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"Saturday Night Fish Fry" is a jump blues song written by Louis Jordan and Ellis Lawrence Walsh, [2] best known through the version recorded by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five. [3] The recording is considered to be one of the "excellent and commercially successful" examples of the jump blues genre.
Saturday Night Fry is a six-part comedy series on BBC Radio 4 that was broadcast between 30 April and 4 June 1988. The first episode had previously been broadcast as a pilot on 19 December 1987. [1] A different show of the same name aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1998, again hosted by Fry.
His "Saturday Night Fish Fry" fell into the jump blues genre [6] but is viewed by some as a precursor to rock and roll. In fact, Chuck Berry once commented about Jordan: He was "the first person I heard play rock and roll". [7] Jordan's last recordings were made for the French Black & Blue label in 1973 and issued as I Believe in Music. The ...
The Blues Foundation hints that Jordan was a precursor to R&B: "Louis Jordan was the biggest African-American star of his era and that his "Caldonia" reached "the top of the Race Records chart, as it was known prior to being called Rhythm & Blues in 1949". [45] Chuck Berry said that he modeled his musical approach on Jordan's. [46]
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A tradition has developed towards the end of the 20th century for tourists in Oistins to join with locals at the Friday night (and slightly quieter Saturday night) Fish Fry and "lime" (social gathering), which sees many food and drink stalls selling fried fish meals and local craft, all to the accompaniment of loud music, while older ...
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Let the Good Times Roll (Louis Jordan song) R. Ration Blues; ... Saturday Night Fish Fry This page was last edited on 26 November 2023, at 18:54 (UTC). ...