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Cartoons were a part of the magazine, starting with Sad Sack , the hapless private who was "drafted" into the magazine in May and featured until he and the magazine were "formally discharged" in The Jazz was brought in the form of G. The Pin-Up Girls were important on the Radio as well. For the first or so episodes both credited and uncredited disc jockeys were used.

After episode the primary DJ would be "G. Jill", the air-alias of Martha Wilkerson. When she made the move to AFRS it was without her husband, much to the delight of her many listeners. Jill received a quarter of the fan mail. On one episode she pauses, saying she had bumped "that darn jukebox" and had a run in her stockings, "Does anyone know where I can get some silk stockings? Jill was sometimes thought to be an answer to Tokyo Rose.

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In actuality the G. She was a piece of home, and her records were better than Tokyo Rose 's. Wilkerson recorded for G.


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Jive six days a week. The program was broadcast over short-wave for Africa and Parts of Europe, and transcribed onto disks that were distributed to the Pacific over a "mosquito network.

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You have reached the maximum number of votes for a unregistered user. The younger Jordan was skilled enough on his horn to find work in New York during the early '30s, recording behind Louis Armstrong and Clarence Williams before joining drummer Chick Webb's orchestra in he was showcased on Webb's Rusty Hinge. Louis left Chick's employ in , ready to lead the first incarnation of his Tympany Five he was playing clarinet as well as alto sax in those days.

Jordan rallied the troops with his Ration Blues and G. Written by Claude De Metruis alleged co-author Fleecie Moore was Jordan's wife; he'd soon divorce her after she attacked him with a knife, losing a lot of compositional royalties he'd assigned to her in the process and cut January 23, in New York, the humorous romp saw Louis' band expand to six with the addition of guitarist Carl Hogan.

Pianist Wild Bill Davis keeps the track driving, but it's Hogan's fluid boogie underpinning that gets the witty number rocking.


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Chuck Berry has long cited Hogan as a main influence and cut his own version of the song nearly two decades later; Fats Domino and Lloyd Price made convincing renditions as well. Sadly, like many of his peers, Jordan got left behind during the rock and roll revolution he helped spark. He was still performing until shortly before his February 4, death.

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