For those that don't know of Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five, he was a musician/ songwriter/ singer/ band leader from Brinkley, Arkansas. Louis Jordan recorded with Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald before going solo. Ray Charles-"I have to admit that Louis Jordan has a great and lasting influence upon my music", James Brown-"He was everything." BB King-"Louis was remarkable, because he was so far ahead of his time. What he was doing became the origins of Rock n' Roll. I idolized his talent". From 1942 to 1951, Louis Jordan scored an astonishing 57 R&B hits (all on Decca). Let The Good Times Roll, Caledonia, Buzz Me, Choo Choo Ch' Boogie, Ain't That Just like a Woman, Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens, What's The Use Of Getting Sober,  Beans & Cornbread, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Blue Light Boogie, Five Guys Named Moe, and more. Louis Jordan ranked as the #1 R&B artist of the 1940's, and one of the Top 5 all-time R&B artists. He had 57 hits in the Top-40, of which 54 were in the Top-10. Overall, Louis Jordan's recordings spent a staggering 28 weeks in the #1 spot  on Billboard. The beat and personality of Louis Jordan's horn driven music set the stage for Rock n' Roll before the term was even coined. When the big bands were all the rage, he became famous with a small combo (Tympani Five), as most Rock n' Roll musicians later did. He was one of the first to join electric guitar and bass with horns, and his over-the-beat spoken monologues are a prototype of Rap. Louis Jordan was not only a major Blues and Jazz star but laid the groundwork for Rock n' Roll in the 1950s. His importance to popular music cannot be overstated, and in 1983, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame and the Rock&Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2001 Louis Jordan received the R&B Foundation's prestigious Legacy Tribute Award for his contributions to American music.  Mp3-  Let the Good Times Roll