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Each track used a sampled instrumental theme to join the old songs together, in much the same way as dance music megamixes. "Swing the Mood" began with Glenn Miller 's " In the Mood " (a recording from 1939), followed immediately by rhythmic re-editing of Bill Haley and His Comets ' " Rock Around the Clock ", Little Richard 's " Tutti Frutti ...
Jiving in a British dance hall, 1945. To the players of swing music in the 1930s and 1940s, jive was an expression denoting glib or foolish talk. [2] American soldiers brought Lindy Hop/jitterbug to Europe around 1940, where this dance swiftly found a following among the young. In the United States, "swing" became the most common word for the ...
The hand jive was popularized in the States by Johnny Otis's "Willie and the Hand Jive", described as a "funky blues rendition in a Bo Diddley styling" and "another approach to the growing Stateside interest in the British originated hand dance." [6] This song exhibited the Bo Diddley beat, a rhythm that originated in Afro-Latin music and was ...
"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.
"Jump, Jive an' Wail" is a 1956 jazz swing song by Louis Prima. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It first appeared on his album The Wildest! and became one of his signature songs . [ 3 ]
Modern Jive is a dance style derived from swing, Lindy Hop, rock and roll, salsa and various other dance styles, the main difference being the simplification of footwork by removing syncopation such as chasse. The term "French Jive" is occasionally used instead, reflecting the origins of the style, as is the term "Smooth Jive".
This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .
"Swing the Mood" is a song by British novelty pop music act Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, released as the first single from their debut album, Jive Bunny: The Album (1989). Produced by the father and son DJ team of Andy and John Pickles, "Swing the Mood" is a cut and paste record which fused a number of early rock and roll records with ...