Reconversion Blues

"Reconversion Blues" is a song attributed to Steve Graham and Fleecie Moore.

It was performed by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, recorded in October 1946, and released on the Decca label (catalog no.

[2] Recorded two months after the end of World War II, the lyrics refer to the post-war freedom to buy goods that weren't strictly rationed or unavailable during the World War II.

It reviews many of the newly available items, such as a new automobile, two-tone shoes, bacon, butter, cigarettes, nuts and bolts and screws, nylons for his baby, and most anything he chooses at the gas station.

Jordan biographer Stephen Koch noted that the granting of partial songwriting credit to Jordan's wife, Fleecie Moore, was part of "a publishing and tax dodge gone awry.