Caldonia
| Caldonia | |
|---|---|
| Louis Jordan | |
| publication | 1945 |
| length | 2:41 |
| Genre (s) | Jump blues |
| Author (s) | Fleecie Moore |
| Award (s) | 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Grammy Hall of Fame (1998), Blues Hall of Fame (2009) |
| Cover versions | |
| 1971 | BB King |
| 2007 | Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis |
Caldonia is a jump blues song by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. The song was released by Decca in 1945 , and it became Jordan's fifth number one on the R&B charts .
Emergence
On the cover of the single, Jordan's then-wife Fleecie Moore is named as the author, but it is likely that Jordan wrote the song himself but gave his wife's name in order to work with another publisher. After their divorce, Jordan said:
- "Fleecie Moore's name is on it, but she didn't have anything to do with it. That was my wife at the time, and we put it in her name.
- She didn't know nothin 'about no music at all. Her name is on this song and that song, and she's still getting money. ”(Fleecie Moore's name is on it, but she had nothing to do with it. She was my wife then , and we wrote her name down. She has absolutely no idea about music. Her name is on this and that song and she still gets money for it.)
The song hit the R&B charts in May 1945 and peaked at the top in June, where it stayed for seven weeks. In the pop charts, the title reached number six under the name Caldonia Boogie . There is a soundie to the song that was a precursor to music videos. These are about three minutes long films in which Afro-American musicians in particular had the opportunity to present their music to a wider audience.
Impact history
Caldonia is a song that comes in many cover versions. In the incomplete list of Second Hand Songs, 21 cover versions are listed. In 1946 the play for the film Love Me or Leave Me was interpreted by the then 11-year-old child prodigy Frankie "Sugar Chile" Robinson . Well-known blues artists such as Pinetop Perkins , Memphis Slim , Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , Muddy Waters or BB King recorded the song.
But the title is also popular across genre boundaries, so there are also covers by Willie Nelson , Wynton Marsalis , Van Morrison , Woody Herman , James Brown and Bill Haley . In 2009 the song was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame . The song is also listed in the Grammy Hall of Fame, where it was recorded in 1998.
The song was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claude Demetrius. ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Rockabilly.nl
- ^ Movie Data Base
- ↑ Second hand songs
- ↑ Grammy Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 500 songs that shaped rock and roll
