Jumpin' Jive

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra recorded Jumpin' Jive on 17 July 1939, and it became one of the big records of the swing era, reaching number two and selling over a million copies. Calloway performed it with the Nicholas Brothers' famous staircase dance in the 1943 film Stormy Weather. The song is a showcase for hep-talk, the jive slang Calloway made a style of its own.

Jackson's version, the seventh track on Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive, was recorded at Basing Street in May 1981 with his seven-piece swing band and released as a single in June, credited to the band name, with Knock Me a Kiss on the B-side. It reached forty-three in Britain and thirty-two in New Zealand. The band played it through the 1981 tour and Jackson kept it in his sets into the late 1980s; setlist.fm logs the last performance at Ahoy in Rotterdam in November 1989. A live version is on Live 1980/86.

The upload in the hypersongs web is the remastered edition A&M issued when the late-1990s swing revival brought the album back into print.