"Jumping Jive" (also known as "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive") is a famous

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/ swing composition,

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Cab Calloway Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the Swing music, swing era. His niche ...

, Frank Froeba, and Jack Palmer. Originally recorded on 17 July 1939, on

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, it sold over a million copies and reached #2 on the Pop chart. Calloway performs the song with his orchestra and the

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in the 1943

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'' Stormy Weather''."Jumpin' Jive"
(video) sung by Cab Calloway and danced by Nicholas Brothers in ''Stormy Weather'' (1943)

Joe Jackson version

"Jumpin' Jive" was covered by new wave artist Joe Jackson (under the band name Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive) on his 1981 album of the same name. The album, originally conceived as "a few pub gigs for a laugh," also featured other jump-blues tracks, including Calloway's "We the Cats (Shall Hep Ya)." After its release on ''Jumpin' Jive'', Jackson's version was later released as a single, where it charted at #43 in Britain.

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Other covers

It has been recorded notably by

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, and

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."Jumpin' Jive"
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