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    • Jul 8, 1908
    Jazz and blues musician Louis Jordan is born in Brinkley, Arkansas. He lands three songs on the Billboard country chart when the magazine establishes the list in 1944
    Oct 4, 1943
    Louis Jordan records "Ration Blues," "Deacon Jones" and "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)." All three titles appear on early versions of the Billboard country charts
    Nov 25, 1943
    Decca releases Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five's double-sided hit: "Ration Blues" backed with "Deacon Jones." Both titles appear on the Billboard folk list, a predecessor to the country charts
    Feb 26, 1944
    R&B musician Louis Jordan tops an early version of the Billboard country singles chart with "Ration Blues"
    Apr 13, 1944
    Decca releases Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five's "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)." The song lands on Billboard's recently debuted folk chart, destined to become a country list
    Jul 29, 1944
    Louis Jordan's "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)" rises to #1 on an early version of the Billboard country singles chart
    Feb 4, 1975
    Jazz and blues musician Louis Jordan dies following a heart attack in Los Angeles. Jordan landed three different titles on the Billboard country singles chart during 1944, the list's first year of existence
    Jan 21, 1987
    The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame adds Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Rick Nelson, Jackie Wilson, Leiber & Stoller, Carl Perkins, Clyde McPhatter, Louis Jordan, Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, Joe Turner, Eddie Cochran, B.B. King, Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin during a ceremony at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
    Dec 19, 1995
    TVT releases the "Grumpier Old Men" soundtrack, featuring Johnny Cash's "Understand Your Man." Also on the album: Dean Martin, The Bee Gees, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan and Nat King Cole
    Dec 22, 1995
    The Walter Matthau-Jack Lemmon movie "Grumpier Old Men" debuts. Johnny Cash's "Understand Your Man" and "Ring Of Fire" are used in the picture, along with music by Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and The Bee Gees
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