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Track Listing
1. Five Guys Named Moe
2. Is You Is or Is You Ain't (My Baby)
3. Safe, Sane and Single
4. Life Is So Peculiar - (with Louis Armstrong)
5. I Know What I've Got
6. Open the Door Richard
7. Reet, Petit and Gone
8. Boogie Woogie Blue Plate
9. Pettin' and Pokin'
10. Chartruesse, (You Dyed Your Hair)
11. Jordan For President
12. Look Out (Sister, Look Out)
13. Azure Te
14. G. I. Jive
15. I Like 'Em Fat Like That
16. Push Ka Pee Shee Pie
17. Jack, You're Dead
18. Texas and Pacific
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Louis Armstrong | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Full title: Five Guys Named Moe: The Original Decca Recordings, Vol. 2.
18 tracks, recorded 1939-1954 and digitally transferred from the original masters and original acetate safeties. 10 of the songs are featured in the play `Five Guys Named Moe'; 7 of the tracks are previously unreleased on LP.
Personnel includes: Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong.
The follow-up to the excellent THE BEST OF LOUIS JORDAN, this disc was titled to cash in on the success of the Off-Broadway musical of the same name, based on Jordan's classic jump blues songs. This 18-track collection, gathered from Decca singles from the mid-'40s to the early '50s, isn't second-rate material, however. In fact, in some ways, this is stronger than THE BEST OF LOUIS JORDAN, with which it shares no tracks. Kicking off with the one-two punch of the 1944 singles "Five Guys Named Moe" and "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby," the set swings through a wild pile of jump blues classics, like the bawdy "Open the Door Richard" and the inexplicable "You Dyed Your Hair Chartreuse." Other highlights include a bouncy duet with the great Louis Armstrong, "Life Is So Peculiar," and the wartime hit "G.I. Jive." With or without its companion disc, FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE is essential Louis Jordan.
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