Jive Bunny And The MasterMixers – Swing The Mood (12″ Version)

“Swing The Mood” was Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers’ start of a successful musical career, and it was their first single and a megamix to Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood,” a popular big band-era jazz standard of the 1950s and 60s.

After its release in 1989, the song encountered copyright issues and had to be reinterpreted. The song was hugely successful, selling millions of copies and peaking at #1 in 12 countries.

Fun Facts:

• “Swing The Mood” was written by songwriter Jive Bunny and produced by Les Hemstock and Andy Pickles. The song is from their debut album, The Album, created in 1989.

• It was produced by the father-son DJ team of Andy and John Pickles.

• “Swing The Mood” is traditionally played on Bloomington, Indiana, Radio station every Friday morning at 7:15 local time; it’s the “Friday Fun Song.”

• Jive Bunny and the Mastermixes had three #1 hits—” Swing the Mood,” “Let’s Party,” and “That’s What I Like.” All three of these songs utilized synthesizers to turn popular Rock n Roll songs into medleys.

• “Swing The Mood” features Glenn Miller’s song “In the Mood,” “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets, “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard, and “Wake Up, Little Susie” by the Everly Brothers.

• Jive Bunny was represented by a cartoon character in all the band’s music videos and promotional appearances. Bunny was the face of the band.

• The hit release was a worldwide phenomenon; it topped the charts in 12 other countries, and in the US Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at #12.

• “Swing The Mood” was the UK’s best-selling hit single of 1989.

Lyrics 

Come on everybody

Come on everybody

One-two-one-two

One-one-one-one-one

One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock

Five, six, seven o’clock, eight o’clock rock

Nine, ten, eleven o’clock, twelve o’clock rock

We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight

Put your glad rags on and join me hon

We’re gonna have some fun when the clock strikes one

We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight

We’re gonna rock rock rock until the broad daylight

We’re gonna rock gonna rock around the clock tonight

Rock, rock, rock everybody

Roll, roll, roll everybody

Rock, rock, rock everybody

Roll, roll, roll everybody

Rock, rock, rock everybody

Rockin’ with the ??? beat

W-w-w-w-wake up, little Suzie, wake up

Wake up, little Suzie, wake up

We’ve both been sound asleep

Wake up little Suzie and weep

The movie’s over it’s four o’clock

And we’re in trouble deep

Wake up little Suzie

Wake up little Suzie

We gotta go home

You ain’t nothing but a hound dog

Cryin’ all the time

You ain’t nothing but a hound dog

Cryin’ all the time

Well you ain’t never caught a rabbit

And you ain’t no friend of mine

Shake-shake-shake-shake, rattle and roll

I said shake, rattle and roll

I said shake, rattle and roll

I said shake, rattle and roll

A-well-a bless my soul

What’s wrong with me?

I’m itching like a man

On a fuzzy tree

My friends say I’m acting

Wild as a bug

I’m in love

I’m all shook up

The warden threw a party in the county jail

The prison band was there and they began to wail

The band was jumping and the joint began to swing

You should’ve heard them knocked out jailbirds sing

Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the Jailhouse Rock

A-ah-ah-ah

A-ah-ah-ah

A-ah-ah-ah

At the hop, hop, hop-hop-hop