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| - "Doin' the Jive" is a 1938 song composed by Glenn Miller and pianist Chummy MacGregor. The song was released as a 78 single by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on Brunswick. Doin' the Jive was recorded for Brunswick on November 29, 1937, and released as Brunswick 8063 backed with a Big Band arrangement of Antonin Dvořák's 1894 "Humoresque" and as Vocalion 5131 backed with "Dipper Mouth Blues". The song features lyrics sung by Kathleen Lane and the band that introduced a new dance, "The Jive": "You clap your hands/And you swing out wide/Do the Suzie Q/Mix in a step or two/Put 'em all together/And you're doin' the jive". There is rap dialogue between Glenn Miller and Jerry "Buck" Jerome. The solos are by Jerry "Buck" Jerome on tenor sax and Irving Fazola Prestopnick, known as "Faz", on clarinet. A second version was released with Tex Beneke in the dialogue with Glenn Miller from a June 20, 1938 NBC radio broadcast from the Paradise Restaurant in New York City featuring Gail Reese on lead vocals. Glenn Miller biographer and confidant George T. Simon reviewed the song in the March, 1938 issue of Metronome magazine, describing it as "much swing, fun, and good Kitty Lane singing." The band contributes vocals along with Glenn Miller and Jerry Jerome. The song was arranged by Glenn Miller. "Doin' the Jive" was released on the following record labels as a 78 single and as an album or EP track: Brunswick 8062, Vocalion 5131, Okeh 5131, Conqueror 9489, Polygon 6001, Epic EG-7034 as a four track Extended Play or EP, Epic LG-1008, Philips (England) BBR 8072, Epic EG-1008, and Columbia (England) DB 8072. The Glenn Miller recording appears on the 1992 Sony compilation Evolution of a Band, The Glenn Miller Story, Vols. 1-2 on Avid, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra: 1935-1938, Classics, 2004, Community Swing, Vol. 2, 1937-1938, Naxos Jazz Legends, 2003, The Complete Early Recordings, Opus Kura, 2004, and the 2003 Sony various artists collection Jazz Legends: Swing and Big Bands. (en)
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