Take 5 with Louis Jordan

Louis Jordan was one of the kings of the Juke Box for the forties until the early fifties. His place in the music world was such that The Beat!!! devoted a show to him in the mid-1960s, after his ruling of the record charts had ended.

We are fortunate that so much actual video of him performing exists. We start off this brief playlist with what may be his most famous song, "Caldonia."

Next up is a clip of him doing a song that later was used for a musical devoted to his music, "Five Guys Named Moe."

Louis Jordan's "Let the Good Times Roll" would be covered by B.B. King, Ray Charles, Koko Taylor and so many more.

Then there is rambunctious humor of "Saturday Night Fish Fry."

We close this brief sampling of Louis Jordan with a performance from The Beat!!! TV show of "GI Jive."