''The Dirty Boogie'' is the third album from the swing band

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. The album is considered as the breakthrough for the band, with their first single being a cover of

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's "Jump Jive an' Wail", which Prima had made popular in 1956 and included in his album ''

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''. The release of the single came along after a Gap advertising campaign that featured Prima's original recording of the song. Each helped to propel the larger

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throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Seven of the album's tracks are covers of songs written and originally made popular between 1952 and 1962.

Structure and release

In addition to Prima's "Jump Jive An' Wail", covers include "This Old House" by

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, "Since I Don't Have You" by

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, "Nosey Joe" popularized by

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, and "As Long As I'm Singin'" by

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. " You're the Boss", penned by Leiber and Stoller in 1961, is the album's seventh track, a duet featuring singer (and labelmate)

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; an earlier popular recording of the tune paired

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and

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. The eighth track, "Rock This Town", is a cover of a song originally recorded in 1981 by Setzer's previous band, the

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. "Hollywood Nocturne" was a discarded track from Setzer's previous album, '' Guitar Slinger''. The album also features a cover of the instrumental "

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", made popular originally by songwriters and performers

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Farina in 1959. Setzer's arrangement won a

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the following year for best pop instrumental recording.

Album art

The illustration and logo for ''The Dirty Boogie'' was created by Sir Richard Wentworth, using techniques such as pen and ink linework and cut

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sheets. The album cover began life as a show poster designed by Wentworth to advertise a Brian Setzer Orchestra concert at Detroit's State Theater (currently

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). After Brian Setzer saw the poster, he commissioned Wentworth to reformat the poster and to create a new

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for the band. The angular, kinetic style employed in Wentworth's illustration sparked a trend of identifying the music of the

with the visual signifiers of the cartoon modern style (a type of dynamic, minimal design commonly used in 1950s and 1960s

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). Wentworth's

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logotype is still an essential part of the

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and has inspired a commercial

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called "Swinger". Wentworth also illustrated the covers for Setzer's '' Best of The Big Band'' (Japan Only CD), ''

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'' and ''Christmas Rocks!'' CDs, and designed the logo for ''The Ultimate Christmas Collection'' CD.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

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- guitar, vocals *Ernie Nunez, Tony Garnier - bass *

Bernie Dresel Bernard John Dresel Jr. (born November 12, 1961) is an American studio drummer and percussionist. He has been with multi-Grammy award-winning artists and recordings; most notably having performed and recorded extensively with The Brian Setzer Orc ...

- drums, percussion *Don Roberts, Ray Herrmann, Rick Rossi, Steve Marsh, Tim Misica - saxophone *George McMulen, Mark Jones, Michael Vlatkovich, Robbie Hioki - trombone *Dan Fornero, Dennis Farias, John Fumo, Kevin Norton - trumpet

Additional Musicians

– guest vocalist (track 7) *Mark W. Winchester – bass (track 7) *Eddie Nichols, Meghan Ivey – backing vocals (track 7) *Bob Parr – bass (track 12) *Roger Burn – piano (track 12) *Bob Sandman, George Shelby, Steve Fowler – saxophone (track 12) *Charlie Biggs, Stan Watkins – trumpet (track 12)

Technical

* Peter Collins – producer *

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– producer (track 12) *John Holbrook – engineer *Allen Sides – engineer (track 12) *Cliff Norrel, David Nottingham – assistant engineers *Brad Haehnel – assistant engineer (track 12)

Chart positions

Notes

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