What's the Use of Getting Sober
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"What's the Use of Getting Sober" is a 1942 novelty song by Louis Jordan
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. The song was Louis Jordan's second release and the first of eighteen number ones on the R&B chart
"What's the Use of Getting Sober" is a 1942 novelty song by Louis Jordan
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. The song was Louis Jordan's second release and the first of eighteen number ones on the R&B chart
"What's the Use of Getting Sober" is a 1942 novelty song by Louis Jordan
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. The song was Louis Jordan's second release and the first of eighteen number ones on the R&B chart .

Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson (musician)
Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

 covered the song on the 1981 album Jumpin' Jive
Jumpin' Jive (Joe Jackson album)
Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive is a 1981 album by Joe Jackson. It is a collection of covers of classic 1940's swing and jump blues songs originally performed by musicians such as Louis Jordan and Cab Calloway, the latter of whom's song "Jumpin' Jive" was the eponym for this album.The album, and...

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