Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers
General information
Genre (s) Rock , medleys , pop , novelty
founding 1988 as Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers
Current occupation
John Pickles
Andrew Pickles

Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers were an English music project that had great success with medleys from oldies and party hits in the late 1980s .

Band history

Jive Bunny originally emerged from a music studio in Rotherham , England. The Music Factory is a father-and-son company run by John and Andrew Pickles and offers a DJ mix service that remixes old and current hits for DJs. In 1988 they put together a party mix that consisted of short excerpts of well-known rock'n'roll hits, timed and connected to the recurring melody of Glenn Miller's In the Mood .

Originally only intended for DJs, the track soon became so popular that the Pickles decided to release it as a single. After it had taken them six months to get the music rights to the pieces used, they named themselves Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers (supposedly after a friend's nickname) and released the mix in the summer of 1989 under the title Swing the Mood . A cartoon rabbit (English bunny) was also the trademark of the accompanying music videos.

The single immediately topped the charts in numerous countries, was number 1 in England, Germany and Austria and number 11 in the USA.

Due to their great success, they immediately followed up with another oldie mix entitled That's What I Like and that same year brought out a Christmas carol medley called Let's Party . Both singles also reached number 1 in Great Britain and thus Jive Bunny managed the rare achievement within a year with the first three singles to top the UK charts.

As a result, the English tried to keep the interest awake by not only mixing rock oldies, but also z. B. to Swing , Salsa or Cancan tried. Nevertheless, the idea quickly faded and by the end of 1991 they disappeared from the charts again. With ten singles and three albums, however, they were able to sell over 22 million records worldwide during that time.

From time to time John and Andrew Pickles still appear as Jive Bunny, but essentially they are limited to their recording and remixing studio in Rotherham.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1989 Jive Bunny - The Album DE14 (15 weeks)
DE 		AT5 (13 weeks)
AT 		CH3
platinum
platinum

(13 weeks)CH 		UK2
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum

(22 weeks)UK 		US26th
gold
gold

(18 weeks)US
with The John Anderson Band
1990 It's party time - AT26 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH14 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK23 (7 weeks)
UK 		-
1992 Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame - AT14 (7 weeks)
AT 		- - -
1998 Hop around the clock - - - UK76 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
Double album

More albums

  • 1996: Christmas Party - 40 Non-Stop Christmas Favorites (UK:goldgold)
  • 1998: Spectacular Chrismas Party
  • 2000: The Greatest Hits of the Year
  • 2000: Dancing Queen
  • 2000: Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers Plays Non-Stop ABBA Party
  • 2002: Ultimate Christmas Party (2 CDs, UK:platinumplatinum)
  • 2003: In the Mix (3 CDs)

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1994 The Best of Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers DE88 (4 weeks)
DE 		- CH44 (2 weeks)
CH 		- -

More compilations

  • 1994: … The Best !!
  • 1994: The Album / Swing the Mood
  • 1994: That's What I Like / It's Party Time
  • 1998: Rock the Party
  • 1999: Summer Holiday
  • 2009: Swing the Mood - The Definitive Collection (2 CDs)
  • 2009: Swing the Party
  • 2013: The Classic Megamixes

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1989 Swing the Mood
Jive Bunny - The Album 		DE1 (26 weeks)
DE 		AT1 (17 weeks)
AT 		CH2 (22 weeks)
CH 		UK1
platinum
platinum

(19 weeks)UK 		US11 (20 weeks)
US
That's What I Like
Jive Bunny - The Album 		DE6 (19 weeks)
DE 		AT5 (11 weeks)
AT 		CH4 (18 weeks)
CH 		UK1
gold
gold

(12 weeks)UK 		US69 (5 weeks)
US
Let's party DE80 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT26 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH13 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK1
gold
gold

(8 weeks)UK 		-
1990 That Sounds Good to Me DE36 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT19 (7 weeks)
AT 		CH19 (4 weeks)
CH 		UK4 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
Can You Can Party
It's Party Time 		- AT27 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH13 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK8 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
Let's swing again - AT27 (2 weeks)
AT 		- UK19 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
The Crazy Party Mixes - - - UK13 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
1991 Over to You John (Here We Go Again)
It's Party Time 		- - - UK28 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
Hot Summer Salsa
Hop Around the Clock 		- - - UK43 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party
Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party 		- - - UK48 (2 weeks)
UK 		-

More singles

  • 1989: It Takes Two, Baby (Liz Kershaw, Bruno Brookes and Jive Bunny with Londonbeat )
  • 1989: Lover's Mix
  • 1991: Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame

Composition of the most famous medleys

Swing the Mood (July 1989)

That's What I Like (October 1989)

Let's Party (December 1989)

  • among other things, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday / Wizzard ; Merry Xmas Everybody / Slade ; Another Rock and Roll Christmas / Gary Glitter

Others

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: Singles / Albums / UK / Billboard 200
  2. ↑ US albums: Joel Whitburn : Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 . Billboard Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 .
  3. ↑ a b c gold / platinum databases: CH UK US

Web links