<Dd> So let the good times roll, let the good times roll </Dd> <Dd> Don't care if you're young or old, get together let the good times roll </Dd> <P> The song was written by Sam Theard, a New Orleans - born blues singer and songwriter, and was co-credited to Fleecie Moore, Jordan's wife, who never wrote a lyric in her life (however, her name was sometimes substituted for Jordan's to get around an inconvenient publishing contract; this strategy backfired when Louis and Fleecie divorced acrimoniously and she kept ownership of the songs he'd put her name on--thus denying him any income from them). Jordan and the Tympany Five performed the song in the 1947 film Reet, Petite, and Gone, although the studio recording rather than a live performance is used in the soundtrack . </P> <P> "Let the Good Times Roll" reached number two in the Billboard R&B chart in 1947 . Its A-side, "Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens", was the top number one record of 1947--both songs spent nearly six months in the chart . In 2009, the song was acknowledged with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 2013 in the "Classic of Blues Recording--Singles or Album Tracks" category . </P>

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