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Episode 4: “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” by Louis Jordan

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Basey's Band Beats Chick Webb

The only band to ever beat chick webb was duke allington. Chick webb misheard a discussion between a couple of the dancers about how good the base band was going to be that night. After this provocation, white issued an ultimatum to his lindy hoppersd: They were only going to dance to base and not to webb.

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