VIDEO: Louis Jordan Live TV Show 1966

[JSngry]

Old School kickass R&BJazz showbiz theoretically past its shelf date, but damned if you can prove it by me. Would have loved to have seen them and The Treniers on the same bill in a Battle Of The Bands.

Leo Blevins on guitar!

Also two cuts by Freddie King at the end, one with house band leader Gatemouth Brown getting some play.

They're gone and they ain't gonna be no more. So... let's go to tape.

[Big Beat Steve]

Amazing that they used Louis Jordan for that program as late as 1966. He was near the end of his recorded run and, alas, certainly past his public-appeal prime by that time.
OTOH, TV host/(ex-)DJ Hoss Allen must also have been a bit past his most active prime by 1966. If my sources are correct his most important years were in the pre-R'n'R days.

I am not familiar with that show and its place and status on TV of those days, but considering everything, maybe they catered to a somewhat older audience that still fondly remembered the likes of Louis Jordan? Anyway ... it's nice to see Louis Jordan in THAT context. "Caldonia" is taken at bit too fast a pace IMO but otherwise his set moves well and the modernized touches that his band comes up with fit in fine. Contrary to some of his very final recordings that somehow sound like not quite flesh nor fowl.

Edited December 14 by Big Beat Steve

[JSngry]

Hoss Allen:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_"Hoss"_Allen

The !!!! Beat:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_!!!!_Beat

The DVDs are crisp and clean and in full color. Gatemouth Brown leads the house band with aplomb. It's a true treasure.

[Big Beat Steve]

Thanks - those links make the Hoss Allen connection (via "Black" Nashvile) clear.