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The hand jive is also featured prominently in the Broadway musical Grease (1971) through the song "Born to Hand Jive"; in the movie adaptation of the musical, the song is performed by Sha Na Na. On a DVD audio commentary for the movie, choreographer Patricia Birch mentions that the dance also went by the much more risque name " hand job ", but ...
"Willie and the Hand Jive" is a song written by Johnny Otis and originally released as a single in 1958 by Otis, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #5 on the Billboard R&B chart. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song has a Bo Diddley beat and was partly inspired by the music sung by a chain gang Otis heard while he was touring.
The soundtrack was released on April 14, 1978, two months ahead of the film's release. [1] As with most musicals of the period, the vocal takes recorded for the album release–and in some cases the instrumental background as well–do not lock to picture but were recorded during entirely different soundtrack sessions often months prior or subsequent to the performances used for lip sync in ...
In April 1958, he recorded his best-known song, "Willie and the Hand Jive", a clave-based vamp. It was a hit in the summer of 1958, peaking at number 9 on the U.S. Pop chart, and was Otis's only Top 10 single. The single reached number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart.
Their tracks on the film and Grease soundtrack include two songs from the original 1971 musical: "Those Magic Changes" and "Born to Hand Jive", and four songs from the early rock-and-roll era: versions of Elvis Presley's covers of "Hound Dog" (1956) and "Blue Moon" (1956), a cover of the Imperials' "Tears on My Pillow" (1958), and a cover of ...
He was the principal behind Otis' hit "Willie and the Hand Jive." [1] He remained in Otis’ band until 1959 when he formed his own group, The Jimmy Nolen Band. [6] They performed in small clubs and ballrooms in California and Arizona's "Chitlin' Circuit", backing many of the blues musicians that passed through California.
Hand Jive is a studio album by the jazz guitarist John Scofield, released in 1994. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It features veteran tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris , keyboardist Larry Goldings , bassist Dennis Irwin , percussionist Don Alias , and drummer Bill Stewart .
The second track to be released as a single was "Willie and the Hand Jive", which came out in October 1974. [22] Clapton slowed down the tempo for his version. Author Chris Welch believes that the song benefits from this "slow burn". [23] However, Rolling Stone critic Ken Emerson complains that the song sounds "disconcertingly mournful". [24]