Jive Bunny And The ... - "Swing The Mood"

... Mastermixers, that is.

The 45 version is made up of samples of a bunch of '50s and '60s hits. More precisely, the samples are samples of the actual hits from the '50s and '60s. The US 45 version was apparently the same as the UK 45 version, and it turns up on the British Now That's What I Call Music 15 compilation (Virgin EMI Polygram UK CD NOW 15, 1989), with an actual running time of 4:04.

I thought I could recreate the 45 by editing down the LP version from The Album (Atco/Music Factory 7 91322-2, 1989), but the LP version has some of the sampled songs rerecorded! It appears that the Jive Bunny people couldn't get the rights to "Rock Around The Clock" and a few others for the full CD, so they rerecorded the segments they needed. Either that, or they decided that the relatively low-fi sound of some of the '50s tracks needed a sonic upgrade - somehow, I doubt this scenario.

A similar situation happened two years earlier in 1987 for "Pump Up The Volume"; the samples are different in the US and the UK due to licensing issues. And the Stars On 45 tracks also vary, depending on country.

For giggles, you might want to hear the "Swing The Mood" version on a British compilation called The Ultimate Party Animal (Global Records RADCD47, 1996) - it's 100% rerecorded from scratch, including the looped drum line. Really awful, and unintentionally hilarious. It's also billed just to "Jive Bunny", who had presumably left the Mastermixers for a solo career...

Really? I bought the cassette single back in the day and at least the Elvis cuts were not original, and that's the version they played on the radio where I was at the time.

vanmeter wrote: Really? I bought the cassette single back in the day and at least the Elvis cuts were not original, and that's the version they played on the radio where I was at the time.

Yes, I think you're right that even the 45 version does not contain ALL original versions of the hits. But the LP version contains more re-recordings than the 45 version does.

In regards to Elvis' "Jailhouse Rock," I've never tried to slow it down to the same pitch of the original recording, but my guess would be that even if you did, it wouldn't be the original recording. In the Jive Bunny song, it's pitched up almost to the point of sounding like the Chipmunks.

Pat, I just noticed that you updated the info for the Jive Bunny follow-up #69 1990 BB chart entry, "That's What I Like" into the db, under "Swing The Mood", by mistake. I was just trying to answer a "piggy back" Jive Bunny question that Eriejwg had raised, about Jive Bunny's obscure follow-up chart entry inside one of the earlier posts. But to assist you here, Pat, I have just pulled my actual promo CD single for "Swing The Mood" (PR-3039-2), and here are the ACTUAL details for that Jive Bunny #11 BB hit song:

1-Swing The Mood (Radio Mix) (listed 4:05; actual 4:03)
2-Swing The Mood (12" Mix) (listed 6:00; actual 6:09)
3-Glenn Miller Medley (listed 3:55; actual 3:47)

I should have a 45 in my hands for "Swing The Mood." Have listened to Ed's correct 45 version and will be able to compare if they are the same when my 45 arrives.