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Let the Good Times Roll: The Complete Decca Recordings 1938-54
Release Date: 1994-03-31, Audio CD, Bear Family
- Price Range:$194.98 to $214.99 | 2 stores
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- Posted: May-14-2008
WOW
Buy it! If you are here looking at this collection do not stress over the price tag. It is worth every penny and much more. I bought this collection months ago and I have been listening to it on random play ever since. I haven't listened to anything else except a little count bassie. Not...
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- Posted: Mar-14-2008
Sassy, jiving jump blues from the master
I grew up listening to the blues, soul, and Motown, but I wasn't familiar with Louis Jordan until several months ago, when I purchased this Bear Family box set as a retirement gift for a family member. Jordan was a gifted saxophonist and one of the leading architects of R&B; his prototypes paved...
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- Posted: Dec-19-2007
I'll Die Happy
Taj Mahal owns this box set. He recommended it to me but when I saw the price tag, I put it on my Amazon wishlist where it languished for years until I finally received it as a birthday gift from my wife! Now, as Louis Jordan himself says "I'll Die Happy!"
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- Posted: Oct-18-2007
Unbelievable
The sound quality is UNBELIEVABLE as are the performances. This is the comprehensive collection to purchase if you are at all interested in the beginnings of what would become rock and roll. Bear Family is heavenly.
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- Posted: Feb-26-2007
The Incomparable Louis Jordan
This has to be one of THE GREATEST box sets ever issued. LOUIS JORDAN * LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL contains 215 songs on nine CDs, as well as a beautiful 48-page LP-sized booklet filled with amazing photos, poster, magazine cover and advertising repros, a comic strip, news clippings,...
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- Posted: Feb-26-2006
Not a foot note but an Encyclopedia
I was introduced to Louis Jordan through Joe Jackson's "Jumpin' Jive" album when that was released around 1981. I loved it so much I sought out the original versions of the tunes Jackson covered and, in doing so, purchased a Louis Jordan's hits compilation. Every song on there was a gem! I had to...
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- Posted: Mar-05-2004
A Treasure, An Underappreciated Star
Somewhere along the way, Louis Jordan went from R&B King to nonentity. When the the Neoswing revival crested, Louis got some props, but not enough. This High Quality German Import, (sadly, it could never come from the U.S.) is a well-deserved monument toa musician who should be as famous as Fats...
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- Posted: Jan-27-2002
The Ultimate Louis Jordan
What a set! Simply awesome! Heaven for Louis Jordan fans. This set contains a great deal of material that hasn't previously been on CD. Included are tracks from Louis short lived Big Band from the 1950's. As far as I know, none of Louis Big Band recordings are available elsewhere on CD....
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- Posted: Jan-22-2000
Can't stop
It's a low down dirty shame that Louis Jordan doesn't get more credit for the resurgence of swing/jump blues that we are currently experiencing. Everything there is about finger-snapping, toe-tapping rhythms and make-you-laugh-make-you-cry lyrics that permeates pop music today owes something to...
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- Posted: Jun-22-1999
An incredible cornucopia from the father of rock 'n' roll
You can keep your Squirrel Nuts zipped up tight -- Louis Jordan was the king of swing. This is where big band jazz began to mutate into rock 'n' roll. There are plenty of single and double discs out there to give you a taste of Jordan, nicknamed "Kind of the Jukeboxes," but this 9-disc blowout...
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