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Louis Jordan - Complete 1950-1952 Decca Recordings (Definitive DRCD-11226)

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. I Want A Roof Over My Head 2:41
  2. Show Me How (You Milk The Cow) 2:53
  3. Blue Light Boogie (Parts 1 & 2) 5:11
  4. 'ain't Nobody's Business But My Own 3:14
  5. I'll Never Be Free 3:11
  6. Tamburitza Boogie 3:13
  7. Chartreuse 2:36
  8. Lemonade 3:17
  9. It's A Great, Great Pleasure 3:09
  10. You Will Always Have A Friend 3:03
  11. Trouble Then Satisfaction 3:23
  12. Life Is So Peculiar 3:22
  13. You, Rascal You 3:07
  14. Teardrops From My Eyes 3:01
  15. Weak Minded Blues 2:31
  16. Is My Pop In There? 2:30
  17. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby 2:31
  18. If You So Smart, How Come You Ain't Rich 2:59
  19. Trust In Me 3:30
  20. Louisville Lodge Meeting 3:32
  21. How Blue Can You Get? 2:46
  22. May Every Day Be Christmas 3:12
  23. Please Don't Leave Me 3:16
Volume 2
  1. Bone Dry 3:03
  2. Three Handed Woman 2:47
  3. Fat Sam From Birmingham 3:00
  4. Cock-A-Doodle-Doo 2:13
  5. There Must Be A Way 3:12
  6. Come And Get It 2:53
  7. Slow Down 2:40
  8. Work, Baby Work 2:47
  9. Never Trust A Woman 2:55
  10. All Of Me 2:28
  11. There Goes My Heart 2:55
  12. Lay Something On The Bar 2:41
  13. Junco Partner 2:46
  14. Time Marches On 2:29
  15. Azure-Te (Paris Blues) 3:09
  16. Oil Well, Texas 2:29
  17. Jordan For President 2:59
  18. The Soon-A-Baby 2:25
  19. You Didn't Want Me Baby 2:46
  20. A Man's Best Friend Is A Bed 3:12
  21. I Didn't Know What Time It Was 3:23
  22. It's Better To Wait For Love 2:41
  23. Only Yesterday 3:08
  24. Just Like A Butterfly (That's Caught In The Rain) 3:18
  25. Crazy Baby 2:56

Notes

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE / LOUIS JOTDAN AND TRIO
Aaron Izenhall (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Josh Jackson (ts), Bill Doggett (p), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm).
Chicago, June 26, 1950.
1-01. 76540 I Want A Roof Over My Head [Decca 27129]
1-02. 76541 Show Me How (You Milk The Cow) [Decca 27129]
X-XX. 76542 Blue Light Boogie, Part 1 [Decca 27714]
1-03. 76543 Blue Light Boogie, Part 2 [Decca 27714]

ELLA FITZGERALD with LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Aaron Izenhall (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Josh Jackson (ts), Bill Doggett (p), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm).
New York City, August 15, 1950.
1-04. 76731 'Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own [Decca 27200]
ELLA FITZGERALD AND LOUIS JORDAN
poss. Hank Jones (p), John Collins (g), Ray Brown (sb), Charlie Smith (dm).
1-05. 76732 I'll Never Be Free [Decca 27200]

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Aaron Izenhall (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Josh Jackson (ts), Bill Doggett (p), Bill Davis (org), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm), unknown (perc).
New York City, August 18, 1950.
1-06. 76736 Tamburitza Boogie [Decca 27203]
1-07. 76737 Chartreuse [Decca 27324]
1-08. 76738 Lemonade [Decca 27324]
1-09. 76739 It's A Great, Great Pleasure [Decca 27428]
1-10. 76740-1 You Will Always Have A Friend [Decca 27620]

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Aaron Izenhall (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Josh Jackson (ts), Bill Doggett (p), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm).
New York City, August 21, 1950.
X-XX. 76741 Louisville Lodge Meeting
1-11. 76742 Trouble Then Satisfaction [Decca 27203]
2-25. 76743 Crazy Baby

LOUIS ARMSTRONG with LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Aaron Izenhall (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Josh Jackson (ts), Bill Doggett (p), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm), Louis Armstrong (vo).
New York City, August 23, 1950.
1-12. 76744 Life Is So Peculiar [Decca 27212]
1-13. 76745 You Rascal You [Decca 27212]

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Aaron Izenhall (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Josh Jackson (ts), unknown (bar), Wild Bill Davis (org), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm).
New York City, December 21, 1950.
1-14. 80299 Tear Drops From My Eyes [Decca 27428]
X-XX. 80300 If You've Got Some Place To Go

