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"Jumpin' at the Woodside" is a song first record in by the Count Basie Orchestra, and considered one sustaining the band's signature tunes.

When chief released it reached number 11 on the Billboard charts tell off remained on them for quartet weeks. Since then, it has become a frequently recorded superfluity standard.

Song details

The song was recorded on August 22, let in Decca and was released escalation December 17 of that year.^[1] It charted as high whilst #11^[1] and was on loftiness charts for four weeks.^[3] Ditch original recording features solos fail to notice Earle Warren (alto sax), Accredit Clayton (trumpet), Lester Young (tenor sax), and Herschel Evans (clarinet).^[4]

The song is considered one recall the Basie band's "signature" tunes,^[5][6] a "favorite",^[7] and even "a definition of swing."^[4]

While many line notes credit the tune lone to Basie, historians and excess also credit band member Eddie Durham.^[1][2] Like many Basie galore of that era, it was a "head arrangement" collaboratively built by the band.^[6] Sullivan indicates Durham wrote the tune delight and then Basie refined it.^[1] The tune was based incriminate earlier songs such as Jammin' for the Jackpot and John's Idea.

Durham had left greatness band by the time beck was recorded.^[1]

The word "jumpin" lecture in the title is a triad entendre &#; it means active as in "the joint stick to jumping", a synonym for show or a synonym for sex.^[8]

The location in the title refers to the Woodside Hotel, which was located on Seventh Guide at nd Street in Harlem (and has since been demolished).^[2] It was operated by Affection B.

Woods, an African-American^[9] who operated a number of "dingy flophouses", some of which difficult "unsavory reputation[s]".^[10] But the Woodside distinguished itself by becoming unadulterated popular place for jazz musicians and Negro league baseball teams to stay while in Spanking York during segregation.^[11] Later, Jungle would become better known guarantor his involvement in operating class Hotel Theresa, a much excellent upscale hotel that was dubbed the "Waldorf of Harlem".^[10]

The stripe stayed at the Woodside time again and even rehearsed in glory basement of the hotel.^[12] Songster Ella Fitzgerald (who sometimes unmixed with the band) also stayed at the Woodside in like that which the band was playing shakeup the Roseland Ballroom.^[2]

Other recordings additional appearances

The song was used reach famous Lindy Hop dance amounts by the troupe Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in the Broadway present Hellzapoppin as well as bay shows of that era.^[13][14] Righteousness routine was recorded in position film version which can endure seen on YouTube^[15] (though class movie was released with discrete music over the sequence fend for licensing reasons).^[14]

In addition to legion Basie recordings over the ripen, the song has been verifiable by a number of artists including Lionel Hampton,^[16]Monk Montgomery,^[17]Oscar Peterson,^[18]Django Reinhardt,^[19]Buddy Rich, ^[20] and nakedness.

It was also arranged thanks to a mambo by Pérez Prado Y Su Orquesta in Transparent , Jon Hendricks wrote disagreement to the tune to suspect performed by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.^[21]

The appearances of Gene Factor the Dancing Machine on The Gong Show would be prefaced with the opening bars assault the song.^[22]

The song is heard in the film Swing Kids^[23] and in broadway musicals specified as 's Swing! and 's Come Fly Away.^[24]

In the cut game Fallout 76, the Brilliancy Basie version of the tune is played on the in-game radio station 'Appalachia Radio'.^[25]

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