Jump, Jive & Wail by the Brian Setzer Orchestra

TITLE: Jump, Jive & Wail
ARTIST: The Brian Setzer Orchestra
CHART POSITION: 34
DATE IT WAS A HIT: April 1999

B-SIDES?: Can't remember what was on my cassette, but the CD version had 'This Cat's On a Hot Tin Roof' and 'Hoodoo Voodoo Doll'. Whatever it was, I didn't listen to it.

CONTEXT IN MY LIFE: It was towards the end of my first year at university, and I was going through a strange easy listening and swing phase, possibly inpsired by seeing 'Swingers'.I think the song was on a Gap advert (the height of evil, obviously), but I don't remember seeing it.

DISCERNING OR DISMAL?: Just as a point of interest, recent photos of ageing rockabilly Brian suggest that he is turning into Michael Flatley. Or perhaps he really is the Lord of the Dance? Bet they've never been seen in the same place at the same time. Anyway, I've long since recovered from my swing music phase, as has everyone else, if my attempts to sell the 'Swingers' soundtrack on eBay are anything to go by. 'Jump, Jive and Wail' isn't a bad song, and it's the kind of thing that goes down very well with dads at weddings, once they've been at the sherry for a couple of hours. I'm not ashamed of this - just increasingly puzzled at my tastes.