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Aaron Izenhall (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Josh Jackson (ts), unknown (bar), Wild Bill Davis (p), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm).
New York City, March 1, 1951.
1-15. 80633 Weak Minded Blues [Decca 27547]
1-16. 80634 Is My Pop In There [Decca 27547]
1-17. 80635 I Can't Give You Anything But Love [Decca 27620]

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Aaron Izenhall, Emmett Perry, Bob Mitchell (tp), Leon Comegys, Bob Burgess (tb), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Oliver Nelson (as), Josh Jackson, Reuben Phillis (ts), Marty Flax (bar), Jimmy Peterson (p), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm).
New York City, June 5, 1951.
1-18. 81121-T4 If You're So Smart How Come You Ain't Rich? [Decca 27648]
1-19. 81122 Trust In Me [Decca 27784]
1-20. 81123 Louisville Lodge Meeting [Decca 27969]
1-21. 81124-T2 How Blue Can You Get? [Decca 27648]
X-XX. 81125 Happy Birthday Boogie

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Aaron Izenhall, Emmett Perry, Bob Mitchell (tp), Leon Comegys, Bob Burgess (tb), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Oliver Nelson (as), Josh Jackson, Reuben Phillis (ts), Marty Flax (bar), Jimmy Peterson (p), Wild Bill Davis (org, vo), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm).
New York City, June 13, 1951.
1-22. 81148 May Every Day Be Christmas [Decca 27806]
1-23. 81149 Please Don't Leave Me [Decca 27694]
2-01. 81150 Bone Dry [Decca 27806]
X-XX. 81151 I Love That Kinda Carryin' On
2-02. 81152 Three Hundred Women [Decca 27694]
2-03. 81153-A Fat Sam From Birmingham [Decca 28983]

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Aaron Izenhall, Emmett Perry, Bob Mitchell (tp), Leon Comegys, Bob Burgess (tb), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Oliver Nelson (as), Josh Jackson, Reuben Phillis (ts), Marty Flax (bar), Jimmy Peterson (p), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm), Valli Ford (vo).
New York City, July 30, 1951.
2-04. 81321 Cock-A-Doodle-Doo [Decca 27784]
X-XX. 81322 Garmoochie
2-05. 81323 There Must Be A Way [Decca 28820]

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Aaron Izenhall, Harold "Money" Johnson, Emmett Perry, Bob Mitchell (tp), Alfred Cobbs, Bob Burgess (tb), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Oliver Nelson (as), Josh Jackson, Irving "Skinny" Brown (ts), Numa "Pee Wee" Moore (bar), Bill Doggett (org), John Malachi (p), Bill Jennings (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Chris Columbus (dm).
New York City, November 28, 1951.
2-06. 81908 Come And Get It [instrumental] [Decca 29655]
X-XX. 81909 Stop Makin' Music
2-07. 81910 Slow Down [Decca 28088]
2-08. 81911 Work Baby, Work [Decca 27969]
2-09. 81912 Never Trust A Woman [Decca 28088]
2-10. 81913-A All Of Me - vVF [Decca 28335]
2-11. 81914 There Goes My Heart [Decca 28335]
2-12. 81915 Lay Something On The Bar (Besides Your Elbow) [Decca 27898]

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Bob Mitchell (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Jimmy Peterson (p), Bert Payne (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Charlie Rice (dm).
New York City, April 30, 1952.
X-XX. 82793 Gimme Gimmie Blues
2-13. 82794 Junco Partner [Decca 28211]
2-14. 82795 Time Marches On [Decca 28820]
2-15. 82796 Azure-Te (Paris Blues) [Decca 28211]
2-16. 82797 Oil Well, Texas [Decca 28225]
82798 There's Nothing Else That I Can Do

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Bob Mitchell (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Jimmy Peterson (p), Bert Payne (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Charlie Rice (dm).
Washington, May 8, 1952.
2-17. 82834 Jordan For President [Decca 28225]
X-XX. 82835 The Soon-A-Baby

LOUIS JORDAN AND HIS TYMPANY FIVE
Bob Mitchell (tp), Louis Jordan (as, vo), Jimmy Peterson (p), Bert Payne (g), Bob Bushnell (sb), Charlie Rice (dm).
New York City, December 3, 1952.
X-XX. 83681 There's Nothing Else That I Can Do
2-18. 83682-A The Soon-A-Baby [Decca 28983]
2-19. 83683 You Didn't Want Me Baby [Decca 28543]
2-20. 83684 A Man's Best Friend Is A Bed [Decca 28543]

LOUIS JORDAN
Vocal acc. orchestra under the direction of Nelson Riddle.
Los Angeles, February 23, 1952.
2-21. L 7059 I Didn't Know What Time It Was [Decca 29166]
2-22. L 7060 It's Better To Wait For Love [Decca 28664]
2-23. L 7061 Only Yesterday [Decca 29166]
2-24. L 7062 Just Like a Butterfly (That's Caught in the Rain) [Decca 28664]