Ebony Jump by Candy Johnson

"Ebony Jump" by Candy Johnson is featured in episode 5 of American Horror Story! http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/american-horror-story/music/season-4/episode-5#2

Also featured in the new film GET ON UP. The life story of James Brown.

Available on iTunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sweet-as-candy-ep/id366532813
Availble on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/0oGES3OQ1WlyaKG9y2e3vm

As the first songs released on Danceland Records, Candy Johnson's Stampin and Ebony Jump not only heralded the labels creation in November, 1948; the double-sided 78 rpm single marked the labels first regional hit, crossing-over and attracting large numbers of both white and black record buyers in the midwest. Johnson was in his early 30s and had been living in Detroit for years by the time he met Kaplan in the late 1940s. The good-natured saxophonists three piece band had established a strong reputation in the Paradise Valley scene. Joined by pianist Stubby Jackson, Johnson & Co. cut tracks for Danceland during two recording sessions in September/October 1948. The sessions took place in the living room of Kaplans home Candy Johnsons four tracks on Danceland Years capture the rollicking sax-based instrumental sound that made him Dancelands best selling artist. The Stampin success story epitomizes the freewheeling nature of the record industry in the late 1940s, when a single could be pressed and on store shelves within a mere three weeks after the original recording session! In those days things were a lot different, Kaplan admits. You could walk in on a jockey in the studio and he'd play the record. Apparently, the strategy worked: achieving hit status in Detroit and Chicago, Stampin eventually sold 60,000 copies, an impressive showing for a small, local independent label, but one which Danceland was unable to match during its next three years of existence.

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