The Essential Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
  2:47
• 2
  Somebody Done Changed the Lock on That Door
  3:17
• 3
  Salt Pork, West Virginia
  3:02
• 4
  Open the Door, Richard
  3:04
• 5
  Run Joe
  3:24
• 6
  Small Town Boy
  2:52
• 7
  The Green Grass Grows All Around
  2:56
• 8
  Early in the Mornin'
  3:25
• 9
  Don't Burn the Candle at Both Ends
  2:46
• 10
  Boogie Woogie Blue Plate
  2:49
• 11
  Beware!
  2:54
• 12
  Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'
  3:02
• 13
  Texas and Pacific
  3:08
• 14
  It's a Low-Down, Dirty Shame
  2:48
• 15
  Why'd You Do It, Baby?
  3:22
• 16
  Pettin' and Pokin'
  2:35
• 17
  Daddy-O
  3:18
• 18
  The Chicks I Pick Are Slender, Tender and Tall
  2:28
• 19
  We Can't Agree
  2:55
• 20
  Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?
  2:45
• 21
  Flat Face
  2:44
• 22
  My Baby Said 'Yes"
  2:56
• 23
  You're on the Right Track, Baby
  3:05
• 24
  Barnyard Boogie
  2:49
• 25
  How Long Must I Wait for You?
  2:40
• 26
  Stone Cold Dead in de Market
  2:41
• CD 2
• 1
  Ain't That Just Like a Woman?
  2:53
• 2
  Look Out!
  2:59
• 3
  It's So Easy
  2:54
• 4
  How 'Bout That?
  2:57
• 5
  Five Guys Named Moe
  3:01
• 6
  Reconversion Blues
  2:25
• 7
  A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird
  2:37
• 8
  I Know You (I Know What You Wanna Do)
  2:33
• 9
  Your Socks Don't Match
  3:00
• 10
  Let the Good Times Roll
  2:53
• 11
  I Know What You're Puttin' Down
  3:10
• 12
  Sam Jones Done Snagged His Britches
  2:43
• 13
  Swingin' in the Coconut Trees
  2:46
• 14
  Keep A-Knockin'
  2:35
• 15
  Deacon Jones
  2:58
• 16
  Doug the Jitterbug
  2:33
• 17
  At the Swing Cat's Ball
  2:31
• 18
  That Chick's Too Young to Fry
  2:26
• 19
  G.I. Jive
  3:01
• 20
  Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule
  2:31
• 21
  Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
  3:09
• 22
  Jack, You're Dead
  2:37
• 23
  I Like 'Em Fat Like That
  2:38
• 24
  All for the Love of Lil
  2:55
• 25
  Petootie Pie
  2:37

More by Louis Jordan

Five Guys Named Moe (1992 original Broadway cast)

Five Guys Named Moe (1992 original Broadway cast) 1992

The Best of Louis Jordan

The Best of Louis Jordan 1975

The Greatest Hits

The Greatest Hits 2022

Let the Good Times Roll

Let the Good Times Roll 2020

Bones Blues

Bones Blues 2011

The Anthology

The Anthology 2011

Release credits

• Bing Crosby
  vocal [9]
• Charlie Drayton
  double bass [14]
• Clarence Johnson
  piano [14]
• Courtney Williams
  trumpet [14]
• Ella Fitzgerald
  vocal [26]
• Lemuel Johnson
  tenor saxophone [14]
• Louis Jordan
  alto saxophone [14], baritone saxophone [14], clarinet [14], conductor [9], vocal [9, 14]
• Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
  performing orchestra [2.9, 1.26]
• Walter Martin
  drums (drum set) [14]

Issues

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  The Essential Collection

  2x CD
  19 February 2007