | | • | Caldonia Boogie - Louis Jordan, Moore, Fleecie | | • | Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door - Louis Jordan, Weldon, Casey Bill | | • | How Long Must I Wait for You? - Louis Jordan, Black, Jerry | | • | Salt Pork, West Virginia - Louis Jordan, Moore, Fleecie | | • | Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule - Louis Jordan, Davis, Jimmy [3] | | • | Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming) - Louis Jordan, Houdini, Wilmoth | | • | Petootie Pie - Louis Jordan, Paparelli | | • | Recoversion Blues - Louis Jordan, Graham | | • | It's So Easy - Louis Jordan, Fisher, Doris | | • | Beware, Brother, Beware - Louis Jordan, Adams, Dick | | • | Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying - Louis Jordan, Greene, Joe | | • | Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan, Horton, Vaughn | | • | Ain't That Just Like a Woman - Louis Jordan, Demetrius, Claude | | • | That Chick's Too Young to Fry - Louis Jordan, Edwards, Tommy | | • | No Sale - Louis Jordan, Higginbotham, Irene | | • | If It's Love You Want Baby, That's Me - Louis Jordan, Robin | | • | Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan, Kramer, Alex | | • | Let the Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan, Moore, Fleecie | | • | All for the Love of Lil - Louis Jordan, Bresler, Jerry | | • | Texas and Pacific - Louis Jordan, Fine, Jack Wolf | | • | Jack, You're Dead! - Louis Jordan, Bishop, Walter | | • | Reet Petite and Gone - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Sure Had a Wonderful Time - Louis Jordan, Demetrius, Claude | | • | I Know What You're Putting Down - Louis Jordan, Allen, Steve |
Disc 4
| • | Friendship - Louis Jordan, Demetrius, Claude | | • | Open the Door, Richard - Louis Jordan, Fletcher, Dusty | | • | Boogie Woogie Blue Plate - Louis Jordan, Bushkin, Joe | | • | Barnyard Boogie - Louis Jordan, Grey, Wayne | | • | Every Man to His Own Profession - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Early in the Morning - Louis Jordan, Bartley, Dallas | | • | Run Joe - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Look Out - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Have You Got the Gumption? - Louis Jordan, Austin, Bill | | • | We Can't Agree - Louis Jordan, Gray, Wardell | | • | Chicky-Mo, Craney-Crow - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Roamin' Blues - Louis Jordan, Dane | | • | Inflation Blues - Louis Jordan, Alexander, Allegret | | • | You're Much Too Fat (And That's That) - Louis Jordan, Dane | | • | Pettin' and Pokin' - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | You're on the Right Track, Baby - Louis Jordan, Carter, Bob | | • | Don't Burn the Candle at Both Ends - Louis Jordan, Carter, Bob | | • | Why'd You Do It Baby? - Louis Jordan, Lorre | | • | Daddy-O - Louis Jordan, Raye, Don | | • | Safe, Sane and Single - Louis Jordan, Heath, Hy | | • | I Know What I've Got, Don't Know What I'm Getting - Louis Jordan, Robin, Sydney | | • | You Broke Your Promise - Louis Jordan, Pola | | • | Push-Ka Pee-Shee Pie (The Saga of Saga Boy) - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Cole Slaw - Louis Jordan, Stone, Jesse | | • | Beans and Corn Bread - Louis Jordan, Clark, Fred |
Disc 5
| • | Onion - Louis Jordan, Doggett, Bill | | • | Baby's Gonna Go, Bye-Bye - Louis Jordan, Alexander, Edna | | • | Heed My Warning - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Psycho-Loco - Louis Jordan, Doggett, Bill | | • | Baby, It's Cold Outside - Louis Jordan, Loesser, Frank | | • | Don't Cry, Cry, Baby - Louis Jordan, Maher, Clarence | | • | School Days (When We Were Kids) - Louis Jordan, Cobb, Will D. | | • | Hungry Man - Louis Jordan, Troup, Bobby | | • | Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | I Want a Roof Over My Head - Louis Jordan, Brooks. Harvey | | • | Show Me How (You Milk the Cow) - Louis Jordan, Paone | | • | Blue Light Boogie - Louis Jordan, Robinson, Jessie Ma | | • | Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own - Louis Jordan, Taylor, Irving | | • | I'll Never Be Free - Louis Jordan, Benjamin, Bennie | | • | Tamburitza Boogie - Louis Jordan, Crienica | | • | (You Dyed Your Hair) Chartreuse - Louis Jordan, McFarland, J. Lesli | | • | Lemonade - Louis Jordan, Gray, Wardell | | • | It's a Great, Great Pleasure - Louis Jordan, Tennyson, Bill | | • | You Will Always Have a Friend - Louis Jordan, Jordan, Louis [1] | | • | Trouble Then Satisfaction - Louis Jordan, Horton, Vaughn | | • | Life Is So Peculiar - Louis Jordan, Burke, Johnny | | • | You Rascal You - Louis Jordan, Theard, Sam | | • | Teardrops from My Eyes - Louis Jordan, Toombs, Rudy |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Think five discs and 131 songs 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 (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 topnotch 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 underestimated. But all ideas about "historical importance" fade away as these vibrant, insistent, irresistible tracks roll by. --Marc Greilsamer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
The foundation set of R&B January 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Simply put, for its value this is one of the greatest collections of CD's of utter joy and happiness around.
