+Bob Ruhe out of curiosity do you remeber how well received the album was by people?

Well it was completely different than any of his other stuff. Most people want the new to sound like the old. Fair to say it bombed in the states but that's because he was ironically way ahead of his time bringing the old stuff back. I think it's his best work.

id agree with you with that

Bob Ruhe it certainly was a completely different musical direction for him,just for one album and seemed to be favourably embraced here by the reviewers,commentators,DJs,etc. I'm not sure exactly how well the album did commercially but I got to hear it off one of our lodgers downstairs who used to play me his music whenever I dropped in.

Better late than never, not sure where you guys are, but here in the UK in the late 70s early 80s the charts saw lots of 50s style rocknroll rockabiily hits, very popular, my scene entirely. Joe Jacksons was from Portsmouth uk, his first single was a huge pop hit in 1979. "Is She Really Going Out with Him ?" made Top 20 around the world, and Joe followed it with another Top 5 song a few months later. Both songs were in the New Wave style of Elvis Costello, but def not rock n roll. By 1981 Joe had changed direction completely, and he recorded an album of swing and jump-blues standards from the 40s and early 50s. Joe’s new group and their album were called “Joe Jackson’s Jumpin Jive”, after the Cab Calloway song. By happy coincidence, Cab’s original version was recorded in mid July, 1939, and sold over a million copies. Joe Jackson’s cover, the single off the album, made Number 43 in UK in mid July, 1981. I was aged 19, heard “Jumpin Jive” on BBC radio and like many others then discovered the originals by the likes of Calloway and Louis Jordan. Joe moved to New York, and is still very active in the swing and jazz fields, as recently as 2012 his latest album topped the U.S. Modern Jazz chart.

Ich auch damals! Herrlich, einfach herrlich!

J'ai toujours adoré ce mec, une sensibilité et une énergie de fou. Un être magnifique. Amour total pour lui.

El nombre lo escribi mal y es : LOUIS JORDAN