As a follow-up to yesterday's video link: Here's Louis Jordan and the Tympani Five performing "Caldonia" in a 1945 "soundie." (For those of you unfamiliar with the noun, "soundies" were the music videos of the forties, made to be shown primarily in jukebox-like devices.)
Mr. Jordan, who had a number of big hits, probably wrote the tune. I say "probably" because when it was first published, it was credited to his then-wife, who was not a songwriter…and anyway, he divorced her soon after when she stabbed him with a knife. That's never good in a marriage. Apparently, there are musicologists who think Jordan only wrote the lyrics and that someone else penned the music…but the point is that he made the song famous and sold an awful lot of records with it. Here he is…and I still don't get the part about "mop."