Editing Louis Jordan (section)

== Personal life ==
=== Marriages ===
Jordan was married five times. His first wife, Julia (also called Julie) was from [[Arkadelphia, Arkansas]]. Soon after their wedding, Julia gave birth to a daughter, Patty, who turned out to be another man's child.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last1=Chilton |first1=John |title=Let the Good Times roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music |date=1997 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=047208478X |edition=1st paperback}}</ref>

In 1932, Jordan met Ida Fields, a Texas-born singer and dancer, in [[Hot Springs, Arkansas|Hot Springs]]. They married that year. Ida was six years his senior and a member of a traveling dance troupe called the Florida Orange Blossoms. Ida sued Jordan for bigamy in 1943. He claimed she was aware that he was still married. Ida was awarded a $70,000 judgment, later reduced to $30,000.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Koch |first1=Stephen |title=Louis Jordan: Son of Arkansas, Father of R&B |date=2014 |publisher=History Press |isbn=9781626194359}}</ref> She began billing herself as "Mrs. Louis Jordan, Queen of the Blues, and her Orchestra" before Jordan stopped it by stalling payments. In another court case, Ida was awarded a settlement of $50,000.<ref name=":0" />

In 1942, Jordan married his childhood sweetheart, Fleecie Moore. They later divorced. In 1947, Fleecie discovered Jordan was having an affair with dancer Florence "Vicky" Hayes and attacked him with a knife. She was arrested and charged with assault.<ref name=":1" /> Jordan married Vicky on November 14, 1951, in Providence, Rhode Island.<ref name=":0" /> They separated in 1960. 

He married Martha Weaver, a singer and dancer from St. Louis, in 1966.<ref name="encyclopediaofarkansas.net" /> Weaver being a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]], Jordan sometimes attended [[Mass in the Catholic Church|Mass]] with her on Sundays, though he was raised a [[Baptists|Baptist]].<ref name=":1" />

=== Financial problems ===
Jordan's popularity and success had waned by 1953. By that time, "rock 'n' roll had captured the world's attention, and Jordan's jumping R&B became a thing of the past". While he continued performing, this did not generate the level of income that million-selling recordings had provided.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://biography.yourdictionary.com/louis-jordan|title=Louis Jordan|website=Biography.yourdictionary.com|access-date=March 8, 2021}}</ref>

In 1961, the [[Internal Revenue Service]] filed an [[Tax lien|income tax lien]] against Jordan. As a result, he sold property well below its worth to pay off debts.<ref name="Home">{{cite web |title=Louis Jordan to Sell $71,000 Home for $30,000 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e7MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59 |access-date=March 13, 2020 |date=June 29, 1961 |publisher=Jet/Johnson Publishing Company |pages=59–}}</ref> Musician [[Ike Turner]] stated in his autobiography, ''[[Takin' Back My Name]]'', that he heard about his tax problems and contacted Jordan's booking agency in Chicago. Turner convinced the president of the company to send Jordan a check for $20,000. Jordan was unaware of this deed.<ref name="takin">{{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=Ike |last2=Cawthorne |first2=Nigel |title=Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner |date=1999 |publisher=Virgin |location=London |isbn=1852278501}}</ref>

Jordan wrote or co-wrote many of the songs he performed, but he did not benefit financially from them. Many of the hit songs he wrote, including "Caldonia", he credited to Fleecie Moore to avoid an existing publishing arrangement. Their marriage was acrimonious and short-lived. After their divorce, she retained ownership of the songs. However, Jordan may have taken credit for some songs written by others, he is credited as the co-writer of "Saturday Night Fish Fry", but Tympany Five pianist [[Bill Doggett]] claimed he wrote it.<ref>Visser, Joop. Liner notes for the boxed set ''Jivin' with Jordan'', p. 30.</ref>