Louis Jordan: Somebody Up There Digs Me (LP, 10inch, Ltd.) GREEN WAX

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JUST IN THIS AMAZINGSERIES OF 10" VINYL LP's FROM BEAR FAMILY RECORDS IN GERMANY

Louis Jordan: Somebody Up There Digs Me (LP, 10inch, Ltd.)

BEAR FAMILY Vinyl Club Exclusive - limitierte Sammleredition

1-LP 25cm (limitiert auf 500 Exemplare)

10inch LP (limited edition - yellow vinyl)

12 Tracks. Unique 10inch in our 11000 collectors series

Reissues of the very rare British 10inch LP Mercury MPT 7521!

Reproduction of the rare original album cover

Painstakingly remastered for highest fidelity and pressed on high quality vinyl!

Limited to 500 copies pressed on color vinyl

Louis Jordan (* Juli 8, 1908 in Brinkley, Arkansas; † February 4, 1975 in Los Angeles)

After his sucessful stint at Decca records since 1938 as "King of the Jukebox" and a strong string of hits, Jordan's star began to sink with the beginning of the 1950s. Producer Milt Gable, who was also the man for Louis Armstrong's and Billie Holiday's careers, didn't prolong the partnership with Jordan, because a new thing was coming: Mister Haley and Rock and Roll.

Louis recorded the next years for Aladdin, Vik and X, but without smashes for him. In 1956 he signed with Mercury Records in Chicago. The plan was a mashup of his old hits but with the new sound, hard-driving, fast and furious. The right man was responsible for the production, the still young Quincy Jones. He got together a team of very skillful Jazz and Blues musicians (Mickey Baker, Jimmy Cleveland, Sam 'The Man' Taylor, Ernie Royal, Charlie Persip ...), and the recordings became classics in their own right, as they were completely different from the 1940s originals. Mercury (US) released a longplayer ... and failed. In Great Britain, oddly enough, PYE issued the same LP in full length as a 10inch LP, for whatever reason. Hard-to-find today, this British issue from 1957 gives a great look on the "Grandfather of Rock and Roll" in a new bloom. A "must have".

A-Side:​Caldonia

Is You Is Or Is You Ain't Ma Baby

Run Joe

Early In The Morning

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie

Knock Me A Kiss

B-Side:

Let The Goog Times Roll

Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying

Beware Brother Beware

I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town

Salt Pork West Virginia

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens 

Please note: strictly limited to 500 copies, worldwide!