
Episode 4: “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” by Louis Jordan
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Last Line They Say When They Goin' to Find You
Malt gabler started out as the owner of a little record shop. He had a massive passion for good jas music, and so did his customers. His labels pioneered things like putting a full list of all the musicians on a record onto it. In 19 39, one of his regular customers, billy holiday, had a problem. She'd been performing a new song, which she really wanted to record,. but her covent label, columbia, wasn't interested thatSong was too political, even for her. The song became billy holiday's best known performance is strange fruit - about lynching. They changed their name to louis jordan and his tempany
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