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In the course of the forties no fewer than eighteen titles by Louis Jordan climbed to the top of Billboard's rhythm & blues charts. The singer-saxophonist had become the number 1 Atro-American star, way ahead of Nat King Cole or Ella Fitzgerald, and he'd been nicknamed the ''king of the juke boxes''. What was his recipe? The man himself put it this way, somewhat mischievously: ''Say a few magic works like abracadabra, mumbo-jumbo, si-boum-ba, etc...mix it up...shake it real strong...say a little prayer...record your song and listen; what you get is a hit like Choo-Choo-Ch'Boogie''. Quite forgotten today, Louis Jordan was in fact the biological father of rhythm'n'blues; probably he even fathered a kind of rock'n'roll, although he never recognized the latter...40 total tracks. Nocturne. 2005.