Jumpin' Jive - Playlist

pustelniakr · Dec 1, 2020

Let's do another treasure hunt, playable playlist. This one will be rather tough as not many artists are producing tunes in this genre these days, but, when they do, it is superb.

Again, as usual with my playlists, this is intended to be a playable playlist, so please make sure that your posts are playable. Also, this is not intended to be a discussion thread, so please keep that to a very dull roar.

How about some serious jive folks.

Here is what I am talking about...

Joe Jackson, "San Francisco Fan"

Enjoy,
Rich P

flyz51 · Dec 3, 2020

pustelniakr said:
Let's do another treasure hunt, playable playlist. This one will be rather tough as not many artists are producing tunes in this genre these days, but, when they do, it is superb.

How about some serious jive folks.

Here is what I am talking about...

Joe Jackson, "San Francisco Fan"

Enjoy,
Rich P

Great, fun album. I played it for my parents who recognized most of the songs on the album. My mother commented that the grammar teachers hated the Cab Calloway tune for it's insistently atrocious mangling of proper English. When I played it for a college friend who swore up and down that he detested jazz, he couldn't keep from singing along to the chorus of "Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't My Baby", that same Cab Calloway tune.

pustelniakr · Dec 3, 2020

flyz51 said:
Great, fun album. I played it for my parents who recognized most of the songs on the album. My mother commented that the grammar teachers hated the Cab Calloway tune for it's insistently atrocious mangling of proper English. When I played it for a college friend who swore up and down that he detested jazz, he couldn't keep from singing along to the chorus of "Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't My Baby", that same Cab Calloway tune.

Normally, I don't go for two tunes from the same album right away. But you have incited me, and this is the most inciteful of what we are looking for now.

Joe Jackson, "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby"

Enjoy,
Rich P

flyz51 · Dec 3, 2020

Wynonie Harris - Bloodshot Eyes
1951

I think the first time I heard this tune it was Asleep The Wheel covering it on their first album (not really sure if it was their first album but that was in the early/mid 70's)