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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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O Revormgi Singers - You End You Now You Do

louis jordan was very much in the mould of singers like gallard or calloway or fatswaller. O revormgi singers weren't usually technically great, but they had personality. They were hip, and they often used made up words of their own. And Jordan is the way that that stream became part of rock music. Most of jordan's songs were written by him himself, although he is not credited writer on many of them. His then wife fleecy moore later split up after multiple separate occasions where she stabbed him, but she retained credit on the songs. So for example, she's credited on caldonia, which is a perfect example of jordan

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