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“Jack, You’re Dead!” by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five

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    “Jack, You’re Dead!” by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five is an R&B song from 1947.

    “Jack You’re Dead” is a clever double-entendre about impotence and one can see the roots of Little Richard’s scream in “Caldonia.”

    Song Title: Jack, You’re Dead!
    Artist: Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five
    Genre: R&B jump blues
    Lead Vocals: Louis Jordan
    Saxophone: Louis Jordan
    Date:: 1947

    This song is the number nine (9) song of 1947 according to Digital Dream Door’s Adam.

    Number of listens: 15553

    Louis Jordan was one of the most popular singers of the 20th Century and pioneered the sounds that becme R&B and rock ’n Roll.

    Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as “The King of the Jukebox”, he was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him no. 59 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

    Jordan was one of the most successful African-American musicians of the 20th century, ranking fifth in the list of the all-time most successful black recording artists according to Billboard magazine’s chart methodology. Though comprehensive sales figures are not available, he scored at least four million-selling hits during his career. Jordan regularly topped the R&B “race” charts, and was one of the first black recording artists to achieve a significant “crossover” in popularity into the mainstream (predominantly white) American audience, scoring simultaneous Top Ten hits on the white pop charts on several occasions. After Duke Ellington and Count Basie, Louis Jordan was probably the most popular and successful African-American bandleader of his day.

    Jordan was a talented singer with great comedic flair, and he fronted his own band for more than twenty years. He duetted with some of the biggest solo singing stars of his day, including Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong. Jordan was also an actor and a major black film personality—he appeared in dozens of “soundies” (promotional film clips), made numerous cameos in mainstream features and short films, and starred in two musical feature films made especially for him. He was an instrumentalist who played all forms of the saxophone, but specialized in the alto, in addition to playing piano and clarinet. A productive songwriter, he wrote or co-wrote many songs that became influential classics of 20th-century popular music.

    Although Jordan began his career in big-band swing jazz in the 1930s, he became famous as one of the leading practitioners, innovators and popularizers of “jump blues”, a swinging, up-tempo, dance-oriented hybrid of jazz, blues and boogie-woogie. Typically performed by smaller bands consisting of five or six players, jump music featured shouted, highly syncopated vocals and earthy, comedic lyrics on contemporary urban themes. It strongly emphasized the rhythm section of piano, bass and drums; after the mid-1940s, this mix was often augmented by electric guitar. Jordan’s band also pioneered the use of electric organ.

    With his dynamic Tympany Five bands, Jordan mapped out the main parameters of the classic R&B, urban blues and early rock’n’roll genres with a series of hugely influential 78 rpm discs for the Decca label. These recordings presaged many of the styles of black popular music in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and exerted a huge influence on many leading performers in these genres. Many of his records were produced by Milt Gabler, who went on to refine and develop the qualities of Jordan’s recordings in his later production work with Bill Haley, including “Rock Around The Clock”.

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    Summary quotation from Wikipedia:

    “Jack, You’re Dead” is a 1947 single by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. The single went to number one on the R&B chart for seven weeks . The B-side of “Jack, You’re Dead”, a song entitled, “I Know What You’re Puttin’ Down” reached number three on the R&B chart.

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