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(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin’ Jive – Cab Calloway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep-jTUpOKEk
Cab Calloway recorded this track with his orchestra in 1939. It became the 2nd biggest his of his career, behind only “Minnie The Moocher“. In 1943 he performed it in this amazing clip from the musical Stormy Weather.
It went on to be covered quickly by The Andrews Sisters and Glenn Miller, later covered by Joe Jackson on his Jump Blues tribute album “Jumpin’ Jive”, as well as third wave swing revivalists Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It was even covered with a solo acoustic guitar in a lo-fi fashion by Beck on an early demo tape he recorded.
Personnel:
Written By: Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba & Jack Palmer
Vocals: Cab Calloway
Guitar: Danny Barker
Bass: Milt Hinton
Drums: Cozy Cole
Piano: Bennie Payne
Trumpet: Mario Bauza, Doc Cheatham, Lammar Wright, Irving Randolph, Claude Jones
Trombone: Claude Jones, Keg Johnson, DePriest Wheeler
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone: Chauncey Haughton
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone: Andrew Brown
Tenor Saxophone: Walter “Foots” Thomas, Chu Berry
Producer: Master Records, Inc. (?)
Record Label: Vocalion
Lyrics:
Releases
Original Release: Cab Calloway And His Orchestra – (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin’ Jive/Trylon Swing
Original Release Date: 1939.07.xx
Additional Releases:
1991 – The Chronological Cab Calloway And His Orchestra (1939-1940)
1996 – Jazz Greats, Vol. 12 – Cab Calloway: Minnie The Moocher
Live:
1943 – Stormy Weather
Covers:
1939 – Lionel Hampton
1939 – Van Alexander
1939 – The Andrews Sisters
1940 – Larry Breese And His Orchestra
1977 – The New Deal Rhythm Band
1981 – Joe Jackson
1982 – Stutz Bear Cats
1987 – The Blue Bird Society Orchestra
1990 – Beck
2009 – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
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