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Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - Stone Cold Dead In The Market

Posted by Pan Times on December 5, 2013 at 3:03am
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"Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming)" is a 1946 song with words and music by Wilmoth Houdini, a Trinidad and Tobago musician who had moved to the United States. It was recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five on Decca and later included in the Ella Fitzgerald album Ella and Her Fellas. The single was the first of five singles that Louis Jordan would take to the number-one spot on the R&B Juke Box chart.[1] The song also reached number seven on the U.S. pop chart.[2] The B-side of the single, "Petootie Pie", was also an R&B chart hit peaking at number three. This song received later notoriety in the 2010s with the 2011 release of L.A. Noire in which this song is featured.

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  • Noel December 2, 2014 at 10:02pm

    This is great! Giwe more! giwemore!

  • Ayesha Mohammed December 18, 2013 at 7:34pm

    Historic! Keep them coming WST! Thank U

  • Glenroy R Joseph December 6, 2013 at 11:51am

    And I must mention that as a Trini ex-pat calypsonian who became successful in New York, Houdini was, in true Trini fashion, attacked by calypsonians back home for not being authentic enough.

    Today, he would be considered one of us, a "foreign" Trini :)

  • terry December 6, 2013 at 11:41am

    A very popular tune during the 1940s, '50s and 60s. Recorded by several artists to include: MacBeth The Great,

    Maya Angelou and Jimmy Smith.....Keep digging deep Pan Times. 

  • paddy corea December 6, 2013 at 10:31am

    in my musical annals  Louis Jordan and the Tympani Five were the FIRST  R&B or (MODERN) musical band. He was before Little Richard and Chuck Berry and way before Ray Charles who copied some of his stuff, and long before the socalled New Orleans sound and all the rest.  paddy corea

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