Sam Theard
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Samuel F. Theard was an American singer, songwriter, actor and comedian. He performed under the names Lovin' Sam F. Theard, Spo-Dee-O-Dee and others.
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Louis Jordan
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Louis Thomas Jordan was an American jazz, blues and jump blues saxophonist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "the King of the Jukebo
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…at the Apollo Theater in Harlem during the 1930s and 1940s, and also recorded under that name in 1941. Another well-known song, cowritten in 1942 with Louis Jordan but credited to Jordan's wife Fleecie Moore, was "Let the Good Times Roll", which became a hit several years later when Louis Jordan and His Tympany…
Jordan in New York City, 1946
Louis Jordan's Tympany Five (c. 1946–1948)
Jordan in New York, July 1946, shortly after getting second billing to Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra at the Paramount.