Caboose to the Future: Choo-Choo-Choosing the Boogie (1946)

As we depart Chattanooga, we’re going to take one more quick ride on a musical choo choo!

This time our conductor is the great Louis Jordan, who along with his Tympany Five, brings us Choo Choo Ch’Boogie on Decca Records in 1946!

Here comes Mr. Jordan:

 

Louis Jordan made a ton of great records, but everything just seems to come together just right on this record! Listeners rode it for 18 weeks at number one on the R&B charts!

Pianist Wild Bill Davis and guitarist Carl Hogan keep the drivers drivin’ on this sleek jump-blues express! You know young Chuck Berry was listening!

Note that one of the co-writers is Milt Gabler, Louis’s producer at Decca, who helped Louis become King of the Jukeboxes!

And was it such a 'jump' for Milt Gabler to go from producing Louis Jordan’s jump blues to Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock? Not at all—the tracks were already laid!