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Track Listing
DISC 1: 1938-1940:
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 On
6. Swinging 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 Hoodoo'd the Hoodoo Man
19. Bounce the Ball (Do Dah Diddle Dum Day)
20. Penthouse in the Basement
21. After School Swing Session
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 Nothing But a Bird, A
27. Pompton Turnpike
28. Do You Call That a Buddy?
29. I Know You. I Know What You Wanna Do
DISC 2: 1941-1944:
1. Pinetop's Boogie
2. Two Little Squirrels, The (Nuts to You)
3. T-Bone Blues
4. Pan Pan
5. St. Vitus Dance, The
6. Saxa Woogie
7. Brotherly Love
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, The
13. Small Town Boy
14. I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town
15. What's the Use of Getting Sober
16. Chicks I Pick Are Slender Tender and Tall, The
17. I'm Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town
18. That'll Just About 'Bout 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
DISC 3: 1944-1946:
1. My Baby Said Yes (Yip, Yip de Hootie)
2. Your Socks Don't Match
3. Buzz Me
4. Caldonia Blues
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
10. Petootie Pie
11. Reconversion Blues
12. It's So Easy
13. 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
DISC 4: 1947-1949:
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. Coleslaw
25. Beans and Corn Bread
DISC 5: 1949-1950:
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
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. I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal You)
23. Tear Drops From My Eyes
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Louis Jordan (vocals, clarinet, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones); Yack Taylor, Daisy Winchester, Mabel Robinson, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Martha Davis (vocals); Carl Hogan, Bill Jennings (electric guitar); Stafford Simon (flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone); Lem Johnson, Kenneth Holt (clarinet, tenor saxophone); James Wright, Josh Jackson (tenor saxophone); Courtney Williams, Freddy Webster, Eddie Roane, Aaron Izenhall, Bob Mitchell, Harold Mitchell (trumpet); Clarence Johnson, Arnold Thomas, Wild Bill Davis, Bill Doggett, Hank Jones (piano); Charlie Drayton, Henry Turner, Jesse Simpkins, Dallas Bartley, Al Morgan, Bob Bushnell, Billy Hadnott (bass); Walter Martin, Rossiere Wilson, Joe Morris (drums).
Recorded between 1938 & 1950.
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