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Jordan Jive

Jordan Jive

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Jordan Jive

1944

0h 3m

7.0(1 votes)

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Louis Jordan's Orchestra perform Jordan Jive. Setting is a canteen, with the orchestra and audience in US military uniform. The Swing Maniacs go through some extremely strenuous acrobatic dancing.

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Louis Jordan

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Swing Maniacs

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Directed by: John C. Graham

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