Let the Good Times Roll (Louis Jordan song)

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"Let the Good Times Roll"
Single by Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
B-side"Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens"
ReleasedDecember 1946[1]
RecordedNew York City, June 26, 1946
GenreJump blues
Length2:45
LabelDecca
Songwriter(s)Sam Theard, Fleecie Moore
Official audio
"Let the Good Times Roll" on YouTube

"Let the Good Times Roll" is a jump blues song recorded in 1946 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. A mid-tempo twelve-bar blues, the song became a blues standard and one of Jordan's best-known songs.[2]

  1. ^ "Record Reviews". Billboard. December 7, 1946. p. 29.
  2. ^ Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). "Let the Good Times Roll". Encyclopedia of the Blues. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. p. 458. ISBN 1-55728-252-8.