One Guy Named Louis

Louis Jordan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 21, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B000005HHF
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #215,241 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #59 in Music > Indie Music > R&B > Classic R&B

Track Listings

1. Whiskey Do Your Stuff

2. Dad Gum Ya Hide, Boy

3. Gal You Need a Whippin'

4. Time's a Passin'

5. It's Hard to Be Good Without You

6. The Dripper

7. Till We Two Are One

8. Ooo Wee

9. I Seen What'cha Done

10. Fat Back and Corn Liquor

11. Put Some Money in the Pot, 'Cause the Juice Is Running Low

12. Private Property (No Trespassing)

13. Gotta Go

14. For You

15. Messy Bessy

16. Louis' Blues

17. I'll Die Happy

18. If I Had Any Sense I'd Go Back Home

19. Hurry Home

20. A Dollar Down

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Play back all the tracks, Jack!, January 17, 2000

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Brian Grzybowski (Charlottesville, Va.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Guy Named Louis (Audio CD)

If you are a big Louis Jordan fan, you must own this album. I discovered Jordan erroneously when a company sent me "5 Guys Named Moe!" instead of a Bobby Bland album. From that day on I was hooked. After I had purchased numerous greatest hits albums, I decided to suck it up and buy some of the lesser known(and I thought lesser skilled) material. To my surprise it was equally immpressive. Not as many toe- tappers or barn-burners here, but if you love Jordan it's not much money to shell out for the real deal. So open that door Richard!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Louis Jordan at the birth of rock & roll, March 15, 2007

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Guy Named Louis (Audio CD)

When Louis Jordan left DECCA records in late 1953, his career was already on the decline. After dozens of hit releases, Jordan's brand of swing was simply out of pace with the coming musical phenomenon: R&B influenced rock & roll. When Bill Haley & the Comets arrrived at Louis' old label around the time Jordan left, his old producer, Milt Gabler, showed Haley all of the Tympany Five's tricks, which is how "Shake Rattle & Roll" and "Rock Around The Clock" came into existence.

While with the small independent label, ALADDIN, Jordan waxed these 21 sides in two separate 1954 sessions. Nine singles were issued on an almost monthly basis, as well as an LP. None sold very well-- this is no reflection on the music's quality; Jordan's time had simply passed. It happens to the best of them.

For any fan of swing, ONE GUY NAMED LOUIS is a must have. Sound quality is superb, performances too. Includes eight pages of liner notes.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME -- 58:49

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lesser known, but not lesser quality LJ, February 19, 2002

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Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Guy Named Louis (Audio CD)

The grandmaster of Jazz & R&B comedy recorded these lesser-known tunes in 1954 for Aladdin records. They were not as well known due to the onslaught of newer rock and roll sounds at the time, but are of no lesser quality. Check out the wonderful instrumentals "The Dripper" and "Gotta Go" (the latter contains a lick from LJ's "Don't Worry Bout That Mule"). "Gal You Need a Whuppin'" is too wacky to take seriously and offensively. "A Dollar Down" is an interesting story song about LJ's problems with credit with a very contemporary sound. "If I Had Any Sense I'd Go Back Home" is a bluesy lament of a country migrant to the city. "Messy Bessy" is the comic tale of a pugnacious woman and "I'll Die Happy"...well, you just gotta hear it.

There were three great masters of comical story-songs, Bert Williams, Slick Rick, and Louis Jordan.