40s Jump & Jive

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01 Mr. Five By Five - Ella Mae Morse 1942

02 Strange Things Happening Everyday

- Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1944

03 Caldonia - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five 1945

04 Choo Choo Ch’boogie

- Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five 1946

05 Down The Road Apiece - Amos Milburn 1946

06 House Of Blue Lights - Ella Mae Morse

with Don Raye & Freddie Slack & His Orchestra 1946

07 I Want To Boogie Woogie - Buster Bennett Band 1946

08 My Gal’s A Jockey - Big Joe Turner

with Wild Bill Moore’s Lucky Seven Band 1946

09 Shufflin’ Boogie - Luke Jones

& Joe Alexander’s Highlanders 1946

10 Drinking Ink Splink - Andrew Tibbs 1947

11 Good Rockin’ Tonight - Wynonie Harris All Stars 1947

12 I Want A Bowlegged Woman

- Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats 1947

13 Keep A Dollar In Your Pocket

- Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 1947

14 Kidney Stew Blues - Eddie”Cleanhead” Vinson

& His Orchestra 1947

15 Rock Bottom - Gene Phillips & His Rhythm Aces 1947

16 Send For Me If You Need Me - The Ravens 1947

17 Spoon Calls Hootie - Jimmy Witherspoon 1947

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During the big band era there was a developing Rhythm & Blues movement, an up-tempo blues style played by smaller bands usually with a blues shouter on vocals and known as Jump Blues. The tracks here are a selection of jump blues forming this transition to rhythm & blues and was also instrumental in laying the foundations of rock’n’roll - but more of this later in our program on 50s Jive & Jive.

Blues, jazz, swing and boogie-woogie were the styles contributing to this mainly horn featured music which was very dance orientated, as in the ‘jitterbug’ dance craze.

40s Jump & Jive

18 We’re Gonna Rock, We’re Gonna Roll

- Wild Bill Moore (ft. Paul Williams) 1947

19 Hop, Skip and Jump

- Roy Milton & His Solid Senders 1948

20 I Want My Fanny Brown - Wynonie Harris 1948

21 I Want To Rock and Roll - Scatman Crothers 1948

22 2 O’Clock In The Morning

- Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown 1949

23 Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee

- Stick McGhee & His Buddies 1949

24 Hucklebuck Daddy

- Jimmy Preston & His Prestonians 1949

25 I Like My Baby’s Puddin’ - Wynonie Harris 1949

26 Miss Lollipop’s Confession

- Alma “The Lollipop Mama” Mondy 1949

27 Ooo, Ouch, Stop! - Big Joe Turner 1949

28 Rock Awhile - Goree Carter & His Hepcats 1949

29 Rockin’ At Midnight - Roy Brown 1949

30 Rockola - Joe Lutcher & His Society Cats 1949

31 Roomin’ House Boogie - Amos Milburn 1949

32 The Deacon’s Hop - Big Jay McNeely 1949

33 We’re Gonna Rock This Morning

- Doles Dickens 1949

34 You’re My Best Poker Hand - T-Bone Walker 1949

A loud, grittier version of swing which often featured a hot saxophone together with raunchy or saucy lyrics it proved very popular with ballroom audiences who loved the freedom of movement in their dancing and the ‘jive talk’ in the lyrics.

Popular mainly in the late 40s and early 50s, we have included numbers by both well-known and lesser known artists and it has been difficult to reduce the number of tracks by some of the most popular artists, such as Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker, Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown, Roy Milton etc. so I am sure another program is on the horizon.

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