HIT THAT JIVE, JACK

Created on 03/01/2003
Latest update on 14/01/2024

Artist: Skeets Tolbert & His Gentlemen Of Swing
Author: John Alston/Skeets Tolbert
Label: Decca
Year: 1940

Swing soloist; also wrote You're My Meat (Louis Jordan, Joe Jackson).

Covers:

1941:

King Cole Trio [most popular version]

1943:

Stan Kenton

1945:

Cecil Gant

1946:

Slim Gaillard [his Groove Juice Special (Hit The Jive Jack) is another song]

1955:

Boyd Bennett [Bill Haley sound-alike]

1994:

John Pizzarelli

1995:

Diana Krall [on Cole tribute]

2001:

Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings

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