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unusual facts about Louis Jordan


Newark-Pompton Turnpike

The song was covered as a jazz/blues vocal version by Louis Jordan, the "King of the Jukebox" in the 1940s.


Arnold Manoff

Three more of his screenplays were made into movies prior to his being blacklisted: My Buddy (1944), Casbah (1948, starring Peter Lorre and Yvonne De Carlo), and No Minor Vices (1948, starring Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer, and Louis Jordan).

Coleridge Goode

He was already proficient as an amateur classical violinist but turned to jazz and took up the bass after hearing the music of such stars as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Louis Jordan.

Damn Right, I've Got the Blues

# "Early In The Morning" (Leo Hickman, Louis Jordan, Dallas Bartley) 3:09

J. Mayo Williams

Songs on which he is credited as co-writer include "Corrine, Corrina", Nellie Lutcher's "Fine Brown Frame", Louis Jordan's "Mop Mop", and Stick McGhee's "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee".


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