The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman - episode 21 (ALT)
Race Music Chart
Number ones, 1946 and other listings
Following last week's ALT episode, this week the number one hits of 1946 and some chart entries of that year that didn't make it to the top op the Race Chart.
1946 was the success year of Louis Jordan, with that other hit that shares the longest stay on number one of the Rhythm & Blues hitparades with Joe Liggins' Honeydripper: the Choo Choo Ch'Boogie. In this show I will make a comparison between the two and tell why, as a song, I value the Honeydripper better, but the way Louis Jordan dominated the hit lists of the mid-forties, in a way that we've never seen ever since, can only deserve the greatest respect.
Playlist
- Pearl Bailey - Fifteen Years
- Lionel Hampton - Hey-Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
- Louis Jordan - Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule
- Helen Humes - Be Baba Leba
- Marion 'Blues Woman' Abernathy - Voo-It! Voo-It!
- Jubalaires with Andy Kirk & his Clouds Of Joy - I Know
- Ink Spots - The Gypsy
- Nat King Cole - Route 66
- Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Drifting Blues
- Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra - Shorty's Got To Go
- Louis Jordan - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
- Big Joe Turner & Wild Bill Moore's Lucky Seven Band - My Gal's a Jockey
- Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers - Tanya
- Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup - So Glad You're Mine
- Julia Lee - Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got
- Roy Milton & his Solid Senders - Milton's Boogie
- Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five - Ain't That Just Like a Woman
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Count Basie & His Orchestra - One O'Clock Boogie
- Count Basie & His Orchestra - One O'Clock Jump
- Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - Main Stem
- Harry James & His Orchestra - Jump Town
- Lionel Hampton - Hamp Boogie Woogie
- Lennie Lewis - Blue Flame