#Jump January 27

by Coach4aday · January 27, 2025

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For January 2025, several of us are taking part in the 30-Day Song Lyrics Coach4aday Challenge. Each day we utilize a theme and post the song lyrics from a song that connects the two. Today my theme is on jump or stomp and my song is JUMP JIVE an’ WAIL.

My choice today is a 1956 jazz swing song written and performed by Louis Prima titled “Jump Jive an’ Wail “. I first heard this song when The Gap used Prima’s version in a “Khakis Swing” commercial in 1998. To say that Prima had an influence on American music is an understatement. His music lives on today in cinema and TV shows.

The song first appeared on his album The Wildest! and became one of his signature songs. Keely Smith, Prima’s wife at that time, was one of the backup singers on the song. The song also won a Grammy in 1999 for The Brian Setzer Orchestra for Best Pop Performance . The sax intro to the song is fantastic.

Song Lyrics 30-Day Challenge Guidelines

Like previous challenges there are no hard and fast rules to participate. There are a few suggested guidelines

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, and explain, if necessary, why it connects to your daily theme.
Please try to include the songwriters
Link to a video so people can listen to the song

January 27th-Theme-Jump-Song-Jump Jive an’ Wail

One interesting thing I learned about Louis Prima was his love of golf. He built his own golf course in 1970 and called it Warm Spring Country Club but it was dubbed the “Fairway to the Stars”. The Las Vegas NV course closed in the 1970’s.