Let the Good Times Roll (Louis Jordan song)
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"Let the Good Times Roll" is a song was recorded in 1946 by Louis Jordan
and his Tympany Five
, and became a # 2 hit on the R&B
chart in the United States.
The song was written by "Lovin'" Sam Theard (1904-1982), a New Orleans-born blues
singer and songwriter, and was co-credited to Fleecie Moore. Moore was Louis Jordan's wife, and was sometimes given credit on songs which Jordan himself had written to get around music publishing restrictions.
The song was later recorded by many artists including Ray Charles
, B. B. King
and Georgie Fame
.
Louis Jordan
Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the...
and his Tympany Five
Tympany Five
Tympany Five was a successful rhythm and blues and jazz dance band founded by Louis Jordan in 1938. The group was composed of a horn section of three to five different pieces and also drums, double bass, guitar and piano. After playing in Chicago at the Capitol Lounge in 1941, Jordan and his band...
, and became a # 2 hit on the R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
chart in the United States.
The song was written by "Lovin'" Sam Theard (1904-1982), a New Orleans-born blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
singer and songwriter, and was co-credited to Fleecie Moore. Moore was Louis Jordan's wife, and was sometimes given credit on songs which Jordan himself had written to get around music publishing restrictions.
The song was later recorded by many artists including Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
, B. B. King
B. B. King
Riley B. King , known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No.3 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. According to Edward M...
and Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame
Georgie Fame is a British rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. The one-time rock and roll tour musician, who had a string of 1960s hits, is still a popular performer, often working with contemporaries such as Van Morrison and Bill Wyman.-Early life:Fame took piano lessons from the...
.