{"id":7634,"date":"2016-02-18T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2016-02-18T02:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T09:04:55","slug":"louis-and-louis-armstrong-and-jordan-louies-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=7634","title":{"rendered":"Louis and Louis &#8211; Armstrong and Jordan &#8211; LOUIES of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louie-armstrong-jordan.jpg\" alt=\"Louie Armstrong + Louie Jordan\" width=\"810\" height=\"406\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louie-armstrong-jordan.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louie-armstrong-jordan-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louie-armstrong-jordan-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louie-armstrong-jordan-400x200.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, we share a special song featuring two very important LOUIEs of the 20th Century &#8211; <strong>Louis Armstrong<\/strong> and <strong>Louis Jordan<\/strong>! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louis-armstrong-louis-jordan-life-is-so-peculiar-brunswick-78.jpg\" alt=\"louis-armstrong-louis-jordan-life-is-so-peculiar-brunswick-78\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louis-armstrong-louis-jordan-life-is-so-peculiar-brunswick-78.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louis-armstrong-louis-jordan-life-is-so-peculiar-brunswick-78-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louis-armstrong-louis-jordan-life-is-so-peculiar-brunswick-78-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/louis-armstrong-louis-jordan-life-is-so-peculiar-brunswick-78-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDMMeDOj2wc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IDMMeDOj2wc\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/IDMMeDOj2wc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The song is &#8220;Life is So Peculiar,&#8221; recorded by two musical superstars of 1950 &#8211; trumpeter Louis Armstrong and alto saxophonist Louis Jordan for the Decca label in August 1950.<\/p>\n<p>This was their second recorded duet.  Their first duet was the song &#8220;You Rascal You&#8221; recorded in 1932, when Jordan was part of the Armstrong band&#8217;s sax section.<\/p>\n<p>This second recording came about almost 20 years later, when they were both very successful solo recording artists that happened to be signed to Decca Records.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc Myers<\/strong> wrote glowingly of this this collaboration for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2016\/01\/armstrong-and-jordan-two-sides.html\">JazzWax.com website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two sing, swing and engage in vocal repartee, with Jordan at one point doing an imitation of Armstrong&#8217;s scatting on Life Is So Peculiar, which was written by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen. On You Rascal You (written by Sam Theard), Armstrong and Jordan have a knee-slapping time exchanging lyrics. Armstrong blows beautiful harmony lines behind a singing Jordan while Jordan blows cool lines when it&#8217;s Armstrong&#8217;s turn to &#8220;talk about it for a while.&#8221; The joy is relentless and infectious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENJOY!<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to Marc for writing about this ditty.  Be sure to check out his original article at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2016\/01\/armstrong-and-jordan-two-sides.html\">http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2016\/01\/armstrong-and-jordan-two-sides.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we share a special song featuring two very important LOUIEs of the 20th Century &#8211; Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! https:\/\/youtu.be\/IDMMeDOj2wc The song is &#8220;Life is So Peculiar,&#8221; recorded by two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22,16,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-pop-culture","category-record-collecting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}