This multivolume set covers the early music and musical peak of the musical and comical link between Bert Williams and Louis Armstrong (LJ's dad was a friend of Bert's and used his records to inspire his son, and Satch was a mentor and occasional collaborator with LJ) and the first generation of R&B rockers (Ray Chalres, the Godfather, B.B. King, and Little Richard have all sang their praises to LJ).
Some of his really rare early music is found on the early discs. It took him a while to find his style of humorous stories told to a beat and inspired sax playing, but there are still some diamonds in the rough here. "Swinging in the Coconut Trees" is an amusing and atmospheric instrumental, "Keep a Knockin" was later covered by Little Richard, "Do You Call That a Buddy" is a good comical blues with some nice background singing by the T-5, "June Teenth Jamboree" is probably the first record to deal with this early black holiday (LJ was astudent of Black folklore, and incorporated it into his music), and "What's the Use of Gettin' Sober" is the kind of wild, authentic black humor that would put Amos & Andy's "PseudoNegro" antics to shame.
Later on, we get into the familiar bits of inspired nuttiness and great musicianship. "Caldonia," "Sat Nite Fish Fry," "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," "Beware" (and its sequel "Look Out Sister" which has some hilarious early rapping), and what is to me the funniest R&B record of all time, the knee-slapping floor-pounding classic BEANS & CORNBREAD.
We also get some of the calypso tunes with Jordan's expertly delivered "Jafakean" accent such as "Run Joe," "Early in the morning," "Stone Cold dead in the Market," and "Push Ka peesh Kee Pie." The West Indians were flattered by these tunes and LJ made succesful tours of the West Indies.
However, the set ends at about 1950, just before our man's career peaked. But his later material is available elsewhere on Amazon. In either case, whenver you come home from a hard day at work, put this set on your CD player. It'll put your psychologist out of work!
Great Listening August 14, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wandered into this CD while checking out the many great boxed sets that JSP Records has to offer. I knew very little about Louis Jordan before hearing this, and now I'm hooked! For anybody whole loves to hear the building blocks of modern music, this is for you. If you like to hear things like Bob Wills, Milton Brown, Louis Armstrong, This is for you.
 Lloyd Brown St Louis, MO April 17, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Wolf Shadow, great review. Louis Jordan was my uncle and I have almost all of these great cuts on original 33 1/3s and even 45s and 78s. I will buy this CD to preserve my Louis collection which I hardly ever played in the past 40 years.
I give it four stars instead of five because his grearest blues hit "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" is not included in over 130 cuts.
There are others I would have liked to have seen included like 'School Days', which we loved as kids years ago. Plus more of his blues solos. Lots of people did not consider my uncle a "serious" musician, which he surely was.
All in all, a great box set well worth the price.
A Whole Lotta Music For Not Much Dough March 7, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don't think twice-- buy it! Great collection goes on and on, and never runs out of steam. Louis Jordan was at his peak when these were recorded. I repeat: buy!
Five Guys Named Moe - bad transfer! March 21, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The sound quality on this set is great with one exception: "Five Guys Named Moe" sounds horrible! It sounds like it was dubbed from an out-of-round record! What's most puzzling is that this is the only track that sounds bad, and that this was one of Louis Jordan's biggest hits, with many superior transfers available. JSP usually does a stellar job with sound - what happened here?! Luckily, I still have my LP version. Otherwise I'd give this set 5 stars.
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