 Louis Jordan and Ella Fitzgerald's duet, I'll Never Be Free, heard here, was released in 1950. Jordan did have his own solo hit ballads like Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby and Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'. But from 1942's What's the Use of Getting Sober through 1949's Saturday Night Fish Fry and beyond, party songs such as these, with often humorous themes, were how Louis Jordan's reputation was largely